- Feb 11 Franz Schmidt, Austro-Hungarian cellist, pianist, and composer, dies at 64
- Feb 15 Foppe G. Scheltema, Dutch lawyer, dies at 47
- Feb 15 Henri Jaspar, 27th Prime Minister of Belgium (1927-31), dies at 68
- Feb 15 Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
- Feb 16 Jura Soyfer, Austrian political journalist and cabaret writer, dies at Buchenwald concentration camp at 26
- Feb 17 Willy Hess, German violinist, dies at 79
- Feb 18 Ludwig Bonvin, composer, dies at 89
- Feb 22 Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (Campos de Castilla), dies at 63
- Feb 27 Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Central Committee member, Soviet Minister for Education, wife of Vladimir Lenin), dies at 70
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