- Feb 8 Paul Anton Wineberger, composer, dies at 62
- Feb 21 Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
John Keats
Feb 23 John Keats, English Romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), dies of tuberculosis at 25

John Keats
Feb 23 John Keats, English Romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), dies of tuberculosis at 25