- Dec 9 Algernon Ashton, British composer, born in Durham, England (d. 1937)
- Dec 24 Roman Statkowski, Polish composer, born in Szczypiorno, Poland (d. 1925)
- Dec 25 Raoul Gunsbourg, French composer, impresario and opera director (Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 1892-1951), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1955)
- Dec 27 William Henry Hadow, British educational reformer and musicologist (Oxford History of Music, Studies in Modern Music), born in Ebrington, Gloucestshire, England (d. 1937)
- Dec 28 Gerard Brucken Fock, Dutch composer and painter, born in Koudekerke, Netherlands (d. 1935)
- Dec 30 Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Czech composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1951)
- Dec 31 Max Fiedler, German conductor and composer, born in Zittau, Saxony, (d. 1939)
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