- Jan 9 John Knowles Paine, American composer (Symphony No. 2 - In Spring), born in Portland, Maine (d. 1906)
- Jan 14 Emil Bohn, German organist, choral director, composer, and musicologist, born in Bielau, Prussian Silesia (now Biała Nyska, Poland) (d. 1909)
- Jan 19 Bohumil Pazdirek, Czech composer, born in Drahanovice, Moravia (d. 1919)
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