- Jan 30 Johann Abraham Sixt, German organist, harpsichord player, and composer, dies at 40
- Feb 8 Johann Friedrich Doles, German composer, pupil of J. S. Bach, dies at 81
- Feb 11 Antoine Dauvergne, French composer, dies at 83
- Feb 27 Benvenuto Robbio San Raffaele, Italian composer, dies at 61
- Mar 1 Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer, dies at 36
- Mar 19 Philip Hayes, English composer, dies at 58
- Apr 3 Nonnosus Madlseder, German composer and Benedictine Monk, dies at 66
- Apr 12 Joseph Anton Steffan [Josef Antonín Štěpán], Bohemian harpsichordist and composer, dies at 71
- May 30 Carl Ludwig Junker, German composer, dies at 48
- Jul 29 Christoph Rheineck, German composer, dies at 48
- Aug 12 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kürzinger, German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister, dies at 73
- Sep 23 Johann Georg Roser, Austrian composer and kapellmeister, dies at 57
- Oct 12 Pierre Jélyotte, French composer, dies at 84
- Dec 22 Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer, dies at 74
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