- Feb 1 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, born in Paris, France (d. 1905)
- Feb 2 Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
- Feb 2 Oswald Aschenbach, German landscape painter, born in Düsseldorf, Prussia (d. 1905)
- Feb 19 Charles Robert Woods, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1855)
- Feb 20 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, American politician, lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Unadilla, New York (d. 1912)
- Feb 22 James Barnet Fry, American historian and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Carrollton, Illinois (d. 1894)
- Feb 24 Charles Davis Jameson, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Gorham, Maine (d. 1862)
- Feb 27 Richard W Johnson, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Livingston County, Kentucky (d. 1897)