Births
- January 1 - Xavier Cugat, bandleader (d. 1990)
- January 6 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (d. 1936)
- January 13 - Yasuji Kiyose, Japanese composer (d. 1981)
- February 13 - Wingy Manone, U.S. jazz musician (d. 1982)
- March 2 - Kurt Weill, German composer. (d. 1950)
- March 10 - Peter De Rose, US composer (d. 1953)
- April 2 - Anis Fuleihan, Cypriot-born US composer (d. 1970)
- April 8 - Gavriel Mullokandov, Bukharian Jewish singer and musician (died 1972)
- April 11 - Kai Normann Andersen, Danish composer (died 1967)
- April 23 - Henry Barraud, French composer (died 1997)
- May 17 - Nicolai Berezowsky, Russian composer (died 1953)
- My 27 - Leopold Godowsky, Jr., American violinist and chemist (died 1983)
- May 28 - Tommy Ladnier, jazz musician (died 1939)
- June 15 - Paul Mares, jazz musician (died 1949)
- June 24 - Gene Austin, US singer and composer (died 1972)
- July 8 - George Antheil, composer (died 1959)
- July 10
- Evelyn Laye, English actress and singer (died 1996)
- Mitchell Parish, US lyricist (died 1993)
- July 13 - George Lewis, jazz musician (died 1968)
- July 29 - Don Redman, US arranger, bandleader and saxophonist (died 1964)
- August 2 - Helen Morgan, US singer and actress (died 1941)
- August 8 - Lucius "Lucky" Millinder, US bandleader (died 1966)
- August 22 - Váša Příhoda, Czech violinist (died 1960)
- August 23 - Ernst Krenek, composer (died 1991)
- September 3 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (died 1959)
- September 7 - Joan Cross, operatic soprano (died 1993)
- October 9 - Elmer Snowden, banjo player (died 1973)
- October 19 - Erna Berger, coloratura soprano (died 1990)
- November 14 - Aaron Copland, composer (died 1990)
- November 25 - Arthur Schwartz, US composer (died 1984)
- November 27 - Robert Blum, Swiss composer (died 1994)
- December 12 - Sammy Davis, Sr., vaudeville entertainer (died 1988)
- December 14 - Juan d'Arienzo, tango musician (died 1976)
- December 17 - Lucijan Marija Škerjanc, Slovene composer, pedagogue and conductor (died 1973)
- December 29 - B. H. Haggin, music critic (died 1987)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)