- Feb 1 Al Watrous, American golfer (British Open 1926 runner-up), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 1983)
- Feb 2 Benny Rubin, American actor and comedian (Benny Rubin Show), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1986)
- Feb 3 Doris Speed, British actress dubbed 'The Queen Mother of Soap' (Coronation Street), born in Manchester, England (d. 1994)
- Feb 3 Forrest DeBernardi, American basketball player (hall of fame 1961), born in Nevada, Missouri (d. 1970)
- Feb 3 João Café Filho, Brazilian president (d. 1970)
- Feb 3 Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
- Feb 6 Ramon Novarro [Jose Samaniegos], Mexican-American actor (Ben-Hur, Mata Hari), born in Durango, Mexico (d. 1968)
- Feb 7 Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader (First Secretary of the Latvian SSR, CPSU Politburo member), born near Zālīte, Latvia (d. 1983)
- Feb 12 Albert Huybrechts, Belgian composer, born in Dinant, Belgium (d. 1936)
- Feb 14 John Herman Randall Jr., American philosopher (Western Man), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1980)
- Feb 14 Lovro von Matačić, Croatian conductor & composer (Bruckner Medal), born in Sušak, Croatia (d. 1985)
- Feb 15 Gale Sondergaard, American actress (The Letter, Road to Rio), born in Litchfield, Minnesota (d. 1985)
- Feb 15 Georges Auric, French composer (one of Les Six), born in Lodève, Hérault, France (d. 1983)
- Feb 15 Lillian Disney, wife of animator Walt Disney, born in Spalding, Idaho (d. 1997)
- Feb 18 Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II), born in Dersingham, England (d. 1985)
- Feb 19 Louis "Kid Shots" Madison, American jazz cornetist (WPA Brass Band; Eureka Brass Band), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1948)
- Feb 19 Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)
- Feb 20 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (Pan Am Airways), born in Roslyn, New York (d. 1992)
- Feb 20 Leon Woizikowsky, Polish dancer (Ballets Russes, 1916-29), ballet master and teacher, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1975)
- Feb 22 Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
- Feb 22 Dwight Frye, American actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein), born in Salina, Kansas (d. 1943)
- Feb 22 George O'Hara, American silent era screenwriter and actor (The Sea Beast, The Grapes of Wrath), born in NYC, New York (d. 1966)
- Feb 23 Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
- Feb 23 Norman Taurog, American film director (Skippy), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1981)
- Feb 24 Jacob Presser, Dutch historian and writer (Ashes in the Wind), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1970)
- Feb 25 Leo Weisgerber, German linguist (organicist theory), born in Metz, German Empire (d. 1985)
- Feb 26 Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
- Feb 27 Charles Best, American-Canadian medical scientist and co-discoverer of insulin, born in West Pembroke, Maine (d. 1978)
- Feb 27 Ian Keith, American actor (Abraham Lincoln, Queen Christina, Cleopatra, 3 Musketeers), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1960)