- Feb 2 Gottfried August Homilius, composer
- Feb 22 Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
- Feb 25 Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782)
- Feb 25 René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
- Feb 26 James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)