- Feb 2 Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59
- Feb 3 John Gould, British ornithologist and bird artist, dies at 76
Thomas Carlyle
Feb 5 Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist (The French Revolution), dies in London at 85
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Feb 9 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man) who helped shape literary modernism and existentialism, dies from a pulmonary haemorrhage at 59