- Feb 8 Jacob Georg Agarah, Swedish botanist, born in Lund, Sweden (d. 1901)
- Feb 11 Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865)
- Feb 13 Charles Pierre Schimpf, Dutch general (Governor of Suriname 1855-59) (d. 1886)
- Feb 14 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer, born in Troitsko village, Tula, Russia (d. 1869)
- Feb 14 John McNeil, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (d. 1891)
- Feb 16 Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1892)
- Feb 16 Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, Ukrainian baritone, playwright, and composer, born in Gorodishche (d. 1873)