- Jan 29 Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany, wife of Bonnie Prince Charlie, dies at 71
- Feb 1 Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian blind pianist, singer, organist, and composer, dies at 64
- Feb 8 Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch poet and writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71
- Feb 9 Anna Katharina Emmerick, Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist, dies at 49
- Feb 20 Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars, dies at 63
Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824)
Feb 21 French military officer and stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte (son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie), dies at 42
- Feb 22 John Davy, English composer, dies at 60
- Mar 3 Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 70
- Mar 9 Jacobus Cramer, Dutch priest (Archpriest of Holland and Zeeland, chaplain to King Louis Napoleon), dies at 79
- Mar 12 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
- Mar 22 Johann Melchior Dreyer, German composer, dies at 76
- Apr 15 Theodorus Frederik van Capellen, Dutch naval officer (Bombardment of Algiers) dies at 61
- Apr 18 Edward Jones, Welsh harpist and composer, dies at 72
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Apr 19 British romantic poet (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), dies at 36
- Apr 24 Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologian and writer (History of Mankind), dies at 71
- May 4 Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
- May 15 Alexander Campbell, Scottish composer and writer (associate of Walter Scott), dies at 60
- May 26 Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
- Jun 14 Agustín de Betancourt, Spanish civil engineer (steam engines, hot air balloons), dies at 68
- Jun 16 Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
- Jun 18 Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1790-1801), dies at 55
- Jun 21 Étienne Aignan, French writer and translator, dies at 51
Agustín de Iturbide (1783-1824)
Jul 19 Mexican army general, politician and 1st emperor of Mexico, executed by firing squad at 40
- Jul 20 Joan Melchior Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book), dies at 48
- Aug 8 Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist (Prolegomena), dies at 65
- Aug 21 John Taylor, American philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
- Aug 21 Santiago Ferrer, Spanish composer, dies at 62
- Sep 12 Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer to Napoleon, dies at 62
Louis XVIII (1755-1824)
Sep 16 1st post-revolutionary King of France (1814-24), dies at 68
- Sep 17 Giacomo Tritto, Italian composer, dies at 91
- Oct 27 Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and statesman, dies at 102
- Oct 29 Charles Pinckney, American Founding Father, planter and Governor of South Carolina (1789-92; 1796-98; 1806-08), dies at 67
- Nov 30 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, German-Scottish cellist and composer, dies at 87
- Dec 21 James Parkinson, English physician (First description of Parkinson's disease) and political activist, dies at 69
- Dec 25 Barbara Juliane, baroness von Krüdener, Baltic German religious mystic, author, and Pietist Lutheran theologian, dies at 60
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