- Feb 4 Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral/minister of Navy
- Feb 8 Joseph Leopold von Eybler, Austrian composer, born in Schwechat, Habsburg Empire (now Austria) (d. 1846)
- Feb 11 Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (Caïus Gracchus), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1811)
- Feb 15 Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker)
- Feb 22 Alexander Campbell, composer
- Feb 28 Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist