text: Births 17 January – Calvin Harris, singer-songwriter, record producer, DJ
  25 February – Lovefoxxx, singer (CSS)
  7 March – Kevin McDaid, singer (V)
  27 March – Laura Critchley singer-songwriter
  7 April – Yonah Higgins, singer (Cleopatra)
  22 April – Amelle Berrabah, singer (Sugababes)
  4 May – Victoria Hesketh (Little Boots), singer-songwriter, musician, DJ
  10 May – Kristyna Myles, singer-songwriter and pianist
  14 May – Olly Murs, singer-songwriter
  23 June – Duffy, singer
  12 July – Gareth Gates, singer
  23 July – Matthew Murphy, singer and guitarist (The Wombats)
  16 September – Katie Melua, singer and musician
  22 September – Ross Jarman, musician (The Cribs)
  26 September – Keisha Buchanan, singer, (Sugababes)
  16 October – Shayne Ward, singer
  27 October – Kelly Osbourne, singer and TV personality
  25 December – Jessica Origliasso and Lisa Origliasso, singers (The Veronicas)
  Deaths
  1 January – Alexis Korner, blues musician, 55 (lung cancer)
  10 January – Binnie Hale, actress and singer, 84
  26 January – Grahame Clifford, singer and actor, 78
  18 February – Paul Gardiner, bass guitarist, 25 (overdose)
  3 March – Kathleen Richards, musicologist, pianist and composer, 88
  9 March – Imogen Holst, conductor and composer, 76
  6 April – Jimmy Kennedy, Irish-born British songwriter, 81
  26 April – Barry Gray, composer, 75