Events in Sport
- Feb 3 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
- Feb 9 St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45
Event of Interest
Feb 14 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
Sugar Ray Robinson
Event of Interest
Feb 17 Detroit right wing Gordie Howe scores his 100th career NHL goal and adds an assist in a 2-1 Red Wings' victory away to the Montreal Canadiens
Gordie Howe
- Feb 18 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
Birthdays in Sport
- Feb 3 Felipe Munoz, Mexican 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1968)
- Feb 3 Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
- Feb 4 Stan Papi, American baseball player
- Feb 6 Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer, born in Santos, Brazil
- Feb 7 Benny Ayala, baseball player
- Feb 7 Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
- Feb 8 Camille LaPierre, NHLer
- Feb 14 Kevin Keegan, English soccer forward, manager (England 63 caps, Liverpool, Newcastle United), born in Armthorpe, Doncaster
- Feb 14 JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater, born in Birmingham, Alabama
- Feb 20 Phil Neal, English soccer player
- Feb 21 John Parker, New Zealand cricketer (NZ batsman of 70s), born in Dannevirke, New Zealand
- Feb 22 Elaine Tanner, Canadian swimmer (1966 Commonwealth Games, 1968 Olympics), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Feb 23 Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
- Feb 24 Derek Randall, cricketer (England batsman & animated cover fieldsman)
- Feb 25 Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
- Feb 25 James Brown, American sportscaster (CBS News, The NFL Today), born in Washington, D.C.
- Feb 25 César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
- Feb 28 Gustavo Thoeni, Italian giant slalom (Olympic gold 1972)
- Feb 28 Karsan Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s)