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Birthdays
- Joseph Trapanese ()
- Lukáš Sommer (11 January)
- Andrew Griffiths (23 January)
- Samy Moussa (1 June)
- Alexander Campkin (26 June)
- Seann Branchfield (2 August)
- Matthew Dewey (12 October)
- M. Scott Johnson (15 November)
Dying days
- Paul Ben-Haim ()
- Piet Ketting ()
- Fikret Amirov (20 February)
- Georgios Kasassoglou (2 June)
- Gordon Jacob (8 June)
- Marinus de Jong (13 June)
- Wladimir Vogel (19 June)
- Randall Thompson (9 July)
- Marko Tajčević (19 July)
- Hermann Schröder (1) (7 October)
- Alexander Moyzes (20 November)
Music events
- Premiere of Hymn to a Great City, in New York, USA. (10 March) → Arvo Pärt
- Premiere of Echnaton, in Stuttgart, Germany. (24 March) → Philip Glass
- Premiere of Starlight Express, in London, England. (27 March) → Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Premiere of The Mask of Time, in Boston, USA. (6 April) → Michael Tippett
- First performance of the original version of "3 Stämningar, in Lund, Sweden. (29 June) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Un Re in Ascolto, in Salzburg, Austria. (7 August) → Luciano Berio
- Premiere of Laboratorium for 10 instruments, in Toronto, Canada. (21 September) → Vinko Globokar
- Premiere of Répons (extended version), in Turin, Italy. (22 September) → Pierre Boulez
- Premiere of Die Gespenstersonate, in Berlin, Germany. (25 September) → Aribert Reimann
- Premiere of Polish Requiem, in Stuttgart, Germany. (28 September) → Krzysztof Penderecki
- Premiere of Voci, in Basel, Switzerland, with Berio conducting. (26 October) → Luciano Berio
- Premiere of Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung), in Paris, France. (12 November) → Helmut Lachenmann
- Premiere of Symphony no. 7, in Berlin, Germany. (1 December) → Hans Werner Henze
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