- Mar 12 Carolus Antonius Fodor [Carel Anton Fodor], Dutch pianist, conductor and prominent composer, born in Venlo, Netherlands (d. 1846)
- Apr 7 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
- Sep 1 Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
- Sep 12 Benjamin Carr, American organist, composer, choirmaster, teacher, music publisher, and co-founder of Philadelphia's Music Fund Society, born in London (d. 1831)
- Sep 14 Georg Johann Schinn, German composer, born in Sinzig, Germany (d. 1833)
- Nov 24 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
- Dec 6 Johann Baptist Henneberg, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1822)