- Jan 10 Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60
- Apr 25 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, German composer, dies at 54
- Apr 30 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer and lawyer, dies at 36
- May 3 Carlo Zuccari, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 87
- Jun 30 Francesco Antonio Rosetti, Bohemian double-bassist and composer, dies at abour 42 [birthdate uncertain, c. 1750]
- Aug 2 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, German composer (Kantor at Gera), dies at 60
- Aug 17 Jan Jachym Kopriva, Czech composer and organist, dies at 38
- Nov 30 Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
- Dec 15 Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer, known as "the Swedish Mozart", conductor, and pedagogue, dies of tuberculosis at 36
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