- Jan 22 Stefano Pavesi, Italian opera composer (Ser Marcantonio), born in Casaletto Vaprio (d. 1850)
- Feb 22 Joachim Nicolas Eggert, Swedish violinist and composer, born in Ginst, Rügen Island (d. 1813)
- Mar 1 Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, born in Freinsheim (d. 1839)
- Mar 6 Philipp Roth, German cellist, and composer, born at Tarnowitz in Prussian Silesia (now Tarnowskie Góry, Poland) (d. 1898)
- Mar 13 Oliver Shaw, early American composer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1848)
- Mar 21 Alexis Garaudé, French composer and pedagogue, born in Nancy, France (d. 1852)
- Mar 28 Angelo Maria Benincori, Italian composer, born in Brescia, Italy (d. 1821)
- Apr 11 Louise Reichardt, German composer, born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1826)
- Apr 21 William Knyvett, British singer and composer, born in Westminster, London (d. 1856)
- May 28 Thomas Moore, Irish poet and musician, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1852)
- Jul 10 Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, Italian violinist and composer, born in Pesaro, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1858)
- Jul 20 Ignaz Schuster, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1835)
- Jul 21 Gottlob Wiedebein, German composer, born in Eilenstedt (d. 1854)
- Aug 1 Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star-Spangled Banner", born in Carroll County, Maryland (d. 1843)
- Aug 17 Franz de Paula Roser, Austrian composer and conductor, born in Naarn, Upper Austria (d. 1830)
- Sep 8 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, German composer, born in Königsberg, East Prussia (d. 1853)
- Sep 10 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, Italian-French composer, born in Paris (d. 1850)
- Nov 6 Michal Bogdanowicz, Polish composer (d. 1830)
- Dec 1 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, Russian church composer (d. 1856)
- Dec 14 Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma, Spanish composer, born in Zaragoza, Spain (d. 1847)
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