Mad Dog Coll (1908-1932)
Feb 8 Irish-American mob hitman, murdered at 23 by the Dutch Schultz gang
- Feb 9 Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered by extremists during League of Blood incident at 61
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
Feb 10 English novelist, playwright and journalist (The Terror, The Four Just Men) who created King Kong, dies of diabetes at 76
- Feb 15 Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66
- Feb 16 Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1841)
- Feb 17 Franz Gailliard, Belgian painter and graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70
- Feb 18 Frederick Augustus III, last King of Saxony (1904-18), dies at 66
- Feb 27 William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher, dies at 88
- Feb 28 Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
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