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Birthdays
- Edward Luiz Ayres d’Abreu ()
- Anže Rozman (15 January)
- Edward Gonçalves Pinto (31 March)
- Jiaqi Chen (10 May)
- André Miranda (15 December)
Dying days
- Georgi Aleksandrovich Mushel ()
- Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo ()
- Valter Emil Aamodt ()
- Yasushi Akutagawa ()
- Jerzy Abratowski (28 January)
- Otar Taktakishvili (22 February)
- Cláudio Santoro (27 March)
- Matty [Jozef Mathieu] Niël (6 May)
- Eurico Thomaz de Lima (8 June)
- Henri Pierre Sauguet (21 June)
- Ernesto Esriche Halffter (5 July)
- Platon Mayboroda|Maiboroda (8 July)
- John Andrew Howard Ogdon (1 August)
- Roman Palester (25 August)
- Géza Frid (12 September)
- Irving Berlin (22 September)
- Virgil Thomson (30 September)
- Louis Barron (1 November)
- Vladimir Horowitz (5 November)
- Armando Gentilucci (12 November)
- Ján Cikker (21 December)
- Lennox Berkeley (26 December)
Music events
- Premiere of Answer without Question, collage for three orchestras, in Moscow, Russia. (4 January) → Sofia Gubaidulina
- Premiere of Spes contra Spem, in Bochum, Germany. (1 March) → Klaus Huber
- Premiere of One Hundred and One, in Boston, USA. (5 April) → John Cage
- Premiere of Symphony no. 4 (second version), in Moscow, Russia. (12 April) → Alfred Schnittke
- Premiere of Medea-Spiel, in Salzburg, Austria. (16 April) → Wolfgang Rihm
- Premiere of Aspects of Love, in London, England. (17 April) → Andrew Lloyd Webber
- First performance of "The Pen", in Grängesberg, Sweden. (26 April) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Ein Empfinsames Konzert für Kontrabaß, in Heidelberg, Germany. (29 April) → Kurt Schwertsik
- Premiere of Dr. Faustus, in Milan, Italy. (13 May) → Giacomo Manzoni
- Premiere of What Where, Frankfurt, Germany. (19 May) → Heinz Holliger
- Premiere of Sinfonia Tragica, in Munich, Germany. (20 May) → Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- First performance of "Don´t ever do that again!!!", in Helsingborg, Sweden. (23 May) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Miserere, in Rouen, France. (17 June) → Arvo Pärt
- Premiere of Heliogabalus Imperator (revised), in Rome, Italy. (28 June) → Hans Werner Henze
- Premiere of the clarinet concerto, in Lübeck, Germany. (9 July) → Edison Denisov
- Premiere of Graf Mirabeau, in Mannheim, Germany. (14 July) → Siegfried Matthus
- Premiere of Missa Non Est, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (27 August) → Wolfgang Rihm
- Premiere of symphony no. 4, in London, England. (10 September) → Peter Maxwell Davies
- First performance of "Hansson", in Lund, Sweden. (23 September) → Peter Wallin
- First performance of "Fanfare for Balaenoptera Musculus", in Lund, Sweden. (29 October) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Pro et Contra, in Louisville, USA. (3 November) → Sofia Gubaidulina
- Premiere of concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, in Hannover, Germany. (13 November) → Aribert Reimann
- Premiere of La Ville d'en-Haut, in Paris, France. (17 November) → Olivier Messiaen
- Premiere of Phantasiestück in C.'s Manier, in Vienna, Austria. (24 November) → Friedrich Cerha
- Premiere of Adagio, in Paris, France. (26 November) → Krzysztof Penderecki
- Premiere of Canticum Novissimi Testamenti II, in Paris, France. (18 December) → Luciano Berio
- Premiere of Antiphonies, in Paris, France. (18 December) → Pierre Boulez
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