Births
- January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
- February 7 - Eubie Blake, jazz pianist and composer
- February 23 - Oskar Lindberg, composer (d. 1955)
- March 3 - Hart Wand, composer, fiddler, bandleader
- March 4 - Violet MacMillan, Broadway star
- March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
- March 7 - Heino Eller, composer (d. 1970)
- March 22 - Chico Marx, piano-playing comedian
- March 23 - Anthony van Hoboken, musicologist
- March 25 - Nicolae Bretan, opera composer
- April 10 - Heinz Tiessen, composer (died 1971)
- May 12 - Bertha Lewis, operatic contralto
- June 25 - George Abbott, US librettist and director
- July 2 - Marcel Tabuteau, oboist
- July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, composer (d. 1951)
- August 25 - Fartein Valen, composer
- September 14 - Paul Kochanski, violinist
- September 16 - Nadia Boulanger, composer, conductor and music teacher (d. 1979)
- September 19 - Rosita Marstini, dancer
- October 6 - Maria Jeritza, operatic soprano
- October 11 - Oscar Shaw, actor and singer
- November 1 - Max Trapp, composer (died 1971)
- December 6 - Joseph Lamb
- December 7 - Ernst Toch, composer
- December 8 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, musicologist and composer
- December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, composer (d. 1974)
- December 24 - Lucrezia Bori, operatic soprano
- December 27
- Gertie Gitana, music hall singer
- Bernard van Dieren, composer (died 1936)
- date unknown
- Carlo Jachino, composer
- Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
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