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Birthdays
- Aldo Brizzi ()
- António Chagas Rosa ()
- Edgar Meyer ()
- Fabio Cifariello Ciardi ()
- Fred Okorefe Kwaku Onovwerosuoke ()
- João Rafael ()
- Jostein Stalheim ()
- Katrina Wreede ()
- Lee Gannon ()
- Miguel Azguime ()
- Paula Azguime ()
- Ramona Luengen ()
- Aaron Jay Kernis (15 January)
- Alla Penkina (18 January)
- George Benjamin (31 January)
- Harold Colin Cowherd (2 February)
- Reine Jönsson (27 February)
- Dmitri Kapyrin (28 February)
- Robin Lamott (1 April)
- Andrew Ladd (4 April)
- Adil Zamani (5 May)
- Jan Rokus van Roosendael (6 May)
- Jos Smeets (17 May)
- Christiaan de Jong (21 May)
- Jody Nagel (29 May)
- Mary C. Wright (6 June)
- Marc Anthony Turnage (10 June)
- Hanspeter Kyburz (8 July)
- Ezequiel Viñao (21 July)
- Stefan Hakenberg (29 July)
- Karlheinz Essl (15 August)
- William Susman (29 August)
- Kevin Oldham (30 August)
- Detlev Glanert (6 September)
- Urmas Sisask (9 September)
- Annie Gosfield (11 September)
- Richard Tolenaar (1 October)
- William Maxwell (5 October)
- Jonathan FeBland (19 October)
- Paul Minotto (9 November)
- Piet Swerts (14 November)
- Guy Cuyvers (25 November)
- Osvaldo Golijov (5 December)
- Philippe Bodin (15 December)
- Michael Jones (24 December)
- José Mesquita Lopes (25 December)
- Kevin Kastning (26 December)
Dying days
- Jacob van Domselaer ()
- Launy Grondahl ()
- Matthew Hosenpud ()
- Rafael Peacan del Sar ()
- Luiz Costa (7 January)
- Rutland Boughton (24 January)
- Ernö von Dohnányi (9 February)
- Arthur Benjamin (10 April)
- Hugo Alfvén (8 May)
- Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (12 May)
- Charles Edward "C.E." Duble (0 August)
- Leó Weiner (13 September)
- Günter Raphael (19 October)
- Alfred Hill (30 October)
Music events
- Premiere of Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, in Middletown, USA. (25 February) → John Cage
- Premiere of Intolleranza, in Venice, Italy. (13 April) → Luigi Nono
- Premiere of Theater Piece, in New York, USA. (7 May) → John Cage
- Premiere of Der Prinz von Homburg, in Hamburg, Germany. (22 May) → Hans Werner Henze
- Premiere of A Midsummer Night's Dream, in Aldeburgh, England, with Britten conducting. (11 June) → Benjamin Britten
- Premiere of Kontakte für Elektronische Klänge, Klavier und Schlagzeug, in Cologne, Germany. (11 June) → Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Premiere of Pli selon Pli, in Cologne, Germany. (13 June) → Pierre Boulez
- Premiere of Anaklasis, in Donaueschingen, Germany. (16 October) → Krzysztof Penderecki
- Premiere of Camelot, in New York, USA. (3 December) → Carl Loewe
- Premiere of Dialogue for two pianos and large orchestra, in Cologne, Germany. (5 December) → Bernd Alois Zimmermann
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