Historical Events
- Feb 2 Frederick R. Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
- Feb 7 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
- Feb 8 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida
- Feb 8 British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength
- Feb 9 US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
- Feb 10 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
Feb 12 China adopts the Gregorian calendar
- Feb 12 The last Qing Emperor of China, Puyi (age 6) abdicates after losing the support of the Chinese people and thus the "mandate of heaven"
- Feb 13 Olympic boxing gold medallist Johnny Douglas takes 5/46 as England cricket team regains Ashes with an innings and 225 run 4th Test win over Australia in Melbourne
- Feb 14 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
- Feb 14 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
- Feb 15 Schooner 'Fram' reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
- Feb 16 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
- Feb 20 Argentina beats the MCC in their inaugural 1st-class cricket fixture at the Buenos Aires Cricket Club; lose the second and third games of the series
- Feb 22 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
- Feb 25 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- Feb 26 Coal miners strike in Britain (settle on 1st March)
Railroad History
Feb 27 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
- Feb 28 Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 2 Burton Lane, American film and stage composer and lyricist (Finian's Rainbow), born in New York City (d. 1997)
- Feb 2 Millvina Dean, British civil servant who was the last living survivor of the RMS Titanic and also the youngest aboard, born in Branscombe, Devon, England (d. 2009)
- Feb 2 Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1999)
- Feb 3 Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and Minister of Information (Free French forces), born in Montpellier, France (d. 1990)
Byron Nelson (1912-2006)
Feb 4 American golfer (winner 5 major titles; record 19 tournaments 1945), born in Fort Worth, Texas
- Feb 4 Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-born American conductor, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1993)
- Feb 4 James Craig [Meador], American actor (Devil & Daniel Webster, Cyclops), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1985)
- Feb 4 Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
- Feb 4 Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
- Feb 5 Willard Parker, American actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman), born in New York City (d. 1996)
- Feb 5 Zoltán Pongrácz, Hungarian avant-garde composer (Mariphonia), born in Diószeg (d. 2007)
- Feb 6 Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1945)
- Feb 7 Alfred Desenclos, French composer, mostly of liturgical works (Messe de Requiem), born in Pontel, France (d. 1971)
- Feb 7 Derek Farr, British actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large), born in London, England (d. 1986)
- Feb 7 Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (painted Australian outback), born in Bognor Regis, England (d. 1981)
- Feb 8 Šimon Jurovský [Shimon Weiss-Nägel], Slovak composer for ballet, theater, and film, born in Uľanka, Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia (d. 1963)
- Feb 11 Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (Lost Season), born in Failsworth, England (d. 1991)
- Feb 11 Rudolf Firkušný, Moravian-American concert pianist and educator (Julliard), born in Napajedla, Moravia (d. 1994)
- Feb 12 Ernest Clark, British actor (Gandhi; The Dam Busters: Doctor in the House), born in London, England (d. 1994)
- Feb 12 R. F. Delderfield, English author (Diana), born in London, England (d. 1972)
- Feb 13 Arthur "Schneeze" Rollini, American big band jazz tenor saxophonist, born in New York City (d. 1993)
- Feb 13 Jose de Capriles, Mexican-born American fencer (Olympic-1936, 48, 52), born in Mexico City (d. 1969)
- Feb 13 Margaretta Scott, British actress (Crescendo, Where's Charley, Counterblast), born in Westminster, London (d. 2005)
- Feb 14 Edmund G. Love, American historian and author (A Small Bequest, Subways Are for Sleeping), born in Flushing, Michigan (d. 1990)
- Feb 14 Juan Pujol Garcia, Spanish double agent (spied for Britain, codename Garbo, pretended to spy for Nazi Germany codename Arabel), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1988)
- Feb 14 Ollie Harrington, American cartoonist (Bootsie), born in Valhalla, New York (d. 1995)
- Feb 14 Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)
- Feb 15 George Mikes, Hungarian-British writer and humorist (How to Be an Alien), born in Siklós, Hungary (d. 1987)
- Feb 16 Arthur Crook, British editor (Times Literary Supplement) (d. 2005)
- Feb 16 Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch author (d. 1987)
- Feb 16 Del Sharbutt, American radio and TV announcer (Your Hit Parade), born in Cleburne, Texas (d. 2002)
- Feb 16 Gwydion Brooke [Holbrooke], British bassoonist (Royal Philharmonic, 1946-1961), born in Kentford, Suffolk, England (d. 2005)
- Feb 17 Alice "Andre" Norton, American sci-fi author (The Time Traders, The Zero Stone), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2005)
- Feb 18 Dane Clark, American actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1998)
- Feb 19 Adolf Rudnicki [Aron Hirschhorn], Polish writer (Niekochana), born in Żabno, Galicia (now Poland) (d. 1990)
- Feb 19 Peter Francis du Sautoy, British publisher (Faber & Faber) (d. 1995)
- Feb 19 Saul Chaplin [Kaplan], American Oscar Award-winning stage, and screen composer, arranger, and orchestrator (An American in Paris; "The Anniversary Song"), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1997)
- Feb 20 Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
- Feb 21 Arline Judge, American actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 1974)
- Feb 21 Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist (1st to record Chopin's complete works), born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1992)
- Feb 22 Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska, Polish pianist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Brody, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1994)
- Feb 24 Július Kowalski, Slovak composer, born in Ostrava, Austrian Silesia (now Czech Republic) (d. 2003)
- Feb 25 Richard Wattis, British actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl, The Man Who Knew Too Much), born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England (d. 1975)
- Feb 27 Hugues Panassié, French jazz critic, record producer, and impresario (Hot Club de France), born in Paris, France (d. 1974)
- Feb 27 Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
- Feb 27 Lawrence Durrell, Indian-British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet), born in Jalandhar, Punjab, British India (d. 1990)
- Feb 28 Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1945)
- Feb 28 Helmut Coing, German legal historian (Max Planck institute), born in Celle, Germany (d. 2000)
Famous Deaths
Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
Feb 10 British surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery), dies at 84
- Feb 12 Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (1st to identify leprosy as bacteria), dies at 70 [1]
- Feb 16 St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
- Feb 17 Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Austrian diplomat (Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary 1906-12), dies at 57
- Feb 17 Edgar Evans, Welsh explorer (part of Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica), dies attempting to return from the Pole at 35
- Feb 22 Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76
- Feb 25 Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1905-12), dies at 59
- Feb 28 Bill Storer, English cricket wicket-keeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies
