- Jan 15 Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer and musician, dies (b. c. 1700)
- Jun 11 Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67
- Aug 6 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, German composer, dies at 72
- Sep 7 Johann Georg Holzbogen, German violinist and composer, dies at 48
- Nov 16 Marian Paradeiser, Austrian composer, dies at 28
- Nov 29 Lorenzo Somis, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 87