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June 11 - Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music
Pauline Garcia-Viardot makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.

"Hark, Brothers, Hark", words and music by John Hill Hewitt
"Woodman, Spare That Tree!", words by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell

January 12 - Adolf Jensen
January 2 - Mily Balakirev, composer (d. 1910)
July 30 - Signe Hebbe, operatic soprano (d. 1925)
August 24 - Theodore Dubois, organist and composer (d. 1924)
December 9 - Emile Waldteufel, composer (d. 1915)
December 25 - Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (d. 1930)
date unknown
- Kate Santley, actress and singer (d. 1923)
- La Serneta, flamenco singer (d. 1910)

January 23 - John Field, pianist and composer (b. 1782)
April 9 - Polly Cuninghame, ballet dancer (b. c. 1785)
May 5 - Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer (b. 1752)
June 16 - Valentino Fioravanti, opera buffa composer (b. 1764)
July 28 - Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (b. 1754)
August 6 - Johann Nepomuk Schelble, composer (b. 1789)
October 6 - Jean François Lesueur, composer (b. 1760/1763)
October 11 - Samuel Wesley, organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles Wesley
October 17 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer (b. 1778)
October 28 - Jean-Blaise Martin, opera singer (b. 1768)
date unknown
- Franz Joseph Antony, organist and choral composer (b. 1790)
- Théodore Latour, composer for piano (b. 1766)