- Feb 12 Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
- Feb 14 Edward John Hopkins, English organist and composer, dies at 82
- Feb 17 Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (The Rosary; Narcissus), dies of a stroke at 38
- Feb 21 George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
- Feb 25 Jose Rogel, Spanish composer, dies at 71
- Feb 26 Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
- Feb 26 Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded