- Mar 4 Félix Danjou, French church organist, arranger, music teacher, organ builder, and political journalist, dies at 53
- Mar 10 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, Italian-French composer and music publisher, dies at 87
- Mar 19 Louis Clapisson, French composer and violinist, dies at 57
- Mar 20 Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer, dies at 23
- Apr 1 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
- Apr 15 William Jackson, British organist and composer, dies at 51
- May 17 Adolf Bernhard Marx [Samuel Moses Marx], German music theorist and pedagogue, dies at 71
- May 17 Adolf Bernhard Marx, German composer, dies at 70
- Jul 23 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, English composer, dies at 83
- Jul 25 Aloys Schmitt, German pianist, composer and music theorist (Preparatory Exercises, Op. 16), dies at 77
- Nov 26 Adrien-François Servais, Belgian composer, dies at 59
- Nov 26 Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck), dies at 72
- Dec 3 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda [Jan Kalivoda], Bohemian violinist, composer, and court conductor, dies of a heart attack at 65
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