- Feb 2 Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71
- Feb 3 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72
- Feb 7 Ion Vidu, Romanian composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Feb 11 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
- Feb 12 Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
- Feb 18 Milan Ć ufflay, Croatian historian and politician, dies at 51
- Feb 23 Nellie Melba [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies
- Feb 26 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83
- Feb 27 Chandra Sekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army), dies at 24