- Jan 5 Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, Austrian violinist and composer (Kaleidoscope), born in Graz, Austria (d. 1928)
- Jan 18 Raymond Huntington Woodman, American organist, choirmaster (Brooklyn First Presbyterian Church, 1880–1941), and hymn composer, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1943)
- Jan 22 Karel Stecker, Czech organist, pedagogue, and composer of organ and sacred music, born on Kosmanos, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (d. 1918)
- Jan 30 Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler [Martin Karl Löffler], German-American violinist and composer, born in Schöneberg, Germany (d. 1935)
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