- Feb 2 Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician to Queen Anne, dies at 72
- Feb 12 Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France, dies of measles at 26
- Feb 18 Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir-apparent to the French throne, dies at 29
- Feb 27 Bahādur Shah I, 8th Mughal Emperor of India (1702-12), dies at 68