- Feb 8 Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, dies at 52
- Feb 10 Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein and general, dies at 75
- Feb 15 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, German organist, kapellmeister, and composer, dies at 69
- Feb 18 Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)