- Feb 3 Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes y Pérez, 1st Count of Campomanes, Spanish economist and literary, dies at 79
- Feb 9 Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
- Feb 16 Giovanni Punto [Jan Václav Stich], Bohemian horn player and composer, dies at 56
- Feb 18 J W L Gleim, writer, dies
- Feb 20 Marie Dumesnil, French actress (Iphigénie en Aulide), dies at 90
- Feb 21 Edward Despard, Irish born British officer, convicted for organising a conspiracy against the government and hung in front of a crowd of 20,000 in London