- Feb 1 Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77
- Feb 4 Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor, dies at 63
- Feb 9 Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist, dies at 89
- Feb 10 Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
- Feb 12 Marcel Schwob, French writer and journalist (Coeur double), dies at 37
- Feb 13 Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (Travellers in Auvergne), dies at 60
- Feb 15 Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77
- Feb 17 Serge Alexandrovich, Governor-General of Moscow, assassinated by a terrorist bomb; his carriage driver also died, the assailant survived, was tried and hanged
- Feb 18 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75
- Feb 20 Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
- Feb 28 Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85