- Feb 1 Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Swedish lieder and classical composer, born in Skänninge, Sweden (d. 1878)
- Feb 1 Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)
Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
Feb 1 American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School), born in Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, England
- Feb 7 John Rylands, English cloth merchant and philanthropist (Rylands & Sons, Manchester's 1st multi-millionaire), born in Parr, England (d. 1888)
- Feb 21 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda [Jan Kalivoda], Bohemian violinist, composer, and court conductor, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1866)
- Feb 21 John Henry Newman, British thologian (Tract 90), educator, poet (Dream of Gerontius), Anglican priest, Catholic priest, cardinal and saint, born in London, England (d. 1890)