- Jan 14 Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris), dies at 59
- Jan 27 Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, German lieder and ballad composer, and conductor, dies at 42
- Mar 7 Johann Georg Witthauer, German composer, dies at 50
- Mar 29 Frederic Thieme, French composer, dies at 51
- Jul 28 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72
- Aug 23 Corona Schröter, German singer. and composer, dies at 51
- Oct 22 Samuel Arnold, English organist, theater composer (The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern), and music director (Marylebone Gardens). at 62
- Oct 29 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, French composer, dies at 95
- Nov 7 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, Austrian composer, dies at 50
- Dec 31 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, German composer, dies at 53
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