- May 2 Theodore Moses Tobani, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1933)
- May 9 Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch composer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1932)
- May 12 Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (From the Apocalypse; Bewitched Lake), conductor, and pedagogue (St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1878-1914), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1914)
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