Editing 1895 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[January 7]] – [[Clara Haskil]], pianist (died [[1960 in music|1960]])
*[[January 27]] – [[Buddy De Sylva]], songwriter (died [[1950 in music|1950]])
*[[February 7]] – [[Irving Aaronson]], jazz pianist and big band leader (died [[1963 in music|1963]])
*[[February 28]] – [[Guiomar Novaes]], Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
*[[March 4]] – [[Bjarne Brustad]], Norwegian composer and violinist (died [[1978 in music|1978]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Bjarne Brustad |encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|first=Elef |last=Nesheim |editor=[[Knut Helle|Helle, Knut]]|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Bjarne_Brustad/utdypning |language=Norwegian|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref>
*[[March 23]] – [[Dane Rudhyar]], composer (died 1985)
*[[March 31]] – [[Lizzie Miles]], singer (died [[1963 in music|1963]])
*[[April 1]] – [[Alberta Hunter]], singer (died 1984)<ref>{{cite book|title=Down Beat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMUJAQAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Maher Publications|page=22}}</ref>
*[[April 3]]
**[[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], composer (died [[1968 in music|1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicolas Slonimsky|title=Music Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5PlAAAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=W.W. Norton, Incorporated|page=446}}</ref>
**[[Zez Confrey]], pianist and composer (died 1971)
*[[April 9]] – [[Mance Lipscomb]], popular singer (died [[1976 in music|1976]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Gray|title=Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jwUwAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-0-8264-5150-7|page=38}}</ref>
*[[April 23]] – [[Jimmie Noone]], jazz musician
*[[April 29]] – Sir [[Malcolm Sargent]], conductor (died [[1967 in music|1967]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Reid|title=Malcolm Sargent: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1c8AAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Hamilton|isbn=978-0-241-91316-1|page=12}}</ref>
*[[May 1]] – [[Leo Sowerby]], composer (died [[1968 in music|1968]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Lorenz Hart]], US lyricist (died [[1943 in music|1943]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Caryl Brahms|author2=Ned Sherrin|title=Song by Song: The Lives and Work of 14 Great Lyric Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vaMHAQAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=R. Anderson Publications|isbn=978-0-86360-013-5|page=236}}</ref>
*[[May 6]] – [[Rudolph Valentino]], dancer and actor (died [[1926 in music|1926]])
*[[May 11]] – [[William Grant Still]], composer (died 1978)
*[[June 16]] – [[Lew Pollack]], US composer (died [[1946 in music|1946]])
*[[June 21]] – [[Mark Reizen]], Soviet opera singer (died [[1992 in music|1992]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Record Collector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PzxGAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Record Collector|page=5}}</ref>
*[[June 28]] – [[Kazimierz Sikorski]], Polish composer (died [[1986 in music|1986]])<ref>[https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/kazimierz-sikorski Kazimierz Sikorski] {{in lang|pl}}</ref>
*[[July 4]] – [[Irving Caesar]], US lyricist and librettist (died [[1996 in music|1996]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZsYAAAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-0744-1|page=76}}</ref>
*[[July 5]] – [[Gordon Jacob]], English composer (died 1984)
*[[July 10]] – [[Carl Orff]], German composer (died 1982)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Morris|title=A Guide to 20th-century Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-45601-4|page=191}}</ref>
*[[July 12]] 
** [[Kirsten Flagstad]], Norwegian soprano (died [[1982 in music|1982]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Record Collector: A Magazine for Collectors of Recorded Vocal Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Vs5AQAAIAAJ|year=1962|page=20}}</ref>
** [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], lyricist (died [[1960 in music|1960]])
*[[July 13]] – [[Bradley Kincaid]], folk singer (died [[1989 in music|1989]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Steve Evans|author2=Ron Middlebrook|title=Cowboy Guitars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vPK-cbGMpiUC&pg=PA13|date=June 2002|publisher=Centerstream Publications|isbn=978-1-57424-102-0|pages=13}}</ref>
*[[July 25]] – [[Yvonne Printemps]], singer and actress (died 1977)<ref>{{cite book|title=Recorded Sound|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWI5AQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=British Institute of Recorded Sound|page=309}}</ref>
*[[August 6]] – [[Ernesto Lecuona]], Cuban composer (died 1963)
*[[August 10]] – [[Harry Richman]], US singer, actor and composer (died [[1972 in music|1972]])
*[[August 13]] – [[Bert Lahr]], vaudeville performer (died [[1967 in music|1967]])
*[[September 9]] – [[Harry Tobias]], US lyric writer (died [[1994 in music|1994]])
*[[September 16]] – [[Karol Rathaus]], Austrian (Ukrainian) composer (died 1954)
*[[September 22]] – [[Herbert Janssen]], German baritone (died 1965)
*[[October 11]] – [[Jakov Gotovac]], Croatian composer and conductor (died 1982)
*[[October 12]] – [[Tubby Hall]], jazz drummer (died [[1945 in music|1945]])
*[[October 17]] – [[Doris Humphrey]], dancer (died [[1958 in music|1958]])
*[[October 29]] – [[Harry Ruby]], songwriter (died [[1974 in music|1974]])
*[[November 5]] – [[Walter Gieseking]], German pianist and composer
*[[November 16]] – [[Paul Hindemith]], German composer (died [[1963 in music|1963]])
*[[November 28]]
**[[José Iturbi]], pianist (died [[1980 in music|1980]])
**[[Jacobo Rubalcaba]], Cuban musician and bandleader (died [[1960 in music|1960]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Busby Berkeley]], film director, choreographer (died [[1976 in music|1976]])
*[[November 30]] – [[Johann Nepomuk David]], composer (died [[1977 in music|1977]])
*[[December 2]] – [[Harriet Cohen]], pianist (died [[1967 in music|1967]])
*[[December 16]] – [[Andy Razaf]], composer, poet and lyricist (died [[1973 in music|1973]])