- Feb 9 Adriaan Kluit, Dutch scholar and historian, born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1807)
- Feb 10 Johann Christoph Kuhnau, German composer, church musician choral director, and teacher, born in Volkstedt, Saxony (now Germany) (d. 1805)
- Feb 25 Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, German composer, born in Grossen Behringen, Thuringia (d. 1792)