- May 2 Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1922)
- May 20 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, Spanish violinist and composer, born in Palma, Majorca, Spain (d. 1918)
- May 29 Émile Pessard, French pianist, concert and comic opera composer, and teacher (Maurice Ravel, Jacques Ibert), born in Paris (d. 1917)
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