- Feb 2 Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
- Feb 10 Pierre de La Garde, French composer, singer, and guitarist, born in Crécy-la-Chapelle, France (d. c. 1792)
- Feb 19 David Garrick, English actor, producer and writer (Aboan-Oroonoko), born in Hereford, England (d. 1779)
- Feb 24 Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
- Feb 26 John Randall, British composer (d. 1799)