- 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, German violinist and 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 and 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 (Adonais; Prometheus Unbound), drowns at 29
- Aug 12 Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies
- Aug 19 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, Spanish composer (Santiago de Compostela cathedral), dies at 62
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Aug 25 William Herschel, German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 83
- Sep 11 Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor, comedist, translator, editor of humour magazines, dies at 54
- Oct 13 Antonio Canova, Italian Neoclassical sculptor (The Three Graces), 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