Feb 2 Christian Gottfried Thomas, German composer, publisher, and musicologist, born in Wehrsdorf, (d. 1806)
Feb 5 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer, conductor and tutor of Ludwig van Beethoven, born in Shimnitz, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany) (d. 1798)
Feb 6 Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher & founder of the Order of the Illuminati, born in Ingolstadt, Germany (d. 1811)