Birthdays in Music
- Feb 2 Burton Lane, American film and stage composer and lyricist (Finian's Rainbow), born in New York City (d. 1997)
- Feb 4 Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-born American conductor, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1993)
- Feb 5 Zoltán Pongrácz, Hungarian avant-garde composer (Mariphonia), born in Diószeg (d. 2007)
- Feb 7 Alfred Desenclos, French composer, mostly of liturgical works (Messe de Requiem), born in Pontel, France (d. 1971)
- Feb 8 Simon Jurovsky, Slovak composer, born in Ulmanka (d. 1963)
- Feb 11 Rudolf Firkušný, Moravian-American concert pianist and educator (Julliard), born in Napajedla, Moravia (d. 1994)
- Feb 13 Arthur "Schneeze" Rollini, American big band jazz tenor saxophonist, born in New York City (d. 1993)
- Feb 16 Gwydion Brooke [Holbrooke], British bassoonist (Royal Philharmonic, 1946-1961), born in Kentford, Suffolk, England (d. 2005)
- Feb 19 Saul Chaplin [Kaplan], American Oscar Award-winning stage, and screen composer, arranger, and orchestrator (An American in Paris; "The Anniversary Song"), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1997)
- Feb 21 Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist (1st to record Chopin's complete works, Arkadia 598-Schubert), born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1992)
- Feb 22 Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska, Polish pianist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Brody, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1994)
- Feb 24 Július Kowalski, Slovak composer, born in Ostrava, Austrian Silesia (now Czech Republic) (d. 2003)
- Feb 27 Hugues Panassié, French jazz critic, record producer, and impresario (Hot Club de France), born in Paris (d. 1974)
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