- Feb 10 Francis Danby, Irish painter, dies at 67
- Feb 12 Hippolyte-André-Baptiste Chélard, French violist, composer and conductor, dies at 72
- Feb 18 Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 74
- Feb 21 Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish botanist and founder of Laestadianism, dies at 61