- Feb 2 Luigi Mancinelli, Italian conductor, cellist and composer, dies at 72
- Feb 3 Max Wilhelm Zach, Polish-American violinist and conductor (Boston Symphony 1896-1907; St. Louis Symphony, 1907-21), dies at 56
- Feb 4 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter and illustrator, dies at 75
- Feb 8 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Russian activist and anarchist, dies at 78
- Feb 12 Charles Leslie, English cricketer (4 Tests England v Australia 1882-83), dies at 59
- Feb 13 Willem P C Knuttel, Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67
- Feb 15 Hans Haym, German conductor, dies at 60
- Feb 22 Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
- Feb 26 Carl Menger, Austrian economist (marginal utility theory, subjective theory of value), dies at 81
- Feb 27 Schofield Haigh, English cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 24 wickets, BB 6/11; Yorkshire CCC), dies from a stroke at 49
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