Historical Events
- Feb 1 1st British labour exchange opens
- Feb 1 Dragoumis government forms in Greece
- Feb 7 Edmond Rostand's play "Chantecler" premieres in Paris
- Feb 8 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce
Elektra
Feb 19 English premiere of Richard Strauss' opera "Elektra"
Typhoid Mary Freed
Feb 19 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area
Misalliance
Feb 23 George Bernard Shaw's play "Misalliance" premieres in London
- Feb 25 13th Dalai Lama (Thupten Gyatso) flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Jahangir Khan, Indian cricket fast bowler (4 Tests India; Pakistan selector), born in Jalandhar, Punjab, India (d. 1988)
- Feb 1 Michael Kanin, American director, writer and actor (Woman of the Year, Teacher's Pet), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1993)
- Feb 2 Charlotte Auerbach, German-born British geneticist and zoologist, born in Krefeld, Germany (d. 1994)
- Feb 3 Blas Galindo, Mexican composer (A la Patria), born in San Gabriel, Mexico (d. 1993)
- Feb 3 Nelson Case, American TV host (Trash or Treasure), born in Long Beach, California (d. 1976)
- Feb 3 Robert Earl Jones, American actor (The Sting, Witness, Sleepaway Camp), born in Senatobia, Mississippi (d. 2006)
- Feb 4 Uys Krige, South African playwright and novelist (Orphan of the Desert), born in Bontebokskloof, Cape Province (d. 1987)
- Feb 5 Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)
- Feb 5 Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (played for Argentina 1930-37), born in La Plata, Argentina (d. 2010)
- Feb 6 Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster, born in Tunis, Tunisia (d. 1993)
- Feb 6 George Poyser, English soccer defender (Brentford) and manager (Notts County, Manchester City), born in Stanton Hill, England (d. 1995)
- Feb 6 Irmgard Keun, German author, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1982)
- Feb 9 Herbert "Peanuts" Holland, American swing jazz trumpeter, born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1979)
- Feb 9 Jacques Monod, French biochemist (1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine - genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis), born in Paris, France (d. 1976)
- Feb 10 Dominique Pire, Belgian Dominican friar (1958 Nobel Peace Prize for aiding WW II refugees), born in Dinant, Belgium (d. 1969)
- Feb 10 Douglas Spencer, American actor (The Thing from Another World, This Island Earth, River of No Return), born in Princeton, Illinois (d. 1960)
- Feb 10 Joyce Grenfell, British actress (Pickwick Papers, Americanization of Emily), born in London, England (d. 1979)
- Feb 10 Paul Whitelaw, New Zealand cricket batsman (2 Tests; Auckland), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 1988)
- Feb 12 Forsyth Hardy, Scottish documentary film pioneer and critic, born in Bathgate, Scotland (d. 1994)
- Feb 12 Gunnar Höckert, Finnish athlete (Olympic gold 5,000m 1936), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1940)
- Feb 12 Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist, founder of Samsung, born in Uiryeong County, Korean Empire (d. 1987)
William Shockley (1910-1989)
Feb 13 American physicist who helped invent the transistor (1956 Nobel), who was also known for his racist eugenics views, born in London, England
- Feb 15 Irena Sendler [née Krzyżanowska], Polish nurse, social worker, and WWII heroine who helped smuggle Jewish ghetto children to safety, born in Warsaw, Russian Poland (d. 2008) [1]
- Feb 16 Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Mexican organist, composer and pedagogue (Tata Vasco; Tres Cartas de México), born in Morelia, Mexico (d. 1956)
- Feb 17 Alfred Mendelsohn, Romanian composer, and conductor (Romanian National Opera, 1944-63), and teacher, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1966)
- Feb 17 Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (El Dorado, Big Sky, Apache Uprising), born in Gravelly, Arkansas (d. 1979)
- Feb 17 Marc Lawrence [Max Goldsmith], American character actor (Man With Golden Gun), born in New York City (d. 2005)
- Feb 20 Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter and collage maker, born in Dorking, England (d. 1988)
- Feb 21 Al Sears, American jazz and R&B saxophonist (Duke Elllington Orchestra; Johnny Hodges - "Castle Rock"), born in Macomb, Illinois (d. 1990)
- Feb 21 Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
- Feb 21 Douglas Bader, British pilot and WWII flying ace during WWII, born in London, England (d. 1982)
- Feb 21 Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
- Feb 24 Arthur Hazlerigg, British peer and cricketer (d. 2002)
- Feb 24 Clyde Hart, American swing and bebop jazz piano player and arranger (Stuff Smith; Lionel Hampton; Roy Eldridge), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1945)
- Feb 25 Millicent Fenwick, American politician (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury), born in New York City (d. 1992)
- Feb 27 Joan Bennett, American actress (Little Women, Disraeli), born in Palisades, New Jersey (d. 1990)
- Feb 27 Kelly Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works, Lockheed U-2, SR-71 Blackbird), born in Ishpeming, Michigan (d. 1990)
- Feb 27 Peter De Vries, American author (Reuben, Reuben; The Prick of Noon) and editor (New Yorker), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1993)
- Feb 27 Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
- Feb 28 Roman Maciejewski, Polish composer (Requiem - Missa pro defunctis), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1988)
Famous Weddings
James Weldon Johnson
Feb 3 Author James Weldon Johnson (38) weds civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson (24) at her family's home
Famous Deaths
- Feb 1 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
- Feb 6 Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
- Feb 8 Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
- Feb 15 Albert Fuchs, Swiss-German composer, dies at 51
- Feb 16 Albert Heinrich Zabel, German-Russian harpist and composer (Russian Imperial Ballet), dies at 75
- Feb 20 Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt (1908-1910), assassinated by a nationalist at 64
- Feb 26 Adelaide Hoodless, Canadian educational reformer (founder of the Women's Institute), dies at 51 [1]
