- Jan 5 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, German organist and composer, dies at 53
- Jan 21 Gottfried Kirchhoff, German composer, dies at 60
- May 15 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, Italian composer and castrato singer dies at 67
- May 30 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
- Aug 27 Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, German-Bohemian organist, and baroque composer, dies at about 89
- Dec 6 Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
- Dec 10 Teodorico Pedrini, also known as De Lige, Italian Vincentian priest, musician, composer, and missionary at the imperial court of China (1711-46), dies at 75
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