- Feb 3 Charles Follis "The Black Cyclone", American football halfback (1st black pro player Shelby Blues 1902-06), born in Cloverdale, Virginia (d. 1910)
- Feb 5 Edward Rigby, British actor (Star Look Down, Young & Innocent), born in Ashford, Kent, England (d. 1951)
- Feb 6 Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (Ramsauer-Townsend effect), born in Oldenburg, Germany (d. 1879)
- Feb 6 Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Chilean educator, lawyer, and politician (President of Chile, 1938-41; Senator for Concepción, 1921-27), born in Pocuro, Chile (d. 1941)
- Feb 9 Jacques Bainville, French historian, essayist and journalist, born in Vincennes, France (d. 1936)
- Feb 9 [Carl] Natanael Berg, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1957)
- Feb 10 Franz Carl Bornschein, American composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1948)
- Feb 11 Jean Gilbert [Max Winterfeld], German composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1942)
- Feb 13 Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter and poet, born in Hyperbad, India (d. 1949)
- Feb 17 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American novelist and social reformer (managed 1st US adult education program, helped conscientious objectors), born in Lawrence, Kansas (d. 1958)
- Feb 22 Norman Lindsay, Australian artist and novelist (The Magic Pudding), born in Creswick Victoria (d. 1969) [1]
- Feb 23 Agnes Arber, English biologist and philosopher (Mind & the Eye, 1st woman botanist elected to the Royal Society), born in London, England (d. 1960)
- Feb 24 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun), born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium (d. 1967)
- Feb 25 Otakar Ostrcil, Czech composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1935)
- Feb 26 Frank Bridge, English violinist, composer, conductor and tutor of Benjamin Britten, born in Brighton, England (d. 1941)
- Feb 27 José Sancho Marraco, Spanish composer, organist and chapel master (Cathedral of Barcelona, 1923-57), born in La Garriga, Spain (d. 1960)
- Feb 28 James "Soup" Perkins, American jockey (Kentucky Derby 1985; winningest jockey in America 1895), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1911)