- Feb 7 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer, dies at 57
- Feb 12 Guillaume Albert Teniers, Flemish composer, dies at 71
- Feb 14 Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, son of French King Charles X, assassinated by a Bonapartist at 42
- Feb 14 Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician and founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires, dies at 61
- Feb 15 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public, dies at 63
- Feb 15 William Ellery, US attorney (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 92
- Feb 16 Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero, dies at 61
- Feb 29 Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743)