George Stokes (1819-1903)
Feb 1 Irish physicist and mathematician (Navier-Stokes equations, Stokes' theorem), dies at 83
- Feb 3 Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59
- Feb 11 Henryk Szulc, Polish violinist and composer, dies at 67
- Feb 12 Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
- Feb 15 Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69
- Feb 17 Joseph Parry, Welsh composer and musician, dies at 61
- Feb 20 Charles Doolittle, American general (Union volunteer), dies at 70
- Feb 22 Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
- Feb 22 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
- Feb 23 Albert Cahen, French composer, dies at 57
- Feb 23 Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70
Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903)
Feb 26 American inventor famous for the Gatling Gun, the 1st hand-cranked machine gun, dies at 84
- Feb 28 Girolamo de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku), dies at 88
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