- Feb 7 Cristóbal Oudrid, Spanish pianist, conductor, and orchestral and zarzuela composer (Rondeña; El molinero de Subiza), born in Badajoz, Spain (d. 1877)
- Feb 18 Carl Faust, Prussian military musician and composer (Marsch Glück auf - Lucky March), and conductor, born in Neisse, Province of Silesia, Prussia (now Nysa, Poland) (d. 1892)
- Mar 5 Hans Balatka, Moravian-American conductor (Milwaukee Musikverein; Chicago Oratorio Society), author (Condensed History of Music), and composer, born in Hoffnungsthal bei Olmütz, Moravia (d. 1899)
- Apr 3 Adolf Rzepko, Polish composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1892)
- May 10 Rudolf Viole, German pianist and composer, born in Schochwitz, Germany (d. 1867)
- May 26 Felipe Gutiérrez Y Espinosa, Puerto Rican composer, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1899)
- Jul 23 Richard Hol, Dutch composer, organist and conductor, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1904)
- Aug 12 Frederick Ouseley, British organist, composer (The Martyrdom of St Polycarp), musicologist, and Anglican priest, born in London, England (d. 1889)
- Aug 21 Kate Loder, British composer and pianist, born in Bathwick Street, Bathwick, England (d. 1904)
- Sep 11 Eduard Hanslick, German music critic, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1904)
- Oct 9 Adolphe Nibelle, French composer (Le Loup-Garou (The Werewolf)), born in Gien, France (d. 1895)
- Oct 25 Johann Baptist Strauss Jr., Austrian composer (Waltz King), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1899)
- Nov 14 August Reissmann, Prussian composer, born in Frankenstein, Silesia (now Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland) (d. 1903)
- Dec 4 Hynek Vojáček, Czech composer, born in Zlín, Empire of Austria (d. 1916)
- Dec 16 Robert Prescott Stewart, Irish composer, organist, conductor, and teacher, born in Dublin (d. 1894)
- Dec 19 George Frederick Bristow, American composer (Rip Van Winkle), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1898)
- Dec 27 Reinhold Finsterbusch, German singer, organist, composer, and choral director (Jesu Tod und Begräbnis), born in Mittweida, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1902)
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