- Feb 6 John Pegram, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 33
- Feb 7 John Henry Winder, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and provost marshal, dies at 64
- Feb 10 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
- Feb 15 Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies at 62
- Feb 24 Edmund John Armstrong, Irish poet, dies at 23
- Feb 25 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47