- Feb 10 David Brewster, Scottish physicist and inventor (kaleidoscope), dies at 86
- Feb 11 Leon Foucault, French physicist whose pendulum proved that the Earth rotates, dies at 48
- Feb 23 Andrew Strath, Scottish golfer (British Open 1865), dies at 30
- Feb 29 Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (1825-48), dies at 81
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