- Jan 10 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer and composer, born in Havixbeck, Prince-Bishopric of Münster, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1848)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Jan 31 Austrian composer (Unfinished Symphony), born in Vienna, Austria
- Feb 15 Heinrich [Henry] Engelhard Steinway, German American piano maker (Steinway & Sons), born in Wolfshagen im Harz, Duchy of Brunswick (d. 1871)
- Feb 24 Samuel Lover, Irish composer, novelist and painter, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1868)
- Mar 7 Carl Schwencke, German pianist and composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1870)
- Apr 17 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian-French composer and conductor, born in Hanzinne, Belgium (d. 1869)
- May 6 Joseph Brackett, American religious leader (Shakers) and composer (Simple Gifts), born in Cumberland, Maine (d. 1882)
- May 12 Johann Hermann Kufferath, German composer, born in Mülheim an der Ruhr (d. 1864)
- May 30 Johann Christian Lobe, German composer, born in Weimar, Germany (d. 1881)
- Jul 19 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, German composer, born in Neugersdorf, Germany (d. 1856)
- Jul 21 Franz Schoberlechner, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1843)
- Aug 5 Friedrich August Kummer, German composer and musician, born in Meiningen, Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen (now Germany) (d. 1879)
- Nov 23 Gábor Mátray, Hungarian composer and musicologist, born in Nagykata, Hungary (d. 1875)
- Nov 29 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer (L'elisir d'amore; Lucia di Lammermoor), born in Bergamo, Cisalpine Republic (now Italy) (d. 1848)
- Dec 13 Heinrich Heine, German poet and lyricist (Schubert, Liszt), born in Düsseldorf, Grand Duchy of Berg (d. 1856)
- Dec 19 Josef Theodor Krov, Bohemian composer, singer and teacher, born in Nové Strašecí, Czechia (d. 1859)
- Dec 26 Hans Skramstad, Norwegian pianist and composer, born in Toten, Norway (d. 1839)
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