- May 10 Peter Lichtenthal, Austrian composer, musicologist, and physician, born in Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary (now Bratislavia, Slovakia) (d. 1853)
- May 22 Jan Emmanuel Doležálek, Bohemian organist and composer, born in Chotěboř, Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy (d. 1858)
- May 28 Franz Joseph Fröhlich, German composer, born in Würzburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1862)
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