- Feb 2 Fabio Campana, Italian composer and opera director, dies at 63
- Feb 3 Guglielmo Quarenghi, Italian composer and cellist, dies at 55
- Feb 3 Mary Elizabeth Lange, Cuban-American educator, Catholic nun, and co-founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African-American Catholic religious order, dies at about 92 [birthdate uncertain, c. 1769]