- Feb 10 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer (Eugene Onegin), killed in a duel at 37
- Feb 12 Ludwig Borne [Loeb Baruch], German-Jewish writer, dies at 50
- Feb 13 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809
- Feb 19 Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
- Mar 13 Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat and minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
- Mar 26 Joseph Lincke, German cellist and composer, dies at 53
- Mar 29 Maria Fitzherbert, English morganatic wife of King George IV, dies at 80
- Mar 31 John Constable, English landscape painter (Hay Wain), dies at 60
- Apr 17 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker and politician, dies at 78
- May 5 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (Andromeda), dies at 85
- May 8 Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman, dies at 66
Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837)
May 31 English pantomimist and the "greatest clown in history", dies at 57
- Jun 14 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (The Poems of Leopardi), dies at 38
- Jun 16 Valentino Fioravanti, Italian composer, dies at 72
- Jun 19 Aleksander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author, dies in battle at 39
- Jun 20 Giovanni Furno, Italian composer and famous music teacher in Naples, dies at 89
- Jun 20 William IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1830-37), dies at 71
- Jul 24 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
- Jul 28 John Ross, British composer and organist, dies at 73
- Aug 1 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter, dies at 41
- Aug 9 Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
- Sep 23 Richard John Samuel Stevens, English composer, dies at 80
- Sep 30 Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama, dies at 21
- Oct 1 Robert Clark, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1819-21), dies at 60
- Oct 5 Hortense de Beauharnais, French Queen of Holland (1806-10), dies at 54
- Oct 6 Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer, noted for his operas and oratorios, dies at 77
- Oct 9 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
- Oct 10 Charles Fourier, French philosopher and early Socialist (credited with inventing term 'feminism'), dies at 65
- Oct 11 Samuel Wesley, British organist and composer referred to as "The English Mozart" (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
- Oct 12 Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1815-37), dies at 62
- Oct 15 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet, dies at 77
- Oct 17 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58
- Nov 4 Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
- Nov 7 Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, murdered at 34
- Nov 30 Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary, dies at 50
- Dec 13 Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
- Dec 26 Martinus van Marum, Dutch physician and inventor (constructed largest electrostatic machine in the world), dies at 87