- Jan 9 Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
- Jan 10 François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure, dies at 77
- Jan 13 Abbé Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, French composer and painter, dies at 80
- Jan 25 Caroline Lamb, English aristocrat, author (Glenarvon), wife of William Lamb, lover of Lord Byron, dies at 42
- Jan 31 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35