- Feb 5 Anton Mauve, Dutch realist painter and cousin of Vincent Van Gogh, dies at 49
- Feb 8 Robert H. Anderson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army, dies at 52
- Feb 11 William Kelly, American inventor (pneumatic process of steelmaking), dies at 76
- Feb 13 Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (1853-85), dies at 73
- Feb 22 Jean-Delphin Alard, French violinist and composer, dies at 72