- Feb 14 Antun Sorkocevic, writer and composer from Dubrovnik, dies at 65
- Feb 17 Ferdinando Carulli, Italian classical guitar composer (Méthode, Op. 27), dies at 71
- May 6 John Thomson, Scottish composer, dies at 35
- Aug 10 Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
- Aug 13 Bernhard Romberg, German cellist, composer and royal chaplain bandmaster, dies at 73
- Aug 24 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, German composer, dies at 36
- Aug 27 Ignaz von Seyfried, Austrian composer, dies at 65
- Sep 15 Alessandro Rolla, Italian violin and viola player and composer, teacher of Paganini, dies at 84
- Nov 18 Georg Christoph Grosheim, German composer, dies at 77
- Dec 18 Felice Blangini, Italian composer, dies at 60
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