Birthdays in Music
- Jan 6 Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1920)
- Feb 26 Wendelin Weissheimer, composer
- Mar 2 David Duffle Wood, composer
- Mar 4 Paul Lacôme, French composer, born in Le Houga, Gascony (d. 1920)
- Mar 15 Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
- Apr 11 Joseph Leopold Röckel, German composer, born in London (d. 1908)
- Apr 16 Karel Bendl, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1897)
- May 6 Alfred Pease, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1882)
- Jul 23 Édouard Colonne, French composer and violinist, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1910)
- Aug 12 Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
- Oct 22 Carl Fuchs, German composer and musician, born in Potsdam (d. 1922)
Georges Bizet
Oct 25 Georges Bizet, French composer (Carmen), born in Paris (d. 1875)
Georges Bizet
- Nov 22 Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer
- Dec 4 Melesio Morales, Mexican composer, born in Mexico City (d. 1908)
- Dec 11 Whitney Eugene Thayer, American composer, born in Mendon, Massachusetts (d. 1889)
- Dec 13 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, French composer, born in Chartres, France (d. 1873)
- Dec 17 Berthold Tours, Dutch-English composer, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1897)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 13 Ferdinand Ries, German composer dies at 53
- Jan 20 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer, dies at 64
- Feb 5 Philippe Libon, composer, dies at 62
- Feb 22 Friedrich Johann Eck, German violinist and composer (Concertos pour violon), dies at 70
- Mar 24 Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72
- May 28 Thomas Busby, composer, dies
- Jul 19 Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72
- Jul 28 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Swedish-Finnish composer, dies at 62
- Jul 29 Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66
- Sep 7 Joseph Panny, composer, dies at 43
- Sep 8 Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45
- Oct 4 Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, German composer, dies at 79
- Nov 24 Karl Ludwig Hellwig, German composer, dies at 65