Famous Birthdays
- Feb 3 Guillaume Lasceux, composer
- Feb 7 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP
- Feb 12 Matej Sojka, Bohemian composer, born in Vilémov (d. 1817)
- Feb 15 Ernst Eichner, German composer and bassoonist, born in Arolsen (d. 1777)
- Feb 16 Giambattista Bodoni, Italian printer and typeface designer (Bodoni), born in Saluzzo
- Feb 17 Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist
Famous Deaths
- Feb 6 Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italian Pope (1730-40) who despite ill health and total blindness (1732) unsuccessfully stemmed decline of papal influence, dies at 87
- Feb 9 Vincenz Lubeck, German composer, dies at 85
- Feb 29 Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal and grandnephew of Pope Alexander VIII, dies at 72
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