- Feb 23 George Washington Hewitt, American composer, born in New York City (d. 1893)
- Feb 25 Carl Schuberth, German composer, born in Magdeburg, Kingdom of Westphalia (d. 1863)
- Mar 7 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, German composer, born in Niederwerrn, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1861)
- Mar 13 Camille Marie Stamaty, French pianist, composer, and teacher of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Camille Saint-Saëns, born in Département Rome, French Empire (now Rome, Italy) (d. 1870)
- Mar 23 (Carl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert, German pianist, conductor, and composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1891)
- Mar 30 Angelo Catelani, Italian composer, conductor, and musicologist, born in Guastalla, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1866)
- Apr 17 Ann Mounsey, English organist and composer, born in Soho, London (d. 1891)
- Jul 19 Vincenz Lachner, German composer, born in Rain am Lech, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1893)
- Aug 5 Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (Mignon), and music professor, born in Metz, France (d. 1896)
- Sep 15 Jan Nepomuk Škroup, Czech composer, born in Osice, Czech Republic (d. 1892)
- Oct 16 Gaetano Capocci, Italian organist and composer (Responsori), born in Rome (d. 1898)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Oct 22 Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), born in Raiding, Hungary
- Oct 24 Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist, composer and conductor, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (d. 1885)
- Nov 10 Louis Kufferath, German-Belgian composer, born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany (d. 1882)
- Nov 13 Yuri Karlovich Arnold, Russian composer, born in St. Petersburg, Petrograd (d. 1898)
- Dec 8 Louis Schindelmeisser, German clarinetist and composer, born in Königsberg, Prussia (d. 1864)
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