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

Undated edit

Art edit

• Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg completes The Death of Balder as his admission painted for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
• The 300th anniversary of the Reformation is commemorated with a medal designed by Salomon Ahron Jacobson.

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  Eckersberg's The Death of Balder
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  Medal commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Reformation

January–March edit

• 22 January – Johan Frederik Schlegel, lawyer and civil servant (died 1896)
• 22 February – Niels Gade, composer (died 1890)

April–June edit

• 4 April – P. C. Skovgaard, national romantic landscape painter (died 1875)
• 13 June – Knud Graah, industrial pioneer (died 1909).^[2]

July–September edit

• 7 July – Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician (died 1880)
• 20 July – Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect (died 1871)

October–December edit

• 4 October – Andreas Frederik Krieger, politician (died 1893)
• 26 October – Georg Grüner, landowner, politician and co-founder of Landmandsbanken (died 1890)^[3]
• 13 November – Franziska Carlsen, writer and local historian (died 1876)
• 17 November – Harald Conradsen, sculptor and medalist (died 1905)
• 10 December – Carl Otto Reventlow, philologist, developed a mnemonic system (died 1873)

• 6 April – Joachim Castenschiold, military officer (born 1743)
• 18 November – Hans Rudolph Saabye, businessman (born 1751)
• 28 November – Johan Frederik Schultz printer and publisher (born 1756)

Date unknown edit

• Johanne Marie Malleville, royal favorite (born 1750)
• Moses Melchior, businessman (born 1736)