- Feb 3 Martinus Ballings, Belgian Jesuit author (Will Power) (d. 1958)
- Feb 4 Charles Bally, Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1947)
- Feb 5 Harvey Worthington Loomis, American composer (Lyrics of the Red Man), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1930)
- Feb 9 Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, glaciologist and polar explorer, born in Königsberg, East Prussia (d. 1949)
- Feb 9 Mrs Patrick Campbell [Beatrice Tanner], English actress (Pygmalion), born in London, England (d. 1940)
- Feb 12 Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer and poet (Young Poland), born in Ludźmierz, Galicia (d. 1940)
- Feb 19 Sven Hedin, Swedish scientist and explorer who travelled and mapped Central Asia (Central Asia Atlas), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1952)
- Feb 21 John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
- Feb 22 Otto Modersohn, German landscape painter (Worpswede artist colony), born in Soest (d. 1943)
- Feb 23 Barney Dreyfuss, American Baseball HOF executive (owner Pittsburgh Pirates 1900-32; World Series 1909, 25), born in Freiburg, Germany (d. 1932)
- Feb 28 Arthur Symons, Welsh poet and critic (co-founder Savoy magazine), born in Milford Haven, Wales (d. 1945)
- Feb 28 Wilfred Grenfell, British medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, born in Neston, England (d. 1940)