- Dec 25 Salvatore Auteri-Manzocchi, Italian opera composer (Graziella), born in Palermo, Kingdome of the Two Sicilies (d. 1924)
- Dec 27 Augusto (de Oliveira) Machado, Portuguese composer (Lauriane; Camões es os Luziadas), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1924)
- Dec 28 Homer Newton Bartlett, American pianist, organist and composer, born in Olive, New York (d. 1920)
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