Editing 1924 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[January 1]] (nominal date) – [[Pino Rucher]], Italian guitarist (d. [[1996 in music|1996]])
*[[January 3]] – [[Nell Rankin]], operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 2005)
*[[January 6]] – [[Earl Scruggs]], banjo player (d. 2012)
*[[January 8]] – [[Ron Moody]], star of ''Oliver!'' (d. 2015)
*[[January 10]] – [[Max Roach]], jazz drummer (d. 2007)
*[[January 11]]
** [[Don Cherry (singer)|Don Cherry]], singer (d. 2018)
** [[Slim Harpo]], blues musician (d. 1970)
*[[January 16]] – [[Achille Togliani]], singer and actor (d. 1995)
*[[January 20]] – [[Slim Whitman]], country musician (d. 2013)
*[[January 25]] – [[Speedy West]], American guitarist and producer (d. 2003)
*[[January 29]] – [[Luigi Nono]], composer (d. 1990)
*[[February 2]] 
** [[Elfi von Dassanowsky]], Austrian-born U.S. musician/producer (d. 2007)
** [[Sonny Stitt]], jazz saxophonist (d. 1982)
*[[February 19]] – [[André Popp]], composer, arranger and screenwriter (d. 2014)
*[[February 22]] – [[Hassan Aziz Hassan]], Egyptian prince and pianist (d. 2000)
*[[February 26]] – [[Freda Betti]], French mezzo-soprano opera singer (d. 1979)
*[[February 27]] – [[Trevor Duncan]], English composer (d. 2005)
*[[March 3]] – [[Lys Assia]], born Rosa Schärer, Swiss singer, first winner of [[Eurovision Song Contest]] (1956) (d. 2018)
*[[March 8]] – [[Alan Dell]], BBC radio DJ (d. 1995)
*[[March 10]] – [[Angela Morley]], born Walter "Wally" Stott, light music composer, arranger and conductor (d. 2009)
*[[March 27]] – [[Sarah Vaughan]], jazz singer (d. 1990)
*[[April 14]] – [[Shorty Rogers]], jazz trumpeter (d. 1994)
*[[April 15]] – Sir [[Neville Marriner]], conductor and violinist (d. 2016)
*[[April 16]]
**<!--April 16-->[[Henry Mancini]], composer (d. 1994)
**<!--April 16-->[[Rudy Pompilli]], saxophonist ([[Bill Haley & His Comets]]) (d. 1976)
*[[April 20]] – [[Orlando DiGirolamo]], accordionist and pianist (d. 1998)
*[[April 21]] – [[Clara Ward]], gospel singer (d. 1973)
*[[April 28]] – [[Alakbar Taghiyev]], Azerbaijani composer and author (d. 1981)
*[[April 30]] – [[Sheldon Harnick]], lyricist (d. 2023)
*[[May 1]] 
** [[Big Maybelle]], R&B singer (d. 1972)
** [[Gamal Abdel-Rahim]], Egyptian composer (d. [[1988 in music|1988]])
*[[May 4]] – [[Tatiana Nikolayeva]], pianist, composer and teacher (d. 1993)
*[[May 10]] – [[Teddy Riley (trumpeter)|Teddy Riley]], jazz trumpeter (d. 1992)
*[[May 19]] – [[Sandy Wilson]], composer of ''The Boyfriend'' (d. 2014)
*[[May 22]] 
**<!--May 22-->[[Charles Aznavour]], French singer and songwriter (d. 2018)
**<!--May 22-->[[Claude Ballif]], French composer (d. 2004)
*[[May 25]] – [[Marshall Allen]]
*[[May 31]] – [[Ida Presti]], French classical guitarist (d. 1967)
*[[June 5]] – [[John Tooley]], English opera director and manager (d. 2020)
*[[June 5]] – [[Serge Nigg]], composer (d. 2008)
*[[June 20]] – [[Chet Atkins]], guitarist (d. 2001)
*[[June 21]] – [[Wally Fawkes]], jazz clarinettist and cartoonist (d. 2023)
*[[June 29]] 
**[[Ezra Laderman]], American composer (d. 2015)
**[[Flo Sandon's]], Italian singer (d. 2006)
*[[July 5]] – [[János Starker]], cellist (d. 2013)
*[[July 9]] – [[Pierre Cochereau]], organist, improviser, composer (d. 1984)
*[[July 13]] – [[Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)|Carlo Bergonzi]], operatic tenor (d. 2014)
*[[July 19]] – [[Al Haig]], jazz pianist (d. 1982)
*[[July 20]] – [[Mort Garson]], Canadian-American songwriter and composer (d. 2008)
*[[July 22]] – [[Margaret Whiting]], singer (d. 2011)
*[[July 28]] – [[Irving Burgie]] (aka Lord Burgess), composer (d. 2019)
*[[August 3]] – [[Connie Converse]], folk singer-songwriter (disappeared 1974)
*[[August 6]] – [[Ella Jenkins]], children's folk singer-songwriter (d. 2024)
*[[August 14]]
**[[Lee Adams]], lyricist
**[[Georges Prêtre]], French conductor (d. 2017)
*[[August 20]] – [[Jim Reeves]], country singer (d. 1964)
*[[August 28]] – [[Berislav Klobučar]], Croatian opera conductor (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.diepresse.com/3821211/dirigent-klobucar-im-alter-von-89-jahren-gestorben|title=Dirigent Klobucar in alter von 89 Jahren gestorben|date=13 June 2014|website=Die Presse|language=de|access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref>
*[[August 29]] – [[Dinah Washington]], singer (d. 1963)
*[[September 7]] – [[Hugh Aitken]], American composer (d. 2012)
*[[September 12]] – [[Ella Mae Morse]], singer (d. 1999)
*[[September 19]] – [[Ernest Tomlinson]], light music composer (d. 2015)
*[[September 20]] – [[Jackie Paris]], jazz singer (d. 2004)
*[[September 27]] – [[Bud Powell]], jazz pianist and composer (d. 1966)
*[[September 28]] – [[Rudolf Barshai]], conductor and violist (d. 2010)
*[[October 1]] (probable) – [[Roger Williams (pianist)|Roger Williams]], pianist (d. 2011)
*[[October 3]] – [[Joe Allison]], songwriter and country music executive (d. 2002)
*[[October 10]] – [[Buddy MacMaster]], American fiddler (d. [[2014 in music|2014]])
*[[October 12]] – [[Erich Gruenberg]], Austrian-British violinist (d. [[2020 in music|2020]])
*[[November 14]] – [[Leonid Kogan]], violinist (d. 1982)
*[[November 16]] – [[Michèle Auclair]], violinist and teacher (d. 2005)
*[[November 25]] – [[Paul Desmond]], jazz saxophonist (d. 1977)
*[[November 30]]
** [[Klaus Huber]], composer (d. 2017)
** [[Allan Sherman]], musical parodist (d. 1973)
*[[December 7]] – [[Bent Fabric]], Danish composer and pianist (d. 2020)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Seelye |first=Katharine Q. |date=July 29, 2020 |title=Bent Fabric, Pianist and Composer Known for 'Alley Cat,' Dies at 95 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/arts/music/bent-fabric-dead.html |access-date=July 29, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[December 24]] 
** [[Lee Dorsey]], singer (d. 1986)
** [[Mohammed Rafi]], Indian [[playback singer]] (d. [[1980 in music|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nagendra Kr Singh|title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: Muh-R|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhJuAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation|isbn=978-81-7648-234-9|page=481}}</ref>
*[[December 25]] – [[Noël Lee]], classical pianist and composer (d. 2013)