John L. Sullivan (1858-1918)
Feb 2 American boxer (first heavyweight gloved champion, de facto 1882-92; last heavyweight bare-knuckle champion), dies at 59
- Feb 4 Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, dies at 49
- Feb 6 Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and cartoonist, dies at 55
- Feb 7 Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, Russian composer, dies at 68
- Feb 9 Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends), dies at 30
- Feb 10 Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909), dies at 75
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833-1918)
Feb 10 Italian journalist, soldier and pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), dies at 84
- Feb 11 Taytu Betul, Empress of Ethiopia (1889-13) and founder of Addis Ababa, dies at 66 or 67
- Feb 15 Vernon Castle [Blyth] English-American vaudeville, stage, and screen ballroom dancer, and fighter pilot, dies in a plane crash at 30
- Feb 21 Neltje Blanchan, American nature writer, dies at 52
- Feb 23 Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, dies at 35
- Feb 26 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, Spanish violinist and composer, dies at 74
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