Birthdays in Music
- Jan 5 Auguste Mermet, French opera composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1889)
- Feb 5 Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
- Feb 8 Norbert Burgmüller, German composer, born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1836)
- Feb 11 Loisa Puget, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1889)
- Feb 22 Holger Simon Paulli, composer
Frederic Chopin
Mar 1 Frederic Chopin, Polish/French pianist and composer (Concert in F Minor), born in Żelazowa Wola, Duchy of Warsaw (d. 1849) (baptismal records 22nd Feb)
Frederic Chopin
- Mar 9 Jean-Georges Kastner, French composer, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1867)
- May 2 Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1874)
- Jun 8 Robert Schumann, German composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik), born in Zwickau, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1856)
- Jun 9 Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer
- Jun 19 Ferdinand David, German violinist and compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels), born in Hamburg (d. 1873)
- Jun 23 Franziska"Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina
- Jul 18 Peter [Josef Anton] Singer, Austrian monk, organist and composer, born in Unterhäselgehr, Tyrol (d. 1882)
- Aug 14 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
- Nov 7 Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer (Himnusz), born in Gyula (d. 1893)
- Nov 16 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
- Dec 1 Joseph Gungl, composer
- Dec 21 Ludwig Schuncke, German pianist & composer, born in Kassel, Germany (d. 1834)