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Birthdays
- Abel-Marie Decaux ()
- Armas Järnefelt ()
- Sogomon Sogomonian ()
- Walter Carroll ()
- Julius Conus (1 February)
- Francisco de Lacerda (11 March)
- Albert Roussel (5 April)
- Hans Pfitzner (5 May)
- Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (14 May)
- Siegfried Wagner (6 June)
- Ivor Atkins (29 November)
Dying days
- Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ()
- Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzjski (17 January)
- Hector Berlioz (8 March)
- Ernst Haberbier (12 March)
- Alexander Dreyschock (1 April)
- Carl Loewe (20 April)
- Wilhelm Bernhard Molique (10 May)
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (18 December)
- Julian (Jules) Fontana (23 December)
Music events
- Premiere of Ein Deutsches Requiem op. 45, in Leipzig, Germany. (18 February) → Johannes Brahms
- Premiere of the piano concerto in a minor op. 16, in Copenhagen, Denmark. (3 April) → Edvard Hagerup Grieg
- Premiere of Rheingold, in Munich, Germany. (22 September) → Richard Wagner
- Premiere of Mass in e minor, in Linz, Austria. (29 September) → Anton Bruckner
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