Editing 1912 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[January 4]] – [[Noro Morales]], Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader (died 1964)
*[[January 7]] – [[Günter Wand]], German conductor and composer (died 2002)
*[[January 8]] – [[Arkady Filippenko]], composer (died 1983)
*[[January 11]] – [[Emiliano Zuleta]], [[vallenato]] composer, accordion player and singer (died 2005)
*[[February 2]] – [[Burton Lane]], US composer (died 1997)
*[[February 3]] – [[Mary Carlisle]], actress and singer (died 2018)
*[[February 11]] – [[Rudolf Firkušný]], pianist (died 1994)
*[[February 19]] – [[Saul Chaplin]], film score composer and arranger (died 1997)
*[[February 27]] – [[Eliška Kleinová]], pianist and music teacher (died 1999)
*[[March 11]] – [[Xavier Montsalvatge]], composer and music critic (died 2002)
*[[March 14]] – [[Les Brown (bandleader)|Les Brown]], US bandleader (died 2001)
*[[March 15]] – [[Lightnin' Hopkins]], blues musician (died 1982)
*[[March 24]] – [[Sari Biro]], pianist (died 1990)
*[[March 27]] – [[Robert Hughes (composer, born 1912)|Robert Hughes]], composer (died 2007)
*[[April 2]] – Herbert Mills of the [[Mills Brothers]] singing quartet (died 1989)
*[[April 7]] – [[Jack Lawrence (songwriter)|Jack Lawrence]], American composer (died 2009)
*[[April 5]] – [[Carlos Guastavino]], composer (died 2000)
*[[April 17]] – [[Marta Eggerth]], singer and actress (died 2013)
*[[April 22]] – [[Kathleen Ferrier]], contralto (died 1953)
*[[April 24]] – [[Renato Cellini]], conductor (died 1967)
*[[May 3]] – [[Virgil Fox]], organist (died 1980)
*[[May 10]] – [[Adrian Aeschbacher]], pianist (died 2002)
*[[May 13]] – [[Gil Evans]], jazz pianist and bandleader (died 1988)
*[[May 18]] – [[Perry Como]], singer (died 2001)
*[[May 23]] 
**[[Jean Françaix]], composer (died 1997)
**[[William Vacchiano]], trumpeter (d. 2005)
*[[May 31]] – [[Alfred Deller]], singer (died 1979)
*[[June 6]] – [[Robert Levin (Norwegian pianist)|Robert Levin]], pianist (died 1996)
*[[June 9]] 
**[[Edgar Evans (tenor)|Edgar Evans]], operatic tenor (died 2007)
**[[Buddy Feyne]], lyricist and composer (d. 1998)
*[[June 15]] – [[Oscar Natzka]], New Zealand opera singer (d. [[1951 in music|1951]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Taonga|first=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu|title=Natzke, Franz Oscar|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4n3/natzke-franz-oscar|access-date=2020-08-24|website=teara.govt.nz}}</ref>
*[[June 17]] – [[Don Gillis (composer)|Don Gillis]], conductor and composer (died 1978))
*[[June 28]] – [[Eleazar de Carvalho]], conductor and composer (died 1996)
*[[July 4]] – [[Fritz Schulz-Reichel]], jazz pianist (died 1990)
*[[July 5]]
**<!--July 5--->[[Mack David]], songwriter (died 1993)
**<!--July 5--->[[Ilona Massey]], actress and singer (died 1974)
*[[July 14]] – [[Woody Guthrie]], folk singer (died 1967)
*[[July 16]] – [[Amy Patterson]], Argentine composer, singer, poet, and teacher (died 2019)
*[[July 17]] – [[Irene Manning]], actress and singer (died 2004)
*[[July 27]] – [[Igor Markevitch]], composer (died 1983)
*[[August 9]] – [[Anne Brown]], US soprano, first Bess in ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' (died 2009)
*[[August 13]] – [[Francesco Albanese]], operatic tenor (died 2005)
*[[August 20]] – [[Niyazi]], conductor and composer (died 1984)
*[[August 21]] – [[Natalia Dudinskaya]], ballerina (died 2003)
*[[August 23]] – [[Gene Kelly]], dancer, singer and actor (died 1996)
*[[August 26]] – [[Léo Marjane]], born Thérèse Maria Léonie Gendebien, popular singer (died 2016)
*[[September 5]] – [[John Cage]], composer (died 1992)
*[[September 19]] – [[Kurt Sanderling]], conductor (died 2011)
*[[September 26]] – [[René Hall]], guitarist and arranger (died 1988)
*[[September 29]] – [[Beryl Wallace]], singer, dancer and actress (died 1948)
*[[September 30]] – [[Kenny Baker (American singer and actor)|Kenny Baker]], singer and actor (died 1985)
*[[October 7]] – [[Joseph Cooper (broadcaster)|Joseph Cooper]], pianist and broadcaster (died 2001)
*[[October 15]] – [[Nellie Lutcher]], jazz singer and pianist (died 2007)
*[[October 21]]
**<!--October 21--->[[Don Byas]], jazz musician (died 1972)
**<!--October 21--->Sir [[Georg Solti]], conductor (died 1997)
*[[October 24]] – [[Peter Gellhorn]], pianist, conductor and composer (died 2004)
*[[October 27]] – [[Conlon Nancarrow]], composer (died 1997)
*[[November 4]] – [[Vadim Salmanov]], Russian composer (died 1978)
*[[November 6]] – [[King Kolax]], jazz trumpeter (died 1991)
*[[November 11]] – [[Larry LaPrise]], creator of the "Hokey-Pokey" or "Hokey-Cokey" song and dance (died 1996)
*[[November 18]] – [[Jimmy Swan]], country musician (died 1995)
*[[November 21]] – [[Eleanor Powell]], dancer (died 1982)
*[[November 22]] – [[Chick Henderson (singer)|Chick Henderson]], singer (died 1944)
*[[November 29]] – [[Viola Smith]], American drummer (died 2020)
*[[November 30]] – [[Hugo del Carril]], actor and tango singer (died 1989)
*[[December 7]] – [[Daniel Jones (composer)|Daniel Jones]], composer (died 1993)
*[[December 10]] – [[Irving Fazola]], jazz clarinetist (died 1949)
*[[December 13]] – [[Luiz Gonzaga]], folk singer and songwriter (died 1989)
*[[December 23]] – [[Josef Greindl]], operatic bass (died 1993)
*[[December 25]] – [[Natalino Otto]], Italian singer (died 1969)
*[[December 28]] – [[Yuri Levitin]], Ukrainian composer (died 1993)
*[[December 29]] - [[Peggy Glanville-Hicks]], Australian composer (died 1990)
*[[December 30]] – [[Rosina Lawrence]], actress, singer and dancer (died 1997)
*''probable'' – [[Merline Johnson]], blues singer (died)