- Jan 14 Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72
- Feb 2 Jean-Baptiste Davaux, French classical composer, dies at 79
- Feb 5 Ali Paşa Tepelenë, known as 'The Lion of Janina", Ottoman Albanian ruler, Pasha of Yanina (1788-1822), dies aged somewhere between 78-82
- Feb 10 Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
- Feb 19 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, Portuguese composer, dies at 78
- Feb 22 Johann Ignaz Walter, German opera singer and composer, dies at 66
- Feb 24 Thomas Coutts, Anglo-Scottish banker (Coutts & Co.), dies at 86
- Mar 1 Jack Jouett, American politician & patriot (warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack), dies at 67
- Mar 2 Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40
- Mar 3 Franz Adam Veichtner, composer, dies at 81
- Apr 3 Friedrich Bertuch, writer, dies
- Apr 6 František Xaver Partsch, Czech composer, dies at 62
- Apr 13 Gaetano Valeri, Italian composer, dies at 61
- May 8 John Stark, American military officer (Battle of Bennington), dies at 93
- May 9 Charles Duquesnoy, French composer, dies at 62
- May 15 Christian Ludwig Dieter, German composer, dies at 64
- May 17 Armand-Emmanuel, Duc de Richelieu, Prime Minister of France (1815-18, 1820-21), dies at 55
- Jun 19 John Bray, English-born American actor and composer (The Indian Princess), dies on his 40th birthday
- Jun 25 Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46
- Jul 2 Denmark Vesey, American carpenter and ex-slave who planned an unsuccessful slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina, hanged with 5 others at Blake's Landing, Charleston, South Carolina at about 55
- Jul 8 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English romantic poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29
- Aug 12 Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies
- Aug 19 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
Aug 19 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer, dies at 72
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
William Herschel
Aug 25 William Herschel, German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 83
William Herschel
- Sep 11 Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor, comedist, translator, editor of humour magazines, dies at 54
- Oct 13 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, dies at 64
- Oct 16 Eva Marie Veigel [La Violette], Austrian ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick, dies at 98
- Oct 27 Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, German pianist, composer and publisher, dies at 55
- Oct 29 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch minister of War, dies at 61
- Nov 6 Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior of the Netherlands, dies at 71
- Nov 6 Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist, dies at 73
- Nov 18 Anton Teyber, Austrian composer, dies at 66
- Nov 19 Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
- Nov 24 Karl Jacob Wagner, composer, dies at 50
- Nov 26 Johann Baptist Henneberg, Austrian composer, dies at 53
- Dec 15 Ferenc Verseghy, Hungarian poet and composer, dies at 65
- Dec 29 Albert Christoph Dies, German painter, engraver and biographer, dies at 67