- Feb 3 Joseph Weigl, Austrian composer and conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79
- Feb 9 Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
- Feb 14 Cornelis Felix van Maanen, Dutch Minister of Justice (1807-42), dies at 76
- Feb 18 Giovanni Liverati, Italian composer, dies at 73
- Feb 21 Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
- Feb 22 Carolus Antonius Fodor [Carel Anton Fodor], Dutch pianist, conductor and prominent composer, dies at 77
- Feb 22 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [OS]