Birthdays in Music
- Jan 12 Hippolyte Monpou, composer
- Jan 14 John Park, Scottish composer and minister, born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, (d. 1865)
- Jan 16 Karl August Krebs, composer
- Feb 2 Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
- Mar 14 Johann Strauss the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March), born in Leopoldstadt, Austria (d. 1849)
- Mar 30 Salomon Sulzer, composer
- Apr 4 Joseph Fischhof, Czech-Austrian pianist and composer, born in Bučovice, Moravia (d. 1857)
- May 31 Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer
- Jun 1 Mikhail Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer ("Jota Aragonesa", "Ruslan and Ludmilla") [OS=May 20]
- Jun 6 Petter Conrad Boman, composer
- Oct 10 Albin Masek, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1878)
- Nov 27 Julius Benedict, opera composer (Protoghesi), born in Stuttgart, Germany
Deaths in Music
- Mar 1 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
- Mar 4 Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies
- Mar 20 Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47
- Apr 28 Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49
- Jun 3 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35
- Jun 16 Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
- Jul 17 Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
- Nov 19 Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75