- Feb 11 Ignaz Assmayer, Austrian organist, and composer of liturgical music, born in Salzberg, Austria (d. 1862)
- Feb 16 Chretien Urhan, French violinist and composer, born in Montjoie (d. 1845)
- Feb 18 Marshall Hall, English physician, physiologist and early neurologist (physiology of reflex function), born in Basford, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1857)