- Feb 18 John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist, dies at 75
- Feb 20 Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68
- Feb 21 Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, dies at 64
- Feb 22 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
- Feb 28 Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)