Historical Events
- Feb 2 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
- Feb 2 Mexican government troops are ambushed by Yaqui Indians, 100 killed
Queen Victoria's Funeral
Feb 2 Queen Victoria's funeral takes place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England
- Feb 2 The US Congress passes the Army Reorganization Act, placing the minimum number of men under arms at 58,000
- Feb 3 Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
Franz Joseph I Condemns Nationalists
Feb 4 Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph I, gives a speech condemning the demands of national groups and calls for economic and social reform
Event of Interest
Feb 18 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
The Governor's Son
Feb 25 George M. Cohan's 1st Broadway musical "The Governor's Son"opens at the Savoy Theatre, NYC; runs for 32 performances
Event of Interest
Feb 25 US Steel Corporation organized under J. P. Morgan, Sr. through merger of Carnegie Steel Company, Federal Steel Company, and National Steel Company
Boer War Peace Talks
Feb 26 British general Kitchener confers with Boer General Louis Botha about peace conditions, which break down over the question of amnesty for some Boers
- Feb 27 A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government's insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers
- Feb 27 National League Rules Committee for baseball decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
Famous Birthdays
Clark Gable (1901-1960)
Feb 1 American actor (Gone With The Wind; It Happened One Night) known as 'The King of Hollywood', born in Cadiz, Ohio
- Feb 2 Connie Gilchrist, American actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1985)
- Feb 2 Jascha Heifetz, Russian-American violin virtuoso (Carnegie Hall debut -1917), born in Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Lithuania) (d. 1987)
- Feb 6 Ben Lyon, American actor (Hell's Angels, I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1979)
- Feb 7 Bob den Doolaard [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer and journalist (Grape Pickers), born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1994)
- Feb 8 Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Polish archer (5x record world champion), born in Starosielce, Russian Empire (d. 1979)
- Feb 9 Brian Donlevy, American actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1972)
- Feb 9 James Murray, American actor (The Crowd, The Shakedown), born in New York City (d. 1936)
- Feb 10 Stella Adler, American actress (Love on Toast; My Girl Tisa), and teacher (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), born in New York City (d. 1992)
- Feb 11 (Anton) "Tony" Hulman Jr., American businessman and motorsport entrepreneur (owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 1945-77), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1977)
- Feb 11 Roddy Connolly, Irish politician, son of James Connolly (d. 1980)
- Feb 15 Andre Parrot, French archaeologist (Mari, Assur), born in Désandans, France (d. 1980)
- Feb 15 Christmas Humphreys, English lawyer and prominent British Buddhist (Awakening of Zen), born in Ealing, England (d. 1983)
- Feb 15 James "Kokomo" Arnold, American blues slide guitarist, and singer, born in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia (d. 1968) [some sources give birth year as 1896]
- Feb 15 Paul Haesaerts, Belgian architect and painter (Animisme), born in Boom, Belgium (d. 1974)
- Feb 16 Chester Morris, American actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), born in New York City (d. 1970)
- Feb 16 Wayne King, American saxophonist and bandleader, known as the Waltz King ("The Waltz You Saved for Me"), born in Savannah, Illinois (d. 1985)
- Feb 18 Reginald Sheffield, British actor (Suspicion, Of Human Bondage, Second Chance), born in London, England (d. 1957)
- Feb 20 Cecil Harmsworth King, Irish-British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror), born in Totteridge, England (d. 1987)
- Feb 20 Fred Robinson, American jazz trombonist (Louis Armstong's Hot Five; Fats Waller; Cab Calloway), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1984)
- Feb 20 Henry Eyring, Mexican-American chemist (chemical reaction rates), born in Colonia Juárez, Mexico (d. 1981)
- Feb 20 Louis Kahn, Estonian-born American architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory), born in Osel, Estonia, Russian Empire (d. 1974)
- Feb 20 Mohamed Naguib, Egyptian general and revolutionary (one of the leaders of Egyptian Revolution, 1st President of Egypt 1952-54), born in Khartoum, Sudan (d. 1984)
- Feb 20 René Dubos, French-American microbiologist and author (1969 Pulitzer Prize, made famous "Think globally, act locally"), born in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France (d. 1982)
- Feb 22 Charles Evans Whittaker, American Supreme Court justice (1957-62), born near Troy, Kansas (d. 1973)
- Feb 22 Mildred Davis, American silent screen actress (Grandma's Boy; Haunted Spooks; I Do!), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1969)
- Feb 22 Stefan Lorant, Hungarian-American writer, photojournalist, filmmaker, born in Budapest (d. 1997)
- Feb 23 Edgar Ende, German surrealist painter, born in Altona, Germany (d. 1965) [1]
- Feb 23 Mien van 't Sant, Dutch author (Mieke serial), born in Gorinchem, Netherlands (d. 1994)
- Feb 25 Federico Ghisi, Italian chemist, musicologist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Shanghai, China (d. 1975)
- Feb 25 Zeppo Marx [Herbert Manfred Marx], American comedian and actor (Marx Brothers), born in New York City (d. 1979)
- Feb 27 Horatio Luro, American horse trainer (43 x stakes winners; Decidedly, Northern Dancer), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1991)
- Feb 27 Marino Marini, Italian sculptor (The Pilgrim - Houston), born in Pistoia, Italy (d. 1980)
Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
Feb 28 American chemist, engineer and peace activist (1954 Nobel prize for Chemistry, 1962 Nobel Peace Prize), born in Portland, Oregon
- Feb 28 Otakar Pařík, Czech pianist and conductor, born in Frýdek-Místek, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1955)
- Feb 28 Rudolf Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1929)
Famous Weddings
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Feb 7 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Famous Deaths
- Feb 7 Benjamin Edward Woolf, British-American violinist, composer (The Mighty Dollar), playwright, and journalist, dies at 64
- Feb 11 Milan I, King of Serbia (1882-89) who unexpectedly abdicated in favor of his 12-year-old son Alexander I, dies at 56
- Feb 12 Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
- Feb 14 Edward John Hopkins, English organist and composer, dies at 82
- Feb 17 Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (The Rosary; Narcissus), dies of a stroke at 38
- Feb 21 George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
- Feb 25 Jose Rogel, Spanish composer, dies at 71
- Feb 26 Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
- Feb 26 Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
