Historical Events
- Feb 1 Dutch soccer club ADO Den Haag forms in The Hague; ADO represents the amateur branch of the club
- Feb 1 Hungarian premier Count István Tisza resigns
- Feb 7 Dominican Republic signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
- Feb 8 Cyclone hits Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
- Feb 11 James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands
- Feb 11 Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
- Feb 13 -29°F (-34°C) Pond, Arkansas (state record)
- Feb 13 -40°F (-40°C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)
- Feb 13 -40°F (-40°C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
- Feb 15 1st thoroughbred horse race meet at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas
- Feb 16 1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston
- Feb 17 American educator and women's suffragist Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall in the US Capital building, Washington, D.C.
Hidalla oder Sein und Haben
Feb 18 Frank Wedekind's play "Hidalla oder Sein und Haben" (Hidalla, or Being and Having) premieres in Munich
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Ernst Stueckelberg, Swiss mathematician and physicist, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1984)
- Feb 2 Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum], Russian-American author, screenwriter and philosopher who developed the philosophical system of "Objectivism" (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1982)
- Feb 2 Jean-Pierre Guerlain, French cosmetics pioneer (d. 1996)
- Feb 3 Arne Beurling, American mathematician (d. 1986)
- Feb 4 Eddie Foy Jr [Edwin Fitzgerald Jr], American actor (The Pajama Game, Fair Exchange), born in New Rochelle, New York (d. 1983)
- Feb 4 Hylda Baker, English comedy actress, born in Farnworth, Lancashire, England (d. 1986)
- Feb 6 Władysław Gomułka, Polish communist politician, born in Krosno, Poland (d. 1982)
- Feb 7 Paul Nizan, French journalist and writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration), born in Tours, France (d. 1940)
- Feb 7 Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist famous for his work on neurotransmitters (Nobel 1970), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1983)
- Feb 8 Edgar Palm, Curaçaoan pianist and composer (Padu), born in Willemstad, Dutch Colony of Curaçao (d. 1998)
- Feb 8 Truman Bradley, American actor (Science Fiction Theater), born in Sheldon, Missouri (d. 1974)
- Feb 10 (William) "Chick" Webb, American jazz drummer and big band bandleader (introduced Ella Fitzgerald), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1939)
- Feb 10 John Dierkes, American actor (Shane, Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1975)
- Feb 10 José Muñoz Molleda, Spanish composer and politician, born in La Línea de la Concepción (d. 1988)
- Feb 10 Max Schubert, Australian pioneering winemaker (Penfolds), born in Moculta, Australia (d. 1994)
- Feb 10 Vilko Ukmar, Slovenian composer, born in Postojna, Slovenia (d. 1991)
- Feb 10 Walter Brown, American basketball and ice hokey executive (founded and owned Boston Celtics, bought Boston Bruins), born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts (d. 1964)
- Feb 11 Beb Vuyk, Dutch-Indonesian writer (Camp Diary), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1991)
- Feb 12 Harry Bellaver, American actor (Another World, Naked City), born in Hillsboro, Illinois (d. 1993)
Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
Feb 15 American composer ("Over the Rainbow"; "It's Only A Paper Moon"; "Stormy Weather"), born in Buffalo, New York
- Feb 15 Nise da Silveira, Brazilian psychiatrist (made advances in occupational therapy), born in Maceió, Brazil (d. 1999)
- Feb 16 Oliver Franks, British civil servant, ambassador to the US and philosopher (Falklands War report), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1992)
- Feb 17 Andy Oberlander, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Dartmouth College; National C'ship 1954), born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
- Feb 17 Orville "Hoppy" Jones, American bass singer and cellist (The Ink Spots - "If I Didn't Care"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1944)
- Feb 18 Queenie Leonard, British actress, born in London, England (d. 2002)
- Feb 20 Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (My Golden Road from Samarkand), born in Russian Empire (d. 1974)
- Feb 22 Luis Sandi, Mexican musician and composer, born in Mexico City, Mexico (d. 1996)
- Feb 23 Leonidas Zoras, Greek conductor and composer, born in Sparta, Greece (d. 1987)
- Feb 24 Eric Boyland, English biochemist (Cancer research), born in Manchester (d. 2002)
- Feb 24 Guillaume Landré, Dutch composer, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1968)
- Feb 26 William Russell [Russell William Wagner], American violinist, modern composer (Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments), and musicologist (Oh, Mister Jelly), born in Canton, Missouri (d. 1992)
- Feb 27 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), born in Ixelles, Belgium (d. 1971)
- Feb 27 Franchot Tone, American actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Advise & Consent), born in Niagara Falls, New York (d. 1968)
- Feb 28 Glyn Jones, Welsh, novelist, poet and literary historian, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (d. 1995)
Famous Weddings
Thomas Mann
Feb 11 Novelist Thomas Mann (29) weds Katia Pringsheim (21) in Munich, Germany
Famous Deaths
- Feb 1 Oswald Aschenbach, German landscape painter, dies at 77
- Feb 4 Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor, dies at 63
- Feb 9 Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist, dies at 89
- Feb 10 Ignacy Krzyzanowski, Polish composer, dies at 78
- Feb 12 Marcel Schwob, French writer and journalist (Coeur double), dies at 37
- Feb 13 Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (Travellers in Auvergne), dies at 60
- Feb 15 Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77
- Feb 17 Serge Alexandrovich, Governor-General of Moscow, assassinated by a terrorist bomb; his carriage driver also died, the assailant survived, was tried and hanged
- Feb 18 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75
- Feb 20 Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
- Feb 28 Joseph Clement Juglar, French physician and statistician (business cycle pioneer), dies at 85
