- Feb 3 Florido Toméoni, Italian composer, and playwright, born in Camaiore, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1820)
- Feb 11 Albert Christoph Dies, German painter, engraver and biographer of Josef Haydn, born in Hanover (d. 1822)
- Feb 13 Francois Alexander Sallantin, French composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1816)