- Feb 2 Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856)
- Feb 16 Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859)
Wilhelm Grimm
Feb 24 Wilhelm Grimm, German story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales), born in Hanau, Hesse-Cassel, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1859)

Wilhelm Grimm