- Jan 14 Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer, dies at 87
- Jan 16 Antonín Volánek, Czech organist and composer, dies at 55
- Jan 28 Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen, German composer, dies at 55
- Feb 9 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54
- Feb 20 Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27
- Mar 1 Luigi Gatti, Italian composer, dies at 77
- Mar 13 Matej Sojka, Bohemian composer, dies at 77
- Mar 18 Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67
- Apr 6 Bonaventura Furlanetto, Italian composer, dies at 78
- May 21 Johann Friedrich Christmann, German composer, dies at 64
- Jun 23 Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, Prussian composer, dies at 63
- Oct 12 Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, German composer, dies at 66
- Oct 18 Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
- Nov 1 Giovanni Zanotti, Italian composer, dies at 79
- Nov 7 Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Italian composer, dies at 85
- Dec 1 Justin Heinrich Knechtl, composer, dies at 65