Historical Events
- Feb 2 US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
- Feb 3 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched at Bath, Maine
- Feb 5 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
- Feb 6 Bottle opener patented by American inventor William Painter
- Feb 7 The Cripple Creek miners' strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Feb 8 US Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
- Feb 12 Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20
- Feb 14 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
- Feb 16 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
- Feb 24 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer ("The Charleston"; "If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)"), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey (d. 1955)
- Feb 3 Norman Rockwell, American artist and illustrator (Saturday Evening Post covers), born in New York City (d. 1978)
- Feb 6 Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer, born in Waimata Valley, New Zealand (d. 1979)
- Feb 7 Joe Devlin, American actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1973)
Billy Bishop (1894-1956)
Feb 8 Canadian First World War flying ace with 72 kills, born in Owen Sound, Ontario
- Feb 8 King Vidor, American film director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas), born in Galveston, Texas (d. 1982)
- Feb 8 Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (Obscene: The history of an indignation), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1971)
Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)
Feb 10 British Conservative politician and Prime Minister (1957-63), born in London
- Feb 10 Herb Pennock, American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 × World Series; Philadelphia A's, Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees), born in New York City (d. 1948)
- Feb 10 Roy D'Arcy [Roy Giusti], American actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1969)
- Feb 11 Isaac Kolthoff, Dutch analytical chemist (developed cold process for producing synthetic rubber), born in Almelo, Netherlands (d. 1993)
Jack Benny (1894-1974)
Feb 14 American comedian (The Jack Benny Program), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Feb 15 Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian politician and statesman (President of the UN General Assembly 1948-49), born in Alegrete, Brazil (d. 1960)
- Feb 22 Alexander Spitzmüller, Austrian composer, educator, radio broadcaster, and music critic, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1962)
- Feb 25 Ernst Friedrich, German pacifist and anarchist (War Against War!), born in Breslau, Germany (d. 1967)
- Feb 25 Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
- Feb 27 Robert Siohan, French conductor and composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1985)
Famous Deaths
- Feb 7 Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician and instrument inventor (saxophone, saxtromba, saxtuba), dies at 79
- Feb 9 Maxime Du Camp, French writer, traveler and early photographer (Les Buveurs de Cendres), dies at 72
- Feb 11 Emilio Arrieta, Spanish opera and zarzuela composer (Maria), dies at 70
- Feb 12 Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
- Feb 13 Franjo Rački, Croatian historian and politician, dies at 65
- Feb 14 Eugène Charles Catalan, French-Belgian mathematician (worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics), dies at 79
- Feb 17 Francisco Barbieri Spanish zarzuela opera composer (El Diablo en el poder), dies at 70
- Feb 19 Ernesto Camillo Sivori, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 78
- Feb 21 Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (Rue de Paris) and member of Impressionists, dies at 45
- Feb 25 Steele MacKaye [James Morrison Steele MacKaye], American playwright and actor (Spectatorium, Paul Kauvar), dies at 51
