- Feb 12 Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer, dies at 72
- Mar 10 Joseph-François Snel, Belgian composer, dies at 67
- Mar 14 Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58
- Mar 17 Petter Conrad Boman, Swedish composer, dies at 56
- Apr 18 Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67
- May 3 Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80
- May 12 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50
- Jun 5 Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55
- Aug 29 Franz Joseph Glæser, Czech-Danish composer, dies at 63
- Sep 14 Fortunato Santini, composer, dies at 83
- Nov 28 Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54
- Dec 14 Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66
- Dec 15 Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45
- Dec 16 Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71