- Feb 1 Agustín de Betancourt, Spanish civil engineer (steam engines, hot air balloons), born in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (d. 1824)
- Feb 4 Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, French ballet dancer and choreographer (In L'Offrande à la Liberté), born in Nancy, France (d. 1840)
- Feb 7 Benedikt Schack, Bohemian-born composer and singer and friend of Mozart, born in Mirotice, Bohemia (d. 1826)
- Feb 12 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, English clergyman and composer (Selection of Sacred Music), born in the Fulneck Moravian Settlement, Yorkshire (d. 1836)
- Feb 17 John Pinkerton, Scottish anti-Celtic historian, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1826)