- Feb 6 John Reid [Robertson], British Army General, composer, and founder of the chair of music at the University of Edinburgh, dies at 85
- Feb 23 François Guichard, French guitarist and composer, dies at 61
- Mar 11 Anton Eberl, Austrian composer, dies at 41
- Apr 1 Louis François Chambray, French composer, dies at 69
- Apr 1 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61
- Apr 10 Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German princess and composer (patron of Classical Weimar court), dies at 67
- Sep 12 Edward Miller, English organist, flautist, composer (Rockingham; Galway), and musical theorist (Treatise of Thorough Bass and Composition), dies at 71
- Dec 21 John Newton, English cleric and hymnist, died at 82
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