- Feb 9 Anthony Hope [Hopkins], novelist, born in London, England
- Feb 17 Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
- Feb 19 Emánuel Moór, Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments, born in Kecskemét, Hungary (d. 1931)
- Feb 23 Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)