- Feb 2 Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist, dies at 57
Jaap Eden (1873-1925)
Feb 2 Dutch athlete (World Cycling C'ship gold 10k 1894, sprint 1895; World Speed Skating C'ship gold allround 1893, 95, 96), dies at 51
- Feb 13 Floyd Collins, American cave owner and caver, dies a few days before rescuers can reach him trapped in Sand Cave, Kentucky at 37 (estimated) [1]
- Feb 18 James Lane Allen, American writer (Choir Invisible), dies at 75
- Feb 20 Marco Enrico Bossi, Italian concert organist, composer and teacher, dies aboard an ocean liner while returning from a concert tour of America at 54
- Feb 21 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, American composer, dies at 52
- Feb 22 Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72
- Feb 22 Nina Salaman (née Pauline Davis), British Jewish poet, author, translator and suffragette, dies of cancer at 47
- Feb 22 Thomas Allbutt, English physiologist (Diseases of the Heart), dies at 88
- Feb 24 Karl Hjalmar Branting, Swedish statesman, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize, dies at 64
- Feb 26 Edward Anson, British army officer, and administrator (Lieutenant Governor of Penang, 1867-82), dies at 98
Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925)
Feb 28 German politician, President of Germany 1919-25), dies at 54
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