- Feb 1 Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory)
- Feb 1 Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
- Feb 1 John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)
- Feb 2 Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German secretary of State (1932-38)
- Feb 2 Johan P earl van Limburg Stirum, Dutch diplomat
- Feb 2 Leopold Fall, Austrian operetta composer (Dollar Princess)
- Feb 3 Ernest B Allo, French theologist
- Feb 4 Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
- Feb 11 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life)
- Feb 15 Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born Swedish biochemist who investigated the fermentation of sugar and enzymes (Nobel 1929), born in Augsburg, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1964)
- Feb 22 Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
- Feb 23 Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
- Feb 23 Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
- Feb 23 Joseph Allen Sr. American actor, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1952)
- Feb 25 Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor (Faust), born in Naples, Italy
- Feb 26 Ewoud van Everdingen, Dutch meteorologist