- Feb 7 Cristóbal Oudrid, Spanish pianist, conductor, and orchestral and zarzuela composer (Rondeña; El molinero de Subiza), born in Badajoz, Spain (d. 1877)
- Feb 15 Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)
- Feb 18 Carl Faust, Prussian military musician and composer (Marsch Glück auf - Lucky March), and conductor, born in Neisse, Province of Silesia, Prussia (now Nysa, Poland) (d. 1892)
- Feb 22 Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe, born in Saint-Maurice de Pionsat, France (d. 1898)
- Feb 28 Quincy Adams Gillmore, American civil engineer, author, and Major General (Union Army), born in Lorain County, Ohio (d. 1888)