- Jan 7 Ramón Cuéllar y Altarriba, Spanish composer, dies at 55
- Jan 10 António da Silva Leite, Portuguese composer, dies at 73
- Jan 19 (Louis Joseph) Ferdinand Hérold, French pianist, violinist, and composer of over twenty operas, dies from tuberculosis at 41
- Feb 18 Georg Johann Schinn, German composer, dies at 64
- Feb 18 Ignac Ruzitska, Austrian composer, dies at 55
- Mar 11 Fridolin Weber, German composer, dies at 71
- Apr 7 Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian politician, cellist, and composer, dies at 57
- May 14 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, German composer, dies at 88
- May 28 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, German-Swedish organist, composer, conductor, choirmaster, and educator (Studentsång), dies at 74
- May 29 William Marshall, Scottish fiddle composer (strathspeys The Marchioness of Huntly), dies at 84
- May 30 Josef Slavik, Czech composer, dies at 27
- Jun 20 Philip Knapton, English organist and composer, dies at 44
- Jun 23 Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer, dies at 73
- Oct 15 Michał Ogiński, Polish diplomat, violinist, balalaika player, and composer (Farewell to My Homeland), dies at 68
- Oct 27 Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66
- Nov 8 Maximilian Stadler, Austrian pianist and composer and Benedictine monk, dies at 85
- Dec 10 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, Belgian composer, dies at 79
- Dec 16 Friedrich August Kanne, Austrian-German composer, dies at 55
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