- Feb 1 George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
- Feb 2 Hans E Schack, Danish politician and writer (Phantasterne - Fantasy), born in Sengeløse, Denmark (d. 1820)
- Feb 3 Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic naval surgeon and Artic explorer (led expedition to Greenland discover fate of John Franklin), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1857)
Doc Durant (1820-1885)
Feb 6 American financier and railroad promoter (Transcontinental Railroad-Union Pacific), born in Lee, Massachusetts
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
Feb 8 American Major General in the Union Army, born in Lancaster, Ohio
- Feb 13 (Albert) Béla Kéler, Hungarian composer, and conductor, born in Bártfa, Kingdom of Hungary (now Bardejov, Slovakia) (d. 1882)
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Feb 15 American social reformer and women's suffrage movement leader, born in Adams, Massachusetts
- Feb 17 Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
- Feb 17 Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violin prodigy, composer, and teacher (Brussels Conservatory), born in Verviers, United Kingdom of the Netherlands (d. 1881)
- Feb 20 Mahlon Dickerson Manson, American druggist politician and General (Union Army), born in Piqua, Ohio (d. 1895)
- Feb 28 John Tenniel, English cartoonist and illustrator (Punch, Alice in Wonderland), born in London, England (d. 1914)
- Feb 29 Adolf Schimon, Austrian German composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1887)