- Feb 4 Sarah Miriam Peale, American portrait painter (General Lafayette, 1825), dies at 84 [1]
- Feb 14 Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
- Feb 15 Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer, and conductor (New York Oratorio Society; New York Symphony), dies at 52
- Feb 18 Charlotte Sainton-Dolby, English contralto and composer, dies at 61
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