- May 1 Anthony Johnson Showalter, American composer, born in Cherry Grove, Virginia (d. 1924)
- May 6 Georges Hüe, French composer, born in Versailles, France (d. 1948)
- May 10 Frederick Zech Jr, American composer and pianist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)
- May 16 Frank Lynes, American composer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1913)
- May 16 Hanus Trnecek, Czech composer and conductor, born in PraguePrague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1914)
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