- Jan 3 (Gertrude) "Henriette" Sontag, later Countess Rossi, German operatic soprano (Carl Maria von Weber's "Euryanthe"), born in Koblenz, Rhin-et-Moselle, First French Republic (d. 1854)
- Jan 19 Vaclav Jindrich Veit, Czech composer, born in Řepnice, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1864)
- Jan 24 Anna Caroline Oury (née De Belleville), German concert pianist and composer, born in Landshut, kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1880)
- Jan 27 Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Basque child prodigy and composer, born in Bilbao, Spain (d. 1826)
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