Charles Curtis
Feb 8 Charles Curtis, American Republican Senator (Kansas: 1907-13, 1915-29) and 31st US Vice President (1929-33) who was the first Native American to become a Senator and Vice President, dies of a heart attack at 76
- Feb 9 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
- Feb 16 Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket-keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted at 48
- Feb 16 James Harvey Robinson, American historian (Ordeal of Civilization), dies at 72
- Feb 17 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74
- Feb 19 Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
- Feb 20 Max Schreck, German actor (Nosferatu - "Count Orlok"), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Feb 22 John Hope, American educator (President of Atlanta Baptist/Morehouse College,1906-36 and Atlanta University, 1929-36), dies at 67
- Feb 22 Johan Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
Ivan Pavlov
Feb 27 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 86
