- Feb 9 Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
- Feb 11 Jarena Lee, African American travelling minister (1st woman preacher in African Methodist Episcopal Church), born in Cape May, New Jersey (d. 1864)
- Feb 15 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, Bavarian composer, born in Rattiszell, Bavaria (d. 1865)
- Feb 21 Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (VP: Imperial Academy of Arts 1828-68), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1873)
- Feb 21 Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)