- Feb 10 Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, Italian composer, dies at 84
- Feb 15 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, Danish flautist, composer, choral director, and music educator (Blaagaard Seminarium, 1791-1811), dies at 85
- Mar 10 Muzio Clementi, Italian-English pianist, composer, music publisher, and piano maker, dies at 80
- Mar 12 Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish opera composer, dies at 45
- Mar 23 Wilhelm Würfel, Bohemian pianist, conductor, teacher, and composer, dies at 41
- May 15 Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, dies at 73
- May 18 Bonafacio Asioli, Italian composer, dies at 62
- May 26 François-Louis Perne, French composer, dies at 59
- Jun 2 Manuel del Popolo García, Spanish composer and tenor, dies at 57
- Jun 10 Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer, dies at 57
- Jun 27 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, French army officer, and composer ("La Marseillaise" -the French national anthem), dies at 72
- Aug 31 Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, French violinist and composer, dies at 53
- Sep 9 Bernhard Klein, German composer, mainly of vocal works, dies at 39
- Oct 18 Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, Belgian composer, dies at 73
- Nov 3 Pietro Generali, Italian composer, dies at 59
- Dec 22 Ishmail Spicer, American composer, dies at 72
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