Editing 1796 (section)

=== February ===
* [[February 1]] – [[Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich]], Swiss poet (d. [[1865]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[François Vincent Latil]], French painter (d. [[1890]])
** [[William Richardson (astronomer)|William Richardson]], British astronomer (d. [[1872]])
** [[Henry Wyllys Taylor]], American judge (d. [[1888]])
* [[February 3]]
** [[Peter Ihrie Jr.]], American politician (d. [[1871]])
** [[Jean-Baptiste Madou]], lithographer, painter (d. [[1877]])
* [[February 4]]
** [[Erasmus Engert]], Austrian painter and restorer (d. [[1871]])
** [[William Nanson Lettsom]], British man of letters (d. [[1815]])
* [[February 5]]
** [[Pieter Godfried Bertichen]], Dutch painter (d. [[1856]])
** [[Nicholas H. Cobbs]], American bishop (d. [[1861]])
** [[Johannes von Geissel]], Catholic cardinal (d. [[1864]])
** [[Morris Ketchum]], American railway entrepreneur (d. [[1880]])
** [[Léon Talabot]], French engineer and politician (d. [[1863]])
* [[February 6]]
** [[John Stevens Henslow]], British botanist, priest and geologist (d. [[1861]])
** [[Alfred Lyall (traveller)|Alfred Lyall]], English philosopher, editor, clergyman and traveller (d. [[1865]])
* [[February 7]]
** [[José da Costa Carvalho, Marquis of Monte Alegre]], Brazilian politician (d. [[1860]])
** [[Thomas Gregson]], 2nd Premier of Tasmania, Australia (d. [[1874]])
** [[Marie-Françoise Perroton]], French nun (d. [[1873]])
* [[February 8]]
** [[Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin]], one of the founders of Saint-Simonianism (d. [[1864]])
** [[George Washington Toland]], American politician (d. [[1869]])
* [[February 9]]
** [[Samuel M. Moore]], American politician (d. [[1875]])
** [[Thomas Tucker (cricketer)|Thomas Tucker]], English first-class cricketer (d. [[1832]])
* [[February 10]]
** [[Henry De la Beche]], English geologist and palaeontologist (d. [[1855]])
** [[Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society)|Henry Venn]], English mission society administrator (d. [[1873]])
* [[February 11]]
** [[John MacDonnell (surgeon)|John MacDonnell]], Irish surgeon and pioneer of surgical anaesthesia in Ireland (d. [[1892]])
** [[John Pontifex (cricketer, born 1796)|John Pontifex]], English cricketer (d. [[1875]])
* [[February 12]]
** [[Hiram Capron]], Founder of the town of Paris, Ontario (d. [[1872]])
** [[Thomas Close]], English antiquarian (d. [[1881]])
** [[Damián Domingo]], Filipino painter (d. [[1834]])
** [[Henry Dutton (politician)|Henry Dutton]], American politician (d. [[1869]])
** [[Benoît-Philibert Perroud]], French entomologist (d. [[1878]])
* [[February 13]]
** [[Hiram F. Mather]], American politician (d. [[1868]])
** [[Adam Norrie]], Scottish-American merchant (d. [[1882]])
** [[Henry Sargant Storer]], British artist (d. [[1837]])
* [[February 14]]
** [[Valentín Carderera]], Spanish painter (d. [[1880]])
** [[William Michell]], English physician and politician (d. [[1872]])
** [[Poul Pagh]], Danish merchant and ship owner (d. [[1870]])
** [[Robert Young (Hawaii chief)|Robert Young]], Hawaiian chief (d. [[1813]])
* [[February 15]]
** [[Pyotr Anjou]], arctic explorer and admiral of Russian Navy (d. [[1869]])
** [[Ali Mirza Zel as-Soltan]], pretender to the throne of Qajar Iran (d. [[1854]])
* [[February 16]]
** [[Felix Tollemache]], British politician (d. [[1843]])
** [[Samuel Charles Whitbread]], British politician (d. [[1879]])
* [[February 17]]
** [[Louis Eugène Marie Bautain]], French philosopher and theologian (d. [[1867]])
** [[Frederick William Beechey]], English naval officer and hydrographer (d. [[1856]])
** [[Roswell Bottum (farmer)|Roswell Bottum]], American politician (d. [[1877]])
** [[Robert Milham Hartley]], co-founder of the temperance movement in New York (d. [[1881]])
** [[Giovanni Pacini]], Italian composer (d. [[1867]])
** [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]], German physician, botanist and explorer (d. [[1866]])
* [[February 18]]
** [[John Bell (Tennessee politician)|John Bell]], American lawyer and politician (d. [[1869]])
** [[Andreas Christian Møller]], Norwegian teacher of the Deaf (d. [[1874]])
** [[Vincenzo Santucci]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1861]])
** [[Abraham P. Stephens]], American politician (d. [[1859]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Lázár Mészáros]], Hungarian military figure (d. [[1858]])
* [[February 21]]
** [[Prince George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau]], German prince (d. [[1865]])
** [[James Sherman (minister)|James Sherman]], British minister (d. [[1862]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Alexis Bachelot]], Roman Catholic priest (d. [[1837]])
** [[Adolphe Quetelet]], Belgian mathematician (d. [[1874]])
** [[John N. Steele]], American politician (d. [[1853]])
** [[George Sweeny]], American politician (d. [[1877]])
* [[February 23]] – [[William W. Wick]], American politician (d. [[1868]])
* [[February 24]]
** [[Gabriel Delafosse]], French mineralogist (d. [[1878]])
** [[Carl Axel Gottlund]], Linguist, folklorist and historian (d. [[1875]])
* [[February 26]]
** [[Prosper Guerrier de Dumast]], French historian, writer and archaeologist (d. [[1883]])
** [[Thomas Galloway]], Scottish mathematician (d. [[1851]])
* [[February 27]] – [[James Planché]], British dramatist, costume designer, and antiquarian (d. [[1880]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Edward Banks (Syndicus)|Edward Banks]], Syndicus of the Free City of Hamburg (d. [[1851]])
** [[Heinrich Carl Breidenstein]], German musicologist (d. [[1876]])
* [[February 29]] – [[Germanicus Mirault]], surgeon (d. [[1879]])