Editing 1901 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[January 22]] – [[Hans Erich Apostel]], composer (d. 1972)
*[[February 2]] – [[Jascha Heifetz]], violinist (d. 1987)
*[[February 9]] – [[Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavathar]], Malayalam actor, singer and author (d. 1985)
*[[February 15]] – [[Kokomo Arnold]], blues musician (d. 1968)
*[[March 21]] – [[Nikos Skalkottas]], [[Greece|Greek]] composer (d. 1949)
*[[March 27]] – [[Enrique Santos Discépolo]], Argentinian tango musician, composer and writer (d. 1951)
*[[April 9]] – [[Arthur Briggs (musician)|Arthur Briggs]], jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
*[[May 7]] – [[Marcel Poot]], Belgian composer (d. 1988)
*[[May 12]] – [[Scrappy Lambert]], US singer (d. 1987)
*[[May 17]] – [[Werner Egk]], composer (d. 1983)
*[[May 21]] – [[Horace Heidt]], US bandleader (d. 1986)
*[[May 23]] – [[Edmund Rubbra]], composer (d. 1986)
*[[May 30]] – [[Frankie Trumbauer]], US saxophonist, bandleader and singer (d. 1956)
*[[June 6]] – [[Véra Korène]], actress and singer (d. 1996)
*[[June 10]] – [[Frederick Loewe]], composer of musicals (d. 1988)
*[[June 24]] – [[Harry Partch]], composer (d. 1974)
*[[June 29]] – [[Nelson Eddy]], US singer and actor (d. 1967)
*[[July 3]] – [[Ruth Crawford Seeger]], composer (d. 1953)
*[[July 14]] – [[Gerald Finzi]], English composer (d. 1956)
*[[July 16]] – [[Fritz Mahler]], Austrian conductor, a nephew of Gustav Mahler (d. 1973)
*[[July 28]] – [[Rudy Vallée]], singer & bandleader (d. 1986)
*[[August 4]] – [[Louis Armstrong]], jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, singer (d. 1971)
*[[August 11]] – [[Guido Agosti]],  Italian pianist and piano teacher (d. 1989)
*[[August 16]] – [[Olav Kielland]], Norwegian composer and conductor (d. 1985)
*[[August 17]] – [[Henri Tomasi]], French composer (d. 1971)
*[[September 2]] – [[Phil Napoleon]], jazz trumpeter (d. 1990)
*[[September 9]] – [[James Blades]], percussionist (d. 1999)
*[[September 12]] – [[Ernst Pepping]], composer (d. 1981)
*[[September 26]] – [[Ted Weems]], US bandleader (d. 1963)
*[[October 2]]
**[[Walther Aeschbacher]], Swiss conductor and composer (d. 1969)
**[[Alice Prin]] ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), entertainer (d. 1953)
*[[October 7]] – [[Ralph Rainger]], US composer and pianist (d. 1942)
*[[October 8]] – [[Eivind Groven]], composer (d. 1977)
*[[October 18]] – [[Annette Hanshaw]], US singer (d. 1985)
*[[October 20]] 
**[[Frank Churchill]], US composer (d. 1942)
**[[Adelaide Hall]], US singer, actress and entertainer (d.1993)
*[[November 1]] – [[Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt]] German composer (d. 1988)
*[[November 5]] – [[Etta Moten Barnett]], US contralto singer and actress (d. 2004)<ref>{{cite book|author=Johnson Publishing Company|title=Jet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12|date=26 January 2004|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|pages=12}}</ref>
*[[November 21]] – [[Giacomo Vaghi]], Italian opera singer (d. 1978)
*[[November 22]] – [[Joaquin Rodrigo]], Spanish composer (d. 1999)
*[[December 22]] – [[André Kostelanetz]], conductor and arranger (d. 1980)
*[[December 26]] – [[Victor Hely-Hutchinson]], composer (d. 1947)
*[[December 27]] – [[Marlene Dietrich]], German-American actress (d. 1992)