- Feb 3 Guillaume Lasceux, French organist and composer, born in Poissy, France (d. 1831)
- Feb 7 Adam-Philippe Custine, French general (American Revolutionary War, French Army of the North, executed for treason during Reign of Terror), born in Metz, France (d. 1793)
- Feb 12 Matej Sojka, Bohemian composer, born in Vilémov (d. 1817)
- Feb 15 Ernst Eichner, German composer and bassoonist, born in Arolsen, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1777)
- Feb 16 Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer (Bodoni), printer and publisher, born in Saluzzo, Italy (d. 1813)
- Feb 17 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and geologist, born in Conches, Switzerland (d. 1799)