Feb 17 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, German composer and musician, born in Reichenbach, Prussia (d. 1887)
Mar 19 Johannes Verhulst, Dutch composer and conductor, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1891)
Mar 27 George Elvey, British organist and composer, born in Canterbury, England (d. 1893)
Apr 13 William Sterndale Bennett, English composer, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (d. 1875)
May 14 Gualtiero Sanelli, Italian composer, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (d. 1861)
Jul 24 Józef Michał Poniatowski [Giuseppe Michele Luci], Poilsh-Italian-French nobleman, diplomat, operatic tenor, and composer, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1873)
Aug 16 Joseph Robinson, Irish singer, organist and composer, born in Dublin (d. 1898)
Sep 1 Gustav Schmidt, German composer and conductor, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (now Germany) (d. 1882)
Sep 4 François Bazin, French composer, born in Marseille, France (d. 1878)
Sep 15 Edward Wolff, Polish pianist and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1880)
Sep 25 Anton de Kontski [Antoni Kątski], Polish-American pianist and composer (Awakening Of The Lion), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1899) [some sources cite birth as 1817-10-27]
Oct 6 William Batchelder Bradbury, American composer, born in York, Maine (d. 1868)
Nov 14 John Curwen, English Congregationalist minister and founder of Tonic sol-fa music system, born in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire (d. 1880)
Nov 17 August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian Czech musicologist (History of Music), born in Vysoké Mýto, Bohemia (d. 1876)
Nov 29 Carl Binder, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1860)