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Birthdays
- Carlos López Buchardo ()
- Hernâni Torres ()
- Jan van Gilse ()
- Nikolai Andreievich Roslavets (4 January)
- Béla Bartók (25 March)
- Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (20 April)
- Sem Dresden (20 April)
- George Enescu (19 August)
- Sigurd Islandsmoen (27 August)
- Edvin Kallstenius (29 August)
- Gena Branscombe (4 November)
Dying days
- Francisco de Sá Noronha ()
- Giulio Briccialdi ()
- Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens (30 January)
- Werner Eduard Pirkhert (28 February)
- Modest Moussorgsky (28 March)
- Henri Vieuxtemps (6 June)
Music events
- Premiere of Saint-Saëns's violin concerto no. 3 in b minor op. 61, in Paris, France, with Sarasate on the violin (2 January) → Camille Saint-Saëns
- Premiere of Saint-Saëns's violin concerto no. 3 in b minor op. 61, in Paris, France, with Sarasate on the violin (2 January) → Pablo Martin Melinton Sarasate de Navasquez
- Premiere of Symphony no. 1 in D major D 82, in London, England. (5 February) → Franz Schubert
- Premiere of Les Contes d'Hoffmann, in Paris, France. (10 February) → Jacques Offenbach
- Premiere of Symphony no. 3 in D major, in London, England. (19 February) → Franz Schubert
- Premiere of Symphony no. 4 in E flat major “Romantic” (second version), in Vienna, Austria. (20 February) → Anton Bruckner
- Premiere of The Maid of Orleans, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (25 February) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Premiere of Symphony no. 5 in F major op. 76, in Prague, Czech Republic. (25 March) → Antonín Dvořák
- Premiere of piano concerto no. 2 in B flat major op. 83, in Budapest, Hungary, with Brahms at the piano. (9 November) → Johannes Brahms
- Premiere of the violin concerto in D major op. 36, in Vienna, Austria. (3 December) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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