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=== February ===
* [[February 1]] – [[Bill Johnston (pirate)|Bill Johnston]], American pirate (d. [[1870]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[James Chalmers (inventor)|James Chalmers]], alleged Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (d. [[1853]])
** [[Henri de Rigny]], commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence (d. [[1835]])
* [[February 3]]
** [[John Macdonald Kinneir]], British diplomat (d. [[1830]])
** [[John Lamont (sugar planter)|John Lamont]], Scottish sugar planter in Trinidad (d. [[1850]])
** [[William Pinnock]], British publisher and educational writer (d. [[1843]])
** [[Ansel Sterling]], American politician (d. [[1853]])
* [[February 4]]
** [[Charles William Grant, 5th Baron de Longueuil]] (d. [[1848]])
** [[Henry Lee (economist)|Henry Lee]], US political economist (d. [[1867]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Fyodor Tolstoy (adventurer)|Fyodor Tolstoy]], Russian explorer (d. [[1846]])
* [[February 8]]
** [[Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer]], Russian botanist (d. [[1854]])
** [[Juan Cuevas Perales]], Spanish composer (d. [[1855]])
** [[Malla Silfverstolpe]], Swedish salon-holder (d. [[1861]])
* [[February 9]]
** [[William Havell]], British artist (d. [[1857]])
** [[Philip Shuttleworth]], English churchman and academic, Bishop of Chichester (d. [[1842]])
* [[February 10]]
** [[Robert Hallowell Gardiner]], American land owner (d. [[1864]])
** [[Jean-Marie-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny]], French magistrate (d. [[1852]])
** [[Niels Arntzen Sem]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1859]])
** [[Ashur Ware]], United States federal judge (d. [[1873]])
* [[February 11]]
** [[William Lowndes (congressman)|William Lowndes]], American politician, enslaver (d. [[1822]])
** [[Henri Jean de Rouvroy, Marquis of Saint-Simon]], French soldier, diplomat, politician, officer (d. [[1865]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Auguste de Schonen]], French politician (d. [[1849]])
* [[February 14]]
** [[Eleanora Atherton]], English philanthropist (d. [[1870]])
** [[Ephraim Sturdivant]], American veteran (d. [[1868]])
* [[February 15]]
** [[John H. Dent]], United States Navy officer (d. [[1823]])
** [[William Miller (preacher)|William Miller]], American religious leader (d. [[1849]])
** [[Louis Perrin]], Irish politician (d. [[1864]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Thomas Baxter (painter)|Thomas Baxter]], British artist (d. [[1821]])
* [[February 19]]
** [[Christopher Anderson (theologian)|Christopher Anderson]], theological writer and preacher (d. [[1852]])
** [[Henry Bentley (cricketer)|Henry Bentley]], English first-class cricketer (d. [[1857]])
** [[Princess Pauline, Duchess of Sagan]], Princess of Courland (d. [[1845]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Karl Stefan Aichelburg]], Austrian musician (d. [[1817]])
** [[James Towers English]], Irish military commander (d. [[1819]])
** [[John Gebhard]], American politician (d. [[1854]])
** [[Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann]], German mineralogist (d. [[1859]])
* [[February 23]]
** [[John Wilson Campbell]], US federal judge (d. [[1833]])
** [[Peder Nielsen Hemb]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1850]])
** [[Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl]], Australian botanist, entomologist, geologist, physician (d. [[1834]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Thomas Uwins]], British artist (d. [[1857]])
* [[February 25]] – [[William Sturgis]], American merchant and politician (d. [[1863]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello]], French noble (d. [[1856]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Marie Thérèse Haze]], Belgian Religious Sister and foundress, beatified (d. [[1876]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Josef Božek]], Czech engineer and inventor (d. [[1835]])