Birthdays in Music
- Jan 7 Emanuil Manolov, composer
- Mar 12 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
- Mar 13 Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer, born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia (d. 1903)
- May 4 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Austrian composer (Donna Diana), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1945)
- May 29 Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (Suite española, Tango in D), born in Camprodon, Spain (d. 1909)
- Jun 25 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), born in Dieuze, France (d. 1956)
- Jul 3 William Wallace, Scottish composer, born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1940)
- Jul 7 Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan)
- Aug 10 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
- Sep 18 Alberto Franchetti, composer
- Sep 22 Heinrich Reitsch, composer
- Oct 8 Felix Woyrsch, German composer, born in Opava, Czech Republic (d. 1944)
- Oct 17 Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer
- Nov 16 Edmund Schuecker, composer
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Nov 18 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish composer and 1st premier of Poland (1919), born in Kuryłówka, Russian Empire (d. 1941)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Deaths in Music
- Jan 30 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, Portugese violinist, hornist and composer (Adoração ao Sol), dies at 44
- Mar 6 Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
- Mar 14 Louis-Antoine Jullien, French conductor, dies at 47
- Mar 28 Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73
- May 21 Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
- Jul 6 Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37
- Aug 26 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer, dies at 71
- Sep 25 Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60
- Oct 6 Stephen Elvey, English composer, dies at 55
- Nov 5 Carl Binder, Austrian composer, dies at 43
- Nov 14 Feliks Ostrowski, composer, dies at 58
- Nov 28 Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies