Classical music: new works
Film and incidental music
Musical films
- Aunt Sally, starring Cicely Courtneidge and Sam Hardy and featuring Debroy Somers and his Band. Directed by Tim Whelan.
- Bitter Sweet, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravey
- Facing the Music, directed by Harry Hughes, starring Stanley Lupino, José Collins and Nancy Brown[6]
- The Good Companions, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews and Edmund Gwenn
- Happy, directed by Frederic Zelnik, starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Hyson, Laddie Cliff and Will Fyffe.[7]
- That's a Good Girl, starring Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph|
Births
- 20 January – Gerry Monroe, singer (died 1989)
- 7 February – Stuart Burrows, operatic tenor (d. 2025)
- 14 February – James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter (died 2001)
- 22 February – Katharine, Duchess of Kent, patron of music (d. 2025)
- 1 March – Gerry Bron, record producer and manager (d. 2012)
- 6 March – Dolly Collins, folk musician, arranger and composer (died 1995)
- 14 April – Shani Wallis, actress and singer
- 21 April – Ian Carr, jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator (died 2009)
- 22 May – Don Estelle, actor and singer (died 2003)
- 30 May – Michael Garrick, jazz pianist and composer (died 2011)
- 10 June — Ian Campbell, folk singer (died 2012)
- 15 July – Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
- 23 July – Bernard Roberts, pianist (died 2013)
- 29 July – Anne Rogers, actress, singer and dancer
- 15 August – Rita Hunter, operatic soprano (died 2001)
- 21 August – Dame Janet Baker, operatic mezzo-soprano
- 23 August – Ian Fraser, Emmy-nominated composer, conductor, arranger and music director (died 2014)
- 10 October – Daniel Massey, star of musical theatre (died 1998)
- 21 October – Georgia Brown, actress and singer (died 1992)
- 3 November – John Barry, film composer (died 2011)
- 23 November – John Sanders, organist, conductor and composer (died 2003)
- 10 December – Don Charles, singer and record producer (died 2005)
- 30 December – Andy Stewart, singer (died 1993)