- Jan 5 Kaspar Ett, German organist & composer, born in Eresing, Germany (d. 1847)
- Jan 8 Archduke Rudolph of Austria, Austrian clergyman & noble, born in Florence, Tuscany (d. 1831)
- Jan 8 Erik Drake, Swedish composer (Royal Swedish Academy of Music), born on Föllingsö, Östergötland (d. 1870)
- Jan 8 Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general & politician, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1874)
- Jan 11 William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
- Jan 13 Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, German composer, born in Ludwigslust (d. 1854)
