Birthdays in Music
- Feb 19 Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
- Mar 24 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portuguese opera composer (Portogallo)
- Mar 25 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
- Apr 4 Stephen Storace, English composer, born in London (d. 1796)
- Apr 13 Charles Frederick Horn, English musician and composer, born in Nordhausen, Germany (d. 1830)
- Jun 24 Johann Paul Wessely, Czech composer, born in Frauenberg, Germany (d. 1810)
- Jul 4 Marco Santucci, Italian composer, born in Camaiore, Tuscany, Italy (d. 1843)
- Jul 20 Jakob Haibel, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d.1826)
- Jul 21 William G.F. Bentinck, 3rd Count Bentinck and Lord of Rhoon and Pendrecht
- Aug 10 Santiago Ferrer, composer
- Oct 4 Tommaso Sogner, Italian composer, born in Villa S Pedro Pescador, Gerona (d. 1821)
- Oct 15 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer, born in Boxford, Massachusetts (d. 1820)
- Dec 26 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer