• Monarch – Frederick VI^[1]
• Prime minister – Frederik Moltke

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• Andreas Marschall establishes a piano factory in Copenhagen.

• 25 February – Carl Christian Hall, politician, Danish prime minister (died 1888)
• 8 March – Louis Gurlitt, painter (died 1897)
• 24 March – Carl Dahl, painter (died 1865)
• 25 May – Thorald Brendstrup, painter (died 1883)
• 29 August – Adolph Peter Adler, theologian (died 1869)
• 22 November – Johanne Luise Heiberg, actress (died 1890)
• 24 December – Carl Balsgaard, painter (died 1893)

• 16 January – Pierre Peschier, merchant (born 1739)
• 27 January – Martha Wærn, philanthropist (born 1741)
• 21 September – Poul Skibsted, lawyer (born 1753)
• 26 October – Hans Peter Holm, naval officer (born 1772)