- Feb 1 Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (Olympic gold 100/200m 1896), soccer forward (1 cap) and manager (Hungary 1906), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1955)
- Feb 1 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, American politician (1st woman elected to US Senate, Senator for Arkansas 1931-45), born near Bakerville, Tennessee (d. 1950) [1]
- Feb 1 Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
André Citroën (1878-1935)
Feb 5 French automobile pioneer, born in Paris, France
- Feb 6 Waclaw Gieburowski, Polish conductor and composer, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland (d. 1943)
- Feb 7 Ossip Gabrilovich, Russian-American pianist, conductor (Detroit Symphony, 1918-36), and composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1936)
- Feb 8 Leonard Moon, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, Cambridge University CC, Middlesex CCC), born in London, England (d. 1916)
- Feb 8 Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli dialogue philosopher and theologist (Ich und Du), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
- Feb 12 Clarence "Pants" Rowland, American baseball manager (World Series 1917; Chicago White Sox 1915-18) and MLB umpire (American League 1923-27), born in Platteville, Wisconsin (d. 1969)
- Feb 14 Julius Nieuwland, Belgian-American chemist (inventor of 1st synthetic rubber neoprene), born in Hansbeke, Belgium (d. 1936)
- Feb 16 (Vincenzo) "Big Jim" Colosimo, Italian-American gangster, born in Colosimi, Calabria, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1920)
- Feb 16 Selim Palmgren, Finnish concert pianist, composer (Hakkapeliittojen marssi), conductor, and pedagogue, born in Pori, Finland (d. 1951)
- Feb 21 Fritz Cortolezis, German conductor, opera director, and composer, born in Passau, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1934)
- Feb 21 Mirra Richard [The Mother], French-born Indian spiritual leader (Sri Aurobindo), born in Paris, France (d. 1973)
- Feb 22 Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
- Feb 23 Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
- Feb 27 Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
Charles Strite (1878-1956)
Feb 27 American inventor who invented the automatic pop-up toaster, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Feb 28 Artur Kapp, Estonian organist, composer (Peace Symphony; Paradise and Peri), and educator, born in Suure-Jaani, Russian Empire (d. 1952)
- Feb 28 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)