- Feb 4 Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer, dies at 43
- Feb 4 Willem Crul, British admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War at 59
- Feb 15 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Saxon playwright/critic, dies at 52
- Feb 23 George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (for Pennsylvania), dies at about 64 or 65
- Feb 24 Edward Capell, English critic, dies at 67
- Feb 28 Richard Stockton, American attorney and signer of Declaration of Independence, dies at 50