- May 6 Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French composer, dies at 59
- Jul 2 František Xaver Pokorný, Czech violinist and composer, dies at 64
- Jul 7 Pascal Boyer, French composer, dies at 51
- Jul 17 Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French composer, executed by guillotine after false charges of treason during French Revolution at 45 [1]
- Jul 22 Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, French composer, dies at 59
- Aug 11 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, German composer, dies at 72
- Oct 12 James Lyon, American composer, dies at 59