- Dec 7 Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54
- Dec 8 Eliza Poe, English-American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Po, dies of tuberculosis at 23 or 24
- Dec 17 John Antes, American composer and missionary, dies at 71
- Dec 17 Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny, French dramatist and composer, dies at 54
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