- Mar 11 Maximilien Gardel, French ballet dancer and choreographer (Menuet Reine), dies at 45
- May 13 Johann Michael Malzat, Austrian composer, dies at 38
- May 28 Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, dies at 67
- Jun 20 Carl Friedrich Abel, German-British viola player and composer, dies at 63
- Aug 1 Alfonsus Liguori, Italian bishop, theologian, poet, composer, lawyer, and Catholic saint, dies at 90
- Nov 15 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Austrian composer (Iphigénie Tauride), dies at 73
- Nov 23 Anton Schweitzer, German composer, dies at 52
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