- Feb 1 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Feb 5 Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18) and King of Norway (1814-18), dies at 69
- Feb 13 Absalom Jones, African-American abolitionist and clergyman, dies at 71
- Feb 13 George Rogers Clark, American frontier military leader in Revolutionary War, dies at 65
- Feb 28 Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dutch publisher and writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56
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