Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907)
Feb 2 Russian chemist and inventor who devised the periodic table of the elements, dies at 72
- Feb 5 Ludwig Thuille, Austrian composer (sextet for piano and wind quintet), dies of a heart attack at 45
- Feb 8 Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52
- Feb 10 William Howard Russell, Irish war pioneering correspondent, dies at 87
- Feb 12 Muriel Robb, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902), dies of lymphadenoma at 28
- Feb 13 Marcel Bertrand, French geologist and mine engineer (tectonic geology), dies at 59
- Feb 16 Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate 1906 regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy, dies at 71
- Feb 17 Henry Steel Olcott, American military officer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society, dies at 74
Henri Moissan (1852-1907)
Feb 20 French chemist who isolated the element "fluorine" from its compounds (Nobel 1906), dies of appendicitis at 54
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