Events in Music
- Aug 31 Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 24 William Mason, composer
- Mar 20 Charles Albert White, composer
- May 8 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
- May 9 Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer
- May 12 Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
- Jun 3 Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer
- Jun 9 Gaetano Braga, composer
- Jun 13 Antonio Zamara, composer
- Jul 4 Hermann Kotzchmar, composer
- Aug 5 Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer
- Aug 15 Eduard de Hartog, composer
- Aug 21 Otto Goldschmidt, composer
- Aug 28 Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor, born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1908)
- Nov 14 Giulio Roberti, composer
- Nov 16 Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]
- Nov 28 Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy) [NS]
- Dec 24 Benjamin Ipavec, composer
- Dec 24 José Rogel, Spanish composer, born in Orihuela (d. 1901)
- Dec 25 Patrick S Gilmore, composer
Deaths in Music
- Jan 3 Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48
- Jan 12 Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55
- Jan 25 William Shield, composer, dies at 80
- Feb 16 Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belg/Fr composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95
- Feb 18 Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer, dies at 77
- May 8 Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47
- May 18 Bernardo Bittoni, composer, dies at 72
- Jun 27 Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer, dies at 64
- Jul 23 Wojciech Boguslawski, Polish composer, dies at 72
- Aug 3 Spike Jones [Lindley Armstrong Jones], American bandleader (Der Fueher's Face, Cocktails For Two), dies from emphysema at 53
- Oct 29 Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies
- Nov 9 Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
- Dec 7 Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer, dies at 45
- Dec 14 Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74
- Dec 17 Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80