- Jan 23 Francesco Ruggi, Italian composer, dies at 77
- Feb 20 Pavel Ivanovich Dolgorukov, Russian composer, dies at 57
- Mar 19 George Augustus Kollmann, composer, dies at 56
- Mar 22 Franz Volkert, Austrian composer and organist, dies at 67
- May 3 Thomas Hood, English poet and composer (The Song of the Shirt), dies at 45
- May 11 Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian composer and pianist child prodigy, dies of tuberculosis at 14
- Sep 7 Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, dies
- Sep 10 Karl August von Lichtenstein, German composer, dies at 78
- Nov 2 Chretien Urhan, French violinist and composer, dies at 55
- Dec 2 Johann "Giovanni" Simon Mayr, German composer and music director (Cathedral of Bergamo, 1802-45), dies at 82
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