Events in History
Birthdays in History
- Feb 4 Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
- Feb 5 Jovan Dučić, Herzegovinian Serb poet (Blue Legends), born in Trebinje, Ottoman Empire (d. 1943)
- Feb 9 Fran Saleški Finžgar, Slovene folk writer (Our Blood, Service Girls), born in Doslovče, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1962)
- Feb 9 Howard T Ricketts, American pathologist (studied typhus fever), born in Findlay, Ohio (d. 1910)
- Feb 18 Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
Deaths in History
- Feb 3 Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (Society, Caste), dies at 42
- Feb 12 Alice Cary, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel), dies at 50
- Feb 19 John B. Magruder, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 63
- Feb 20 Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter, dies at 60
- Feb 26 Charles Niellon, Belgian general (Liberation of Antwerp during Belgian Revolution), dies at 76
- Feb 26 Sophia Hawthorne, American writer, painter and illustrator, dies at 61
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