- 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, cricketer English cricketer (great English left handed bowler and batsman 1884-96), born in Churwell, Yorkshire, 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, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
- Feb 22 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
Robert Baden-Powell
Feb 22 Robert Baden-Powell, British officer and founder of the modern scouting movement, born in Paddington, London (d. 1941)
Robert Baden-Powell