- Feb 1 Martin Lunssens, Belgian composer, dies at 72
Piet Mondrian
Feb 1 Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
Piet Mondrian
- Feb 4 Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
- Feb 4 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
- Feb 5 Robert E. Park, American sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79
- Feb 7 Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
- Feb 8 Clem Wilson, cricketer (bro of Rockley, 2 Tests for England 1896), dies
- Feb 10 Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
- Feb 11 Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies
- Feb 16 Edmund von Borck, composer, dies at 37
- Feb 17 Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies at 64
- Feb 19 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, German composer, dies at 76
- Feb 21 Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (winner of the 1st Grand Prix motor racing), dies at 70
- Feb 22 Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi, dies at 74
Leo Baekeland
Feb 23 Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and inventor (bakelite plastics), dies at 80
Leo Baekeland
- Feb 29 Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861)