- Jan 5 Fortunato Santini, Italian priest & composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1861)
- Jan 13 Anton Fischer, composer
- Feb 12 Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
- Feb 14 Fernando Sor, Spanish composer, baptized in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1839)
- Mar 8 Friedrich August Kanne, Austrian-German composer, born in Delitzsch, Saxony (d. 1833)
- Apr 6 Joseph Funk, early American composer, born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (d. 1862)
- May 8 Johann Baptist Gansbacher, Austrian composer, born in Sterzing, Tyrol, Italy (d. 1844)
- May 28 Friedrich Westenholz, German composer, born in Ludwigslust, Germany (d. 1840)
- Jul 7 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
- Jul 10 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer and royal chaplain master, born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1858)
- Jul 29 Carl Borromaus Neuner, German composer, born in Munich, Bavaria (d. 1830)
- Sep 3 Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, French violinist and composer, born in Versailles, France (d. 1832)
- Nov 14 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer