- Jan 3 Karl Collan, Finnish composer, born in Iisalmi, Finland (d. 1871)
- Jan 17 Eduard Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer, born in Miskolc, Austria-Hungary (d. 1898) [some sources cite birth year as 1830]
- Jan 24 Karol Studzinski, Polish violinist and composer, born in The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow (now Kraków, Poland) (d. 1883)
- Jan 27 Louis Schubert, German, violinist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Dessau, German Confederation (d. 1884)
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