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Birthdays
- Manuel Durão ()
- Christopher Shaver (26 February)
- Nathan Towns (23 October)
Dying days
- Domingo Santa-Cruz-Wilson (6 January)
- Dmitri Kabalevsky (16 February)
- Karl Höller (14 April)
- Phyllis (Margaret) Tate (29 May)
- Sebastiano Caltebiano (7 June)
- Alexander Lazarevich Lokshin (11 June)
- Henk Badings (26 June)
- Federico Mompou (30 June)
- Vincent Persichetti (14 August)
- Morton Feldman (3 September)
- Wolfgang Fortner (5 September)
- Gunnar de Frumerie (9 September)
- Hans Gál (3 October)
- Karel Albert (4 October)
- Rodolfo Halffter (14 October)
Music events
- Premiere of the violin concerto, in Berlin, Germany. (19 February) → Friedrich Schenker
- Premiere of Die Hamletmaschine, in Mannheim, Germany. (4 April) → Wolfgang Rihm
- Premiere of La Forêt, in Geneva, Switzerland. (11 April) → Rolf Liebermann
- First performance of "Gryning vid Örnvägen 52", in S. Sandby, Sweden. (25 April) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Un Jardin de Passacaille, in Montpellier, France. (6 July) → Henri Pousseur
- Premiere of Taurhiphanie, in Arles, France. (13 July) → Iannis Xenakis
- Premiere of Der Gestiefelte Kater, in Munich, Germany. (18 July) → Albert Biales
- Premiere of Pavane pour un Génie Vivant, in Montpellier, France. (23 July) → Jean Françaix
- Premiere of Oresteia II, in Gibellina, Italy. (21 August) → Iannis Xenakis
- Premiere of Symphony V, in Berlin, Germany. (17 September) → Isang Yun
- Premiere of Der Rattenfänger, in Graz, Austria. (27 September) → Friedrich Cerha
- Premiere of Ein Apokalyptisches Fragment, in Berlin, Germany. (27 September) → Aribert Reimann
- Premiere of Oedipus, in Berlin, Germany. (4 October) → Wolfgang Rihm
- Premiere of Risonanze Erranti a M. Cacciari (final version), in Paris, France. (8 October) → Luigi Nono
- Premiere of Music for Three (second version), in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (1 November) → John Cage
- Premiere of Europeras 1 and 2, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (15 November) → John Cage
- First performance of "Ouvertura piccolino", in Malmö, Sweden. (25 November) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of “Staub” for orchestra, in Saarbrücken, Germany. (19 December) → Helmut Lachenmann
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