- Feb 2 Johannes Schlaf, German writer and translator, dies at 78
- Feb 4 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian and archaeologist, dies at 79
- Feb 5 Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
- Feb 6 Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82
- Feb 11 Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German Marxist economist( SPD Minister of Finance), dies in Gestapo custody at 63
- Feb 19 Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket wicket-keeper (v Aus 1879), dies at 86
- Feb 19 Hamilton Harty, Irish composer and conductor called "the prince of accompanists", dies at 61
- Feb 20 (Mary) La Bolduc (née Travers), French Canadian singer and songwriter, dies of cancer at 46
Frederick Banting (1891-1941)
Feb 21 Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, dies in a plane crash at 49
Alfonso XIII (1886-1941)
Feb 28 King of Spain (1886-1931), dies of a heart attack at 54
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