- Jan 13 Thomas Lord, English cricket batsman (founder of Lord's cricket ground; Middlesex CCC), dies at 76
- Jan 28 Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
- Feb 1 Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician, dies at 55
- Feb 1 Ecco Epkema, Dutch classic linguist (Frisian, Old Frisian), dies at 71
- Feb 3 George Crabbe, English poet (Everlasting Mercy), dies at 77
- Feb 10 Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, Italian composer, dies at 84
- Feb 15 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, Danish flautist, composer, choral director, and music educator (Blaagaard Seminarium, 1791-1811), dies at 85
- Mar 4 Jean-François Champollion, French scholar who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics with the Rosetta Stone, dies at 41
- Mar 10 Muzio Clementi, Italian-English pianist, composer, music publisher, and piano maker, dies at 80
- Mar 12 Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish opera composer, dies at 45
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Mar 22 German writer and social philosopher (Faust), dies at 82
- Mar 23 Wilhelm Würfel, Bohemian pianist, conductor, teacher, and composer, dies at 41
- Mar 30 Stephen Groombridge, English Astronomer, dies at 77
- Apr 1 Robert the Hermit, US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies
- Apr 12 Shadrach Bond, American politician (1st Governor of Illinois, 1818 to 1822), dies of pneumonia at 58
- May 4 Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
May 13 French naturalist and zoologist, dies at 62
- May 14 John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried
- May 15 Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, dies at 73
- May 18 Bonafacio Asioli, Italian composer, dies at 62
- May 26 François-Louis Perne, French composer, dies at 59
- May 31 Évariste Galois, French mathematician (Group theory), dies at 20
- Jun 2 Manuel del Popolo García, Spanish composer and tenor, dies at 57
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jun 6 English philosopher, social reformer and founder of modern utilitarianism, dies at 84
- Jun 10 Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer, dies at 57
- Jun 23 James Hall, Scottish geologist, dies at 70
- Jun 27 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, French army officer, and composer ("La Marseillaise" -the French national anthem), dies at 72
- Jul 22 Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte, French Prince Imperial and King of Rome (never ruled France) dies of tuberculosis at 21
- Jul 30 Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832)
Aug 24 French mechanical engineer and mathematician known as the "father of thermodynamics", dies of cholera at 36
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Sep 21 Scottish historical novelist and poet (The Lady of the Lake, Ivanhoe), dies at 61
- Sep 27 Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher, dies at 51
- Oct 18 Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, Belgian composer, dies at 73
- Nov 3 Pietro Generali, Italian composer, dies at 59
- Nov 14 Charles Carroll, Wealthy Maryland planter who was the last signer of the Declaration of Independence to pass away, dies at 95
- Nov 14 Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist and philologist (Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language), dies of tuberculosis at 44
- Nov 15 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63
- Dec 18 Philip Freneau, American poet of the American Revolution (The American Village), dies at 80
- Dec 22 Ishmail Spicer, American composer, dies at 72
- Dec 30 Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
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