Jan 20 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian French composer, born in Philippeville, Belgium (d. 1842)
Jan 21 Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, Italian music publisher and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1827 or 1828)
Feb 19 Friedrich Franz Hurka, Bohemian operatic tenor, conductor, and composer, born in Merklin, Bohemia (d. 1805)
Mar 24 Marcos Portugal [Marcos Antonio da Fonseca Portugal], Portuguese-Brazilian opera, sacred music, and national anthem composer (Portugal - "Hymno Patriótico", 1809; Brazil - "Hino da Independência", 1822), born in Portugal (d. 1830)
Mar 25 Francesco Giuseppe Pollini, Italian composer, singer, and pupil of Mozart, born in Ljubljana, Habsburg Empire (d. 1846)
Apr 4 Stephen Storace, English composer, born in London, England (d. 1796)
Apr 13 Charles Frederick Horn, German-English composer, arranger, and organist, born in Imperial City of Nordhausen (d. 1830)
Jun 24 Johann Paul Wessely [Jan Pavel Veselý], Czech violinist and composer, born in Hluboká nad Vltavou (Frauenberg), Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1810)
Jul 4 Marco Santucci, Italian maestro di cappella (S. Giovanni (Laterano), 1797–1808), and composer, born in Camaiore, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1843)
Jul 20 Jakob Haibel, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1826)
Aug 10 Santiago Ferrer, Spanish composer, born in Spain (d. 1824)
Oct 4 Tommaso Sogner, Italian composer, born in Villa S Pedro Pescador, Gerona (d. 1821)
Oct 15 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer, born in Boxford, Massachusetts (d. 1820)
Dec 26 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, German clarinetist, composer, and teacher, born in Heidelberg, Margraviate of Baden (d. 1817)