- Feb 14 C. B. Hawley, American organist and composer, born in Brookfield, Connecticut (d. 1915)
- Feb 17 Ernest Ford, English composer, born in Warminster, Wiltshire, England (d. 1919)
- Feb 24 Arnold Dolmetsch, French-Bohemian musician, instrument builder, and promoter of early music, born in LeMans, France (d. 1940)