- Feb 4 Blas de Laserna, Spanish composer (championed traditional Spanish musical forms), born in Corella, Navarra, Spain (d. 1816)
- Feb 12 Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, French organist (St Géry in Cambrai, 1768-83), and composer, born in Arras, France (d. 1840)
- Feb 18 Karl Haack, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1819)