- Feb 2 Jean-Baptiste Davaux, French classical composer, dies at 79
- Feb 19 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, Portuguese composer, dies at 78
- Feb 22 Johann Ignaz Walter, German opera singer and composer, dies at 66
- Mar 2 Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40
- Mar 3 Franz Adam Veichtner, German violinist and composer, dies at 81
- Apr 6 FrantiĊĦek Xaver Partsch, Czech composer, dies at 62
- Apr 13 Gaetano Valeri, Italian composer, dies at 61
- May 9 Charles Duquesnoy, French composer, dies at 62
- May 15 Christian Ludwig Dieter, German composer, dies at 64
- Jun 19 John Bray, American actor and composer (The Indian Princess), dies on his 40th birthday
- Jun 25 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German Romantic writer, judge and composer (Undine), dies at 46
- Aug 19 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, Spanish composer (Santiago de Compostela cathedral), dies at 62
- Oct 16 Eva Marie Veigel [La Violette], Austrian ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick, dies at 98
- Oct 27 Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, German pianist, composer and publisher, dies at 55
- Nov 18 Anton Teyber, Austrian composer, dies at 66
- Nov 24 Karl Jacob Wagner, German composer, dies at 50
- Nov 26 Johann Baptist Henneberg, Austrian composer, dies at 53
- Dec 15 Ferenc Verseghy, Hungarian poet and composer, dies at 65
- Dec 29 Albert Christoph Dies, German painter, engraver and biographer, dies at 67
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