- Feb 2 Johannes Schlaf, German writer and translator, dies at 78
- Feb 4 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian and archaeologist, dies at 79
- Feb 5 Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
- Feb 6 Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82
- Feb 11 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63
- Feb 19 Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket wicket-keeper (v Aus 1879), dies
- Feb 19 Hamilton Harty, Irish composer and conductor called "the prince of accompanists", dies at 61
- Feb 20 La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
Frederick Banting
Feb 21 Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, dies in a plane crash at 49
Frederick Banting