Birthdays in Music
- Jan 3 Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
- Jan 19 Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer
- Jan 27 Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
- Mar 26 Josef Slavik, Czech composer, born in Jince, Czech Republic (d. 1833)
- Apr 18 Ludwig Schuberth, German composer, born in Magdeburg, Germany (d. 1850)
- Apr 26 Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, German composer, born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1872)
- May 8 Johann Friedrich Kittl, Czech composer, born in Orlík, Bohemia (d. 1868)
- May 27 Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1835)
- Jun 2 Isaac Strauss, French violinist, conductor and composer, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1888)
- Jun 27 Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer, born in Besançon, France (d. 1883)
- Jul 23 Eduard Marxsen, German pianist and composer, born in Nienstädten, Hamburg, Germany (d. 1887)
- Aug 21 Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, Danish violinist and composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1860)
- Sep 13 Moritz Ganz, German composer and cellist, born in Mainz, Germany (d. 1868)
- Sep 24 George Alexander Osborne, Irish pianist and composer (La Pluie de perles), born in Limerick, Ireland (d. 1893)
- Oct 6 Andreas Randel, Swedish composer, born in Ramdala, Blekinge, Sweden (d. 1864)
- Dec 6 Gilbert Duprez, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1896)
Deaths in Music
- Feb 11 Vicente Martín y Soler, Valencian composer, dies at 51
- Feb 23 John Alcock, English composer and organist, dies at 90
- Mar 16 Giuseppe Colla, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Mar 23 George Pinto [Sanders], English violin prodigy, keyboard virtuoso, and composer, dies of tuberculosis at 20
- Apr 4 Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84
- Jun 28 Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, German composer, dies at 64
- Aug 9 Louis Ferdinand, Prussian prince and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, dies at 33
- Aug 10 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer, dies at 68
- Sep 12 Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58
- Oct 23 Franz Seydelmann, German composer, dies at 58