Birthdays in Music
- Feb 22 Joseph Lipavsky, composer
- Feb 22 Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
- Feb 26 Caspar Furstenau, composer
- Mar 27 Giovanni Liverati, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1846)
- Mar 30 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
- Apr 1 Ignaz Franz von Mosel, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1844)
- May 11 Henri-Jean Rigel, composer
- Jun 8 Robert Stevenson, Scottish civil engineer (Bell Rock Lighthouse, Scotland), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1850)
- Jul 25 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, German composer, born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1840)
- Sep 18 Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, French musician and composer, born in Dreux, France (d. 1839)
- Oct 4 François-Louis Perne, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1832)
- Oct 25 Corneille Vander Planken, Belgian violinist and composer; (d. 1849)
- Nov 10 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, Czech composer, born in Prague Old Town (d. 1863)
- Nov 18 Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
- Dec 7 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, Bohemian aristocrat and composer, born in Vienna (d. 1816)
Deaths in Music
- Mar 11 Johann George Reutter, composer, dies at 63
- Apr 19 Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer, dies at 66
- Jun 15 Louis-Claude Daquin [d'Acquin], French organist and composer (La Rose), dies at 77
- Aug 21 Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29
- Aug 21 Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48
- Oct 8 Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60
- Nov 5 Johannes Schmidlin, composer, dies at 50
- Dec 12 Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41