- Jan 12 Joseph A. Koch, Austrian painter, cartoonist, etcher and illustrator, dies at 70
- Jan 19 Georg Abraham Schneider, German horn player and composer, dies at 68
- Feb 1 Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect & archaeologist, dies at 76
- Feb 7 Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
- Feb 15 Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary (b. 1803)
- Feb 26 Sybil Ludington, American revolutionary heroine (rode to alert militia), dies at 77
- Mar 4 Ignace Antoine Ladurner, Austrian pianist and composer, dies at 72
- Mar 13 Robert Gallenberg, Austrian composer, dies at 55
- Mar 29 Bernardus Johannes Dibbets, Dutch baron and general-major (Maastricht), dies at 56
- Apr 1 Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
- Apr 11 John Galt, Scottish novelist (Annals of the Parish), dies at 59
- Apr 20 Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, dies
- Apr 22 Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet, dies at 54
- Apr 23 Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer, dies at 70
- May 3 Ferdinando Paer, Italian opera composer (Agnese), and conductor (Paris Opéra-Italien, 1812-23), dies at 67
- May 13 Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, founded Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
- May 13 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal (Archbishop of Lyon, 1802-39), diplomat, art collector (Musée Fesch), and uncle of Napoleon, dies at 76
- May 17 Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
- May 18 Caroline Bonaparte, Queen consort of Naples and sister of Napoleon, dies at 57
- Jun 2 Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch romantic painter and lithographer (Wrecked), dies at 26
- Jun 9 Gerrit J. Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89
- Jun 10 Nathaniel Pryor, American soldier and sergeant of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies
- Jun 13 Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, French musician and composer, dies at 66
- Jun 15 Hans Skramstad, Norwegian pianist and composer, dies at 41
- Jun 17 Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, British soldier and statesman (Governor-General of India, 1828-1835), dies at 64
- Jun 23 Hester Stanhope, English aristocrat, traveller and archaeologist, dies at 63
- Jun 27 Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies
- Jun 30 Johan Olof Wallin, Swedish poet and archbishop (Dead Angel), dies at 59
Mahmud II (1785-1839)
Jul 1 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-39), dies of tuberculosis at 53
- Jul 10 Fernando Sor, Spanish classical guitarist, and composer (Twelve Studies), dies at 61
- Jul 15 Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English politician and poet, dies at 36
- Jul 29 Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
- Aug 3 Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (Florentin), dies at 74
- Aug 10 John St Aubyn, British fossil collector, dies at 81
- Aug 22 Benjamin Lundy, American Quaker abolitionist and philanthropist, dies at 50
- Aug 23 Charles Philippe Lafont, French violinist and composer, dies at 57
- Aug 28 William Smith, British geologist who is credited with creating the first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils), dies at 70
- Sep 10 Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
- Sep 20 Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74
- Sep 21 (Jacob) Gottfried Weber, German composer, and writer (Theory of Musical Composition), dies at 60
- Oct 11 Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet, dies at 88
- Oct 18 François Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter (court painter to king of Westphalia, dies at 68
- Nov 6 Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec and author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
- Dec 3 Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-39) and Norway (1808-14), dies at 71
- Dec 7 Jan August Vitasek, Bohemian composer working in Prague, dies at 69
- Dec 15 Matthijs Ignatius van Bree, Belgian painter of historical subjects, dies at 66
- Dec 18 Charles-Henri Plantade, French composer, dies at 75
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