- Jan 20 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian French composer, born in Philippeville, Belgium (d. 1842)
- Jan 21 Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, Italian music publisher and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1827 or 1828)
- Feb 19 Friedrich Franz Hurka, Bohemian operatic tenor, conductor, and composer, born in Merklin, Bohemia (d. 1805)
- Mar 24 Marcos Portugal [Marcos Antonio da Fonseca Portugal], Portuguese-Brazilian opera, sacred music, and national anthem composer (Portugal - "Hymno Patriótico", 1809; Brazil - "Hino da Independência", 1822), born in Portugal (d. 1830)
- Mar 25 Francesco Giuseppe Pollini, Italian composer, singer, and pupil of Mozart, born in Ljubljana , Habsburg Empire (d. 1846)
- Apr 4 Stephen Storace, English composer, born in London, England (d. 1796)
- Apr 13 Charles Frederick Horn, German-English composer, arranger, and organist, born in Imperial City of Nordhausen (d. 1830)
- Jun 24 Johann Paul Wessely [Jan Pavel Veselý], Czech violinist and composer, born in Hluboká nad Vltavou (Frauenberg), Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic (d. 1810)
- Jul 4 Marco Santucci, Italian composer, born in Camaiore, Tuscany, Italy (d. 1843)
- Jul 20 Jakob Haibel, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1826)
- Aug 10 Santiago Ferrer, Spanish composer, born in Spain (d. 1824)
- Oct 4 Tommaso Sogner, Italian composer, born in Villa S Pedro Pescador, Gerona (d. 1821)
- Oct 15 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer, born in Boxford, Massachusetts (d. 1820)
- Dec 26 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, German clarinetist, composer, and teacher, born in Heidelberg, Margraviate of Baden (d. 1817)
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