• Monarch – Frederick VI^[1]

• 28 February – Spare- og Laanekassen i Marstal, a savings bank on the island of Ørø, is founded by a group of local residents.^[2]

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• Carl Nielsen's Wind Quintet is performed in public for the first time.

• 6 April – August Ferdinand Michael van Mehren, philologist (died 1907)
• 24 April – Henrik August Flindt, gardener and landscape architect (died 1901)
• 17 June – Erik Bøgh, journalist, playwright and songwriter (died 1899)
• 4 July – Vilhelm Christesen, silver smith (died 1899)
• 2 August – Ida Marie Bille, court member (died 1902)
• 15 August – Carl Frederik Blixen-Finecke, politician and nobleman (died 1873 in Germany)

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• Georg Grothe, composer (died 1876)

• 6 January – John Christmas, businessman (born 1757 in England)
• 10 March – Carl Wivel, restaurateur (born 1844)
• 4 May – Hedevig Johanne Bagger, businesswoman (born 1740)
• 20 May – Otto Fabricius, missionary, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer (born 1744)
• 25 September – Erik Viborg, veterinarian and botanist (born 1759)