- Feb 2 Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895)
Feb 3 American abolitionist and writer (American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses), dies at 91
Frederick Douglass (c. 1817/18-1895)
Feb 20 African-American abolitionist, lecturer and editor who was also an escaped slave, dies of a heart attack at 77
- Feb 24 Ignaz Lachner, German composer, dies at 87
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