- Jan 9 Filippo Traetta [Philip Trajetta], Italian composer, dies at 77
- Feb 4 Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, German composer, dies at 66
- Apr 17 Gottlob Wiedebein, German composer, dies at 74
- Apr 18 Józef Elsner, Polish composer, musicologist, and teacher of Chopin, dies at 84
- May 3 William Beale, composer, dies at 70
- May 31 Vatroslav Lisinski [Ignatius Fuchs], Croatian composer (Love and Malice), dies of tuberculosis at 34
- Jun 17 (Gertrude) "Henriette" Sontag, later Countess Rossi, German operatic soprano (Carl Maria von Weber's "Euryanthe"), dies at 48
- Jul 15 Wincenty Studzinski, Polish violinist and composer, dies at 39
- Oct 28 James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67
- Nov 19 Alberich Zwyssig, Swiss composer (Swiss National Anthem), dies at 46
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