- Dec 7 Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk and musicologist, born in Bouzemont, France (d. 1923)
- Dec 12 Georges Jean Pfeiffer, French composer, born in Versailles, France (d. 1908)
- Dec 13 Phillips Brooks, American Episcopal bishop and composer (Little Town of Bethlehem), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1893)
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