Births
- January 3 – Julie Miller, singer
- January 9 – Waltraud Meier, operatic soprano
- January 17 – Paul Young, singer
- January 18
- Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins)
- Christoph Prégardien, operatic tenor
- January 25 – Andy Cox (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)
- January 31 – Johnny Rotten, singer (Sex Pistols)
- February 3 – Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth)
- February 13 – Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order)
- March 2 – John Cowsill (The Cowsills)
- March 9 – Sergej Larin, operatic tenor (d. 2008)
- March 12 – Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
- March 16 – Vladimír Godár, composer
- April 14 – Barbara Bonney, operatic and concert soprano
- May 7 – Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks and Flag of Convenience)
- May 25 – Sugar Minott, singer
- June 3 - Lynne Dawson, soprano
- June 5 – Kenny G, saxophonist
- July 15 – Ian Curtis, vocalist (Joy Division) (d. 1980))
- July 20 – Paul Cook (Sex Pistols)
- August 3 – Graeme Koehne, composer and music teacher
- August 8 – Chris Foreman (Madness)
- August 26 – Sally Beamish, composer
- August 27 – Glen Matlock, guitarist (Sex Pistols)
- September 22 – Debby Boone, singer
- October 2 – Freddie Jackson, soul singer
- October 23 – Dwight Yoakam, singer-songwriter
- November 4 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer/songwriter (d. 1991)
- November 17 – Philip Grange, composer
- November 20 – DJ Red Alert, djer
- November 24 – Jouni Kaipainen, composer
- December 6 – Peter Buck, R.E.M.
- December 8 – Warren Cuccurullo (Missing Persons, Duran Duran)
- December 13 – Majida El Roumi, singer
- December 19 – William Orbit, composer
- December 23 – Dave Murray (Iron Maiden)
- December 28 – Nigel Kennedy, violinist
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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