- Feb 5 Paul Rubens, English musical comedy composer, (Miss Hook of Holland), dies at 41
- Feb 5 Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
- Feb 6 Édouard Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72
- Feb 9 Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies
- Feb 10 Émile Pessard, French composer, dies at 73
- Feb 10 John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
- Feb 11 Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)
- Feb 13 Joel Angel, Russian musicologist and composer, dies at 48
- Feb 15 Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60
- Feb 16 Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
- Feb 17 Edmund Bishop, English Roman Catholic historian and Secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70
- Feb 18 Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies
- Feb 20 Leone Sextus Tollemache, British Army captain who was incorrectly alleged to have the longest English surname on record (Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache), dies in active service in WWI at 32