- Feb 2 Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector
- Feb 3 Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen, Copenhagen, Danish Botanist and Geneticist who provided evidence for Hugo de Vries' mutation theory
- Feb 9 Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
- Feb 12 Bobby Peel, English cricket all-rounder (20 Tests, 3 x 50, 101 wickets, BB 7/31; Yorkshire CCC), born in Churwell, England (d. 1941)
- Feb 17 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor and publisher
- Feb 18 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor
- Feb 21 Jules de Trooz, Belgian politician, Premier of Belgium (1907), born in Leuven (1907)
- Feb 22 Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1894)
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941)
Feb 22 British officer and founder of the modern scouting movement, born in Paddington, London
- Feb 25 Friedrich Reinitzer, Austrian chemist and botanist (discovered properties of liquid crystals), born in Prague (d. 1927)
- Feb 26 Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
- Feb 28 Gustave Kerker, German born American composer for Broadway musicals (The Belle of New York), born in Hertford, Germany (d. 1923)