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Birthdays
- Thorsten Wollmann (10 February)
- Yves Bondue (1 March)
- Sebastian Baptiste Huydts (11 March)
- Stephen Lias (18 March)
- Roberto Carnevale (15 June)
- Giovanni Grosskopf (12 July)
- Juan María Solare (11 August)
- Michio Shirasawa (14 August)
- Alla Zagaykevych (17 December)
Dying days
- Hermann Scherchen ()
- Alexis Roland-Manuel (2 January)
- Pierre Mercure (29 January)
- Algot Haquinius (6 February)
- Boris Vladimirovich Savel’ev (3 May)
- Ricardo Castillo (23 May)
- Arthur Meulemans (29 June)
- Herman Galynin (18 July)
- Apolinary Szewto (22 August)
- Arthur Vincent Lourié (13 October)
- Quincy Porter (12 November)
- Vittorio Giannini (28 November)
- Yuri Shaporin (9 December)
- Gaspar Cassadó (24 December)
Music events
- Premiere of the St. Luke Passion, in Münster, Germany. (30 March) → Krzysztof Penderecki
- Premiere of Nouvelles Aventures, in Hamburg, Germany. (26 May) → György Sándor Ligeti
- Premiere of Die Brücke von San Luis Rey, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (29 May) → Hermann Reutter
- Premiere of Die Bassariden, in Salzburg, Austria. (6 August) → Hans Werner Henze
- Premiere of Antony and Cleopatra, in New York, USA. (16 September) → Samuel Barber
- Premiere of Die Flucht, in Zürich, Switzerland. (8 November) → Wladimir Vogel
- Premiere of Puntila, in Berlin, Germany. (15 November) → Paul Dessau
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