Feb 4 Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret, Portuguese poet, playwright (Frei Luís de Sousa) and statesman, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1854)
Feb 5 John Lindley, English botanist (Elements of Botany), born in Catton, England (d. 1865)
Feb 11 Basil Moreau, French Founder priest (d. 1873)
Feb 26 Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)