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[edit] Published popular music
- "Angels Without Wings" w.m. George Dance
- "Away In The Manger" w. anon m. James Ramsey Murray
- "Calvary" w. Henry Vaughn m. Paul Rodney
- "Comrades" Felix McGlennon & George Horncastle
- "The Song That Reached My Heart" w.m. Julian Jordan
- "Ti! Hi! Tiddelly Hi!", w.m. Joseph Tabrar
- From the score of Ruddigore (Music: Arthur Sullivan Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert):
- "I Know A Youth Who Loves A Maid"
- "I Shipped, D'Ye See, In A Revenue Sloop"
- "My Boy, You May Take It From Me"
- "There Grew A Little Flower"
- "When The Night Wind Howls"
[edit] Births
- January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
- February 7 - Eubie Blake, jazz pianist and composer
- March 4 - Violet MacMillan, Broadway star
- March 7 - Heino Eller, composer
- March 22 - Chico Marx, piano-playing comedian
- March 23 - Anthony van Hoboken, musicologist
- March 25 - Nicolae Bretan, opera composer
- April 10 - Heinz Tiessen, composer (d. 1971)
- May 22 - Bertha Lewis, operatic contralto
- June 25 - George Abbott, US librettist and director
- July 2 - Marcel Tabuteau, oboeist
- July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
- August 25 - Fartein Valen, composer
- September 14 - Paul Kochanski, violinist
- September 19 - Rosita Marstini, dancer
- October 6 - Maria Jeritza, operatic soprano
- October 11 - Oscar Shaw, actor and singer
- October 22 - Nadia Boulanger, composer, conductor and music teacher
- November 1 - Max Trapp, composer (d. 1971)
- December 6 - Joseph Lamb
- December 7 - Ernst Toch, composer
- December 8 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, musicologist and composer
- December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, composer
- December 24 - Lucrezia Bori, operatic soprano
- December 27 - Gertie Gitana, music hall singer
- December 27 - Bernard van Dieren, composer (d. 1936)
- date unknown
[edit] Deaths
- February 21 - James Lorraine Geddes, songwriter
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer
- March 11 - Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer
- April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes, lyricist and collector of folk tunes
- June 24 - Filippo Filippi, music critic
- July 17 - Louis Mérante, dancer and choreographer
- October 31 - George Alexander Macfarren, composer (b. 1813)
- November 2 - Jenny Lind, singer, "the Swedish Nightingale"
- December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, lyricist
