- 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 at 86
- Feb 19 Hamilton Harty, Irish composer and conductor called "the prince of accompanists", dies at 61
- Feb 20 (Mary) La Bolduc (née Travers), French Canadian singer and songwriter, dies of cancer at 46
Frederick Banting
Feb 21 Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, dies in a plane crash at 49
