- Mar 5 Theodore Labarre, French composer and harpist, born in Paris, France (d. 1870)
- Mar 30 Adrien de La Fage, composer
- May 14 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
- Jun 8 Luigi Ricci, Italian composer, born in Naples (d. 1859)
- Jun 21 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1841)
- Jun 27 Stephen Elvey, English composer, born in Canterbury, Kent, England (d. 1860)
- Jul 9 Henry John Gauntlett, English organist and composer, born in Wellington, Shropshire (d. 1876)
- Oct 28 John Thomson, Scottish composer, born in Sprouston, Scotland (d. 1841)
- Nov 1 Alessandro Nini, Italian composer, born in Fano, Pesaro, Italy (d. 1880)
- Nov 14 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, German composer, born in Hamburg, (d. 1847)
- Dec 26 Joseph Léon Gatayes, French harpist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1877)
- Dec 28 Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer