This is a summary of 1920 in music in the United Kingdom.
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- 9 January – Clive Dunn, comedy actor and chart-topping singer (died 2012)
- 12 April – The Cox Twins, music hall entertainers (Frank, died 2007, and Fred, died 2013)
- 14 April – Ivor Forbes Guest, historian of dance (died 2018)[10]
- 13 May – Gareth Morris, flautist (died 2007)[11]
- 20 May – Betty Driver, singer and actress (died 2011)[12]
- 19 June – Johnny Douglas, film composer and conductor (died 2003)[13]
- 24 October – Steve Conway, singer (died 1952)[14]
- 12 December – Dick James, singer and record producer (died 1986)
- 21 January – John Henry Maunder, composer, 61[15]
- 24 January – Percy French, Irish-born songwriter, 65 (pneumonia)[16]
- 7 April – Alice Elgar, wife of composer Edward Elgar, 72 (lung cancer)[17]
- 5 May – Robert Bryan, poet and composer, 61
- 28 May - Hardwicke Rawnsley, hymn-writer, 68[18]
- 28 June - Pauline Rita, singer and actress, about 78
- 14 December – George J. Gaskin, Irish singer, 57
Daniel Snowman, Hallelujah! An Informal History of the London Philharmonic Choir (London: London Philharmonic Choir, London 2007), pp. 127–33 – Appendix II: "The History of the Philharmonic Choir".
Moore, Jerrold Northrop (1979). Music and Friends: Letters to Adrian Boult. London: Hamish Hamilton. p. 42. ISBN 0-241-10178-6. Lady Elgar's diary
"Hamilton Harty", The Musical Times, Vol. 61, No. 926 (April 1920), pp. 227–230 (subscription required)
King-Smith, Beresford (1995), Crescendo! 75 years of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London: Methuen, ISBN 0413697401. page 9.
Mike, Celia, "Howell, Dorothy", in The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel, eds.). The MacMillan Press (London & Basingstoke), p. 231 (1994, ISBN 0-333-51598-6).
Sebastian Bell (28 February 2007). "Gareth Morris". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
Tim McDonald (23 April 2003). "Johnny Douglas". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
The Songs of Percy French, by James N. Healy (Dublin & Cork: Mercier Press, 1983)
Moore, Jerrold N. (1984). Edward Elgar: a Creative Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 750–51. ISBN 0-19-315447-1.