Clark Gable (1901-1960)
Feb 1 American actor (Gone With The Wind; It Happened One Night) known as 'The King of Hollywood', born in Cadiz, Ohio
- Feb 2 Connie Gilchrist, American actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1985)
- Feb 2 Jascha Heifetz, Russian-American violin virtuoso (Carnegie Hall debut -1917), born in Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) (d. 1987)
- Feb 6 Ben Lyon, American actor (Hell's Angels, I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1979)
- Feb 7 Bob den Doolaard [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer and journalist (Grape Pickers), born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1994)
- Feb 8 Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Polish archer (5x record world champion), born in Starosielce, Russian Empire (d. 1979)
- Feb 9 Brian Donlevy, American actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1972)
- Feb 9 James Murray, American actor (The Crowd, The Shakedown), born in New York City (d. 1936)
- Feb 10 Stella Adler, American actress (Love on Toast; My Girl Tisa), and teacher (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), born in New York City (d. 1992)
- Feb 11 (Anton) "Tony" Hulman Jr., American businessman and motorsport entrepreneur (owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 1945-77), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1977)
- Feb 11 Roddy Connolly, Irish politician, son of James Connolly (d. 1980)
- Feb 15 Andre Parrot, French archaeologist (Mari, Assur), born in Désandans, France (d. 1980)
- Feb 15 Christmas Humphreys, English lawyer and prominent British Buddhist (Awakening of Zen), born in Ealing, England (d. 1983)
- Feb 15 James "Kokomo" Arnold, American blues slide guitarist, and singer, born in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia (d. 1968) [some sources give birth year as 1896]
- Feb 15 Paul Haesaerts, Belgian architect and painter (Animisme), born in Boom, Belgium (d. 1974)
- Feb 16 Chester Morris, American actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), born in New York City (d. 1970)
- Feb 16 Wayne King, American saxophonist and bandleader, known as the Waltz King ("The Waltz You Saved for Me"), born in Savannah, Illinois (d. 1985)
- Feb 18 Reginald Sheffield, British actor (Suspicion, Of Human Bondage, Second Chance), born in London, England (d. 1957)
- Feb 20 Cecil Harmsworth King, Irish-British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror), born in Totteridge, England (d. 1987)
- Feb 20 Fred Robinson, American jazz trombonist (Louis Armstong's Hot Five; Fats Waller; Cab Calloway), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1984)
- Feb 20 Henry Eyring, Mexican-American chemist (chemical reaction rates), born in Colonia Juárez, Mexico (d. 1981)
- Feb 20 Louis Kahn, Estonian-born American architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory), born in Osel, Estonia, Russian Empire (d. 1974)
- Feb 20 Mohamed Naguib, Egyptian general and revolutionary (one of the leaders of Egyptian Revolution, 1st President of Egypt 1952-54), born in Khartoum, Sudan (d. 1984)
- Feb 20 René Dubos, French-American microbiologist and author (1969 Pulitzer Prize, made famous "Think globally, act locally"), born in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France (d. 1982)
- Feb 22 Charles Evans Whittaker, American Supreme Court justice (1957-62), born near Troy, Kansas (d. 1973)
- Feb 22 Mildred Davis, American silent screen actress (Grandma's Boy; Haunted Spooks; I Do!), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1969)
- Feb 22 Stefan Lorant, Hungarian-American writer, photojournalist, filmmaker, born in Budapest (d. 1997)
- Feb 23 Edgar Ende, German surrealist painter, born in Altona, Germany (d. 1965) [1]
- Feb 23 Mien van 't Sant, Dutch author (Mieke serial), born in Gorinchem, Netherlands (d. 1994)
- Feb 25 Federico Ghisi, Italian chemist, musicologist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Shanghai, China (d. 1975)
- Feb 25 Zeppo Marx [Herbert Manfred Marx], American comedian and actor (Marx Brothers), born in New York City (d. 1979)
- Feb 27 Horatio Luro, American horse trainer (43 x stakes winners; Decidedly, Northern Dancer), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1991)
- Feb 27 Marino Marini, Italian sculptor (The Pilgrim - Houston), born in Pistoia, Italy (d. 1980)
Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
Feb 28 American chemist, engineer and peace activist (1954 Nobel prize for Chemistry, 1962 Nobel Peace Prize), born in Portland, Oregon
- Feb 28 Otakar Pařík, Czech pianist and conductor, born in Frýdek-Místek, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1955)
- Feb 28 Rudolf Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1929)
About February 1901
How Old? 123 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: No