Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1830-1903)
Feb 3 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1885-86, 1886-92 and 1895-1902), born in Hatfield, England
- Feb 6 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Franklin, Indiana (d. 1865)
- Feb 9 Abdulaziz, Ottoman Sultan (1861-76), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1876)
- Feb 11 Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, Prussian composer and musician (d. 1913)
- Feb 11 Peter Arnold Heise, Danish composer (Drot og Marsk), (d. 1879)