- Feb 7 Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer
- Feb 8 Maxime Du Camp, French writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
- Feb 9 Charles T Stork, Dutch industrialist
- Feb 13 Lev A Mej, Russian nobleman/poet
- Feb 15 Theodor Uhlig, composer
- Feb 16 Francis Galton, British anthropologist and geneticist (eugenics), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1911)
- Feb 16 James Patton Anderson, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1872)
- Feb 22 Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
- Feb 27 Eugene Gautier, composer
- Feb 28 Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)