Editing 1894 in music (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 3]] – [[Benito Canónico]], Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
* [[January 31]] – [[Isham Jones]], American bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
* [[February 1]] – [[James P. Johnson]], American jazz pianist and composer. 
* [[February 11]] – [[Alfonso Leng]], Chilean dentist and part-time classical composer (d. 1974)
* [[February 20]] – [[Jimmy Yancey]], American jazz pianist
* [[April 3]] – [[Dooley Wilson]], African American pianist and singer (d. 1953)
* [[April 15]] – [[Bessie Smith]], American blues singer (d. 1937)
* [[April 27]] – [[Nicolas Slonimsky]], Russian-born American conductor and composer (d. 1995)
* [[May 10]] – [[Dimitri Tiomkin]], Russian-born American film music composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1979)
* [[May 29]] – [[Beatrice Lillie]], Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
* [[June 1]] – [[Percival Mackey]], English pianist, film music composer and bandleader (d. 1950)
* [[June 4]] – [[La Bolduc]] (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
* [[June 10]] – [[Punch Miller]], American Dixieland jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
* [[July 10]] – [[Jimmy McHugh]], American songwriter and pianist (d. 1969)
* [[August 15]] – [[Harry Akst]], American songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
* [[August 26]] – [[Arthur Loesser]], pianist and musicologist (died 1969)
* [[September 3]] – [[Marie Dubas]], French music-hall singer  (d. 1972)
* [[September 18]] – [[Willard Robison]], American songwriter and bandleader (d. 1968)
* [[September 25]] – [[J. Mayo Williams]], African American blues music producer (d. 1980)
* [[September 26]] – [[Vaughn De Leath]], American crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (d. 1943)
* [[December 31]] – [[Ernest John Moeran]], British composer (d. 1950)