- Dec 1 Guy de Lioncourt, composer
- Dec 10 János Hammerschlag, Hungarian composer, born in Prague (d. 1954)
- Dec 10 Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer (Behind the Barbed Wire Fence), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1967)
- Dec 22 Joseph Deems Taylor, American composer (Peter Ibbetson) and promoter of classical music, born in NYC, New York (d. 1966)