Editing 1929 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[January 3]] – [[Ernst Mahle]], Brazilian composer and conductor
*[[January 6]] – [[Wilbert Harrison]], American singer (died 1994)
*[[January 15]] – [[Lord Woodbine]] (Harold Adolphus Phillips), Trinidadian calypsonian (died 2000)
*[[January 22]] – [[Petr Eben]], Czech composer (died 2007)
*[[January 25]] – [[Violeta Hemsy de Gainza]], Argentine pianist and music teacher (died 2023)
*[[January 28]] – Mr [[Acker Bilk]], English jazz clarinetist (died 2014)
*[[February 4]] – [[Stanley Drucker]], American clarinetist (died 2022)
*[[February 10]] – [[Jerry Goldsmith]], composer for film and television (died 2004)
*[[March 4]] – [[Bernard Haitink]], violinist and conductor (died 2021)
*[[March 8]] – [[Ardis Krainik]], operatic mezzo-soprano and general director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago (died 1997)
*[[March 25]] – [[Cecil Taylor]], free jazz pianist (died 2018)
*[[March 26]] – [[Charles Dumont (singer)|Charles Dumont]], singer-songwriter (died 2024)
*[[April 1]] – [[Jane Powell]], singer and actress (died 2021)
*[[April 5]] – [[Joe Meek]], UK record producer (died 1967)
*[[April 6]] – [[André Previn]], pianist and conductor (died 2019)
*[[April 8]] – [[Jacques Brel]], Belgian singer-songwriter (died 1978)
*[[April 16]] – [[Roy Hamilton]], American singer (died 1969)
*[[April 17]] – [[James Last]], German bandleader (died 2015)
*[[April 29]]
** [[Halina Łukomska]], soprano (died 2016)
** [[Peter Sculthorpe]], composer (died 2014)
** [[April Stevens]], singer (died 2023)
*[[May 1]] – [[Sonny James]], country singer-songwriter (died 2016)
*[[May 2]] – [[Link Wray]], American guitarist (died 2005)
*[[May 3]] – [[Denise Lor]], singer (died 2015)
*[[May 11]] – [[Fernand Lindsay]], Canadian organist and educator (died 2009)
*[[May 16]] – [[Betty Carter]], jazz singer (died 1998)
*[[May 25]] – [[Beverly Sills]], operatic soprano (died 2007)
*[[June 2]] – [[Jimmy Bryant (singer)|Jimmy Bryant]], singer, arranger and composer (died 2022)
*[[June 6]] – [[Don Hassler]], American saxophonist and composer (died 2013)
*[[June 9]] – [[Johnny Ace]], R&B singer (died 1954)
*[[June 23]] – [[June Carter Cash]], singer-songwriter, wife of [[Johnny Cash]] (died 2003)
*[[June 26]]
**[[June Bronhill]], operatic soprano (died 2005)
**[[Josima Feldschuh]], Polish pianist and composer of Jewish origin (died [[1943 in music|1943]])
*[[June 27]] – [[Jarmila Šuláková]], folk singer (died 2017)
*[[June 30]] – [[Othmar Mága]], German conductor (died 2020)
*[[July 3]] – [[Pedro Iturralde]], composer (died 2020)
*[[July 9]] 
**[[Lee Hazlewood]], American singer-songwriter and record producer (died 2007)
**[[Jesse McReynolds]], American singer and mandolin player ([[Jim & Jesse]])
*[[July 15]]
**[[Charles Anthony (tenor)|Charles Anthony]], American tenor (died 2012)
**[[Francis Bebey]], Cameroonian-French guitarist (died 2001)
*[[July 18]] – [[Screamin' Jay Hawkins]], singer (died 2000)
*[[August 4]] – [[Vellore G. Ramabhadran]], Mridangam performer from Tamil Nadu, India (died [[2012 in music|2012]])
*[[August 12]] – [[Buck Owens]], singer and guitarist (died 2006)
*[[August 16]] – [[Bill Evans]], jazz pianist (died 1980)
*[[August 24]] – William Winfield, doo-wop singer ([[The Harptones]])
*[[September 13]] – [[Nicolai Ghiaurov]], operatic bass (died 2004)
*[[September 28]] – [[Lata Mangeshkar]], playback singer (died 2022)
*[[October 2]] – [[Kenneth Leighton]], composer (died 1998)
*[[October 12]] – [[Nappy Brown]], blues singer (died 2008)
*[[October 24]] – [[George Crumb]], composer (died 2022)
*[[October 26]] – [[Neal Matthews Jr.]], ([[The Jordanaires]]) (died 2000)
*[[November 7]] – [[Benny Andersen]], Danish author, poet and pianist (died [[2018 in music|2018]])
*[[November 8]] – [[Bert Berns]], songwriter record producer (died 1967)
*[[November 10]] – [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Marilyn Bergman]], songwriter (died 2022)
*[[November 11]] – [[LaVern Baker]], R&B singer (died 1997)
*[[November 12]] – [[Toshiko Akiyoshi]], jazz pianist
*[[November 15]] – [[Joe Hinton]], American soul singer (died 1968)
*[[November 18]] – [[Gianna D'Angelo]], American soprano and educator (died 2013)
*[[November 24]] – [[Eileen Barton]], singer (died 2006)
*[[November 26]] – [[Slavko Avsenik]], composer, musician and accordionist (died 2015)
*[[November 28]] – [[Berry Gordy Jr.]], record producer, founder of the [[Tamla Motown]] label
*[[November 30]] – [[Dick Clark]], host of ''[[American Bandstand]]'' (died 2012)
*[[December 4]] – [[Wilhelm Georg Berger]], composer (died 1993)
*[[December 6]] – [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]], conductor (died 2016)
*[[December 23]] – [[Chet Baker]], jazz trumpeter and singer (died 1988)
*[[December 25]]
** Bill Horton, doo-wop singer ([[The Silhouettes]]) (died 1995)
** [[Chris Kenner]], R&B singer-songwriter (died 1976)
*[[December 26]] – [[Régine Zylberberg]], discothèque pioneer (died 2022)
*[[December 27]] – [[Gyula Kovács (drummer)|Gyula Kovács]], Hungarian drummer (died 1992)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |author=Géza Gábor Simon |author2=Rainer E. Lotz |date=2003|entry=Kovács, Gyula  |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J251500}}</ref>