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Events
- January 5 – In Paris, Antonio Salieri signs a contract with the Opéra for a work entitled Les Danaïdes.
- January 7 – Composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny marries Amélie de Villemagne.
- August – Louis Anseaume, opera librettist
- August 6 – Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (born 1726)
- August 4 – Giovanni Battista Martini, composer (born 1706)
- September – John Bennett, organist and composer (born c.1735)
- September 5 – Maria Linley, singer (born 1763)
- September 12 – Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist and composer (born 1750)
- October 5 (or 1785) – Antonín Kammel, violinist and composer (born 1730)
- November 6 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (born 1762)
- date unknown
- John Pixell, poet and composer (born 1725)
- Yekaterina Sinyavina, pianist and composer (date of birth unknown)