| 12751 | February 1 | Birth | 1902 – Langston Hughes, American poet and author (d. 1967) |
| 12752 | February 1 | Birth | 1904 – S. J. Perelman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1979) |
| 12753 | February 1 | Birth | 1905 – Joan Morgan, English actress (d. 2004) |
| 12754 | February 1 | Birth | 1905 – Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989) |
| 12755 | February 1 | Birth | 1906 – Hildegarde, American actress and singer (d. 2005) |
| 12756 | February 1 | Birth | 1906 – Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1993) |
| 12757 | February 1 | Birth | 1907 – Günter Eich, German author and songwriter (d. 1972) |
| 12758 | February 1 | Birth | 1907 – Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 1993) |
| 12759 | February 1 | Birth | 1908 – George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer (d. 1980) |
| 12760 | February 1 | Birth | 1908 – Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist and banker (d. 1998) |
| 12761 | February 1 | Birth | 1909 – George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (d. 2013) |
| 12762 | February 1 | Birth | 1910 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Chinese general and politician (d. 2009) |
| 12763 | February 1 | Birth | 1915 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager (d. 2000) |
| 12764 | February 1 | Birth | 1915 – Alicia Rhett, American actress and painter (d. 2014) |
| 12765 | February 1 | Birth | 1917 – A. K. Hangal, Indian actor (d. 2012) |
| 12766 | February 1 | Birth | 1917 – José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (d. 2013) |
| 12767 | February 1 | Birth | 1917 – Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player and soldier (d. 1944) |
| 12768 | February 1 | Birth | 1918 – Muriel Spark, Scottish-Italian author and poet (d. 2006) |
| 12769 | February 1 | Birth | 1918 – Ignacy Tokarczuk, Polish archbishop (d. 2012) |
| 12770 | February 1 | Birth | 1920 – Mike Scarry, American football player and coach (d. 2012) |
| 12771 | February 1 | Birth | 1921 – Patricia Robins, English author |
| 12772 | February 1 | Birth | 1921 – Peter Sallis, English actor and singer |
| 12773 | February 1 | Birth | 1922 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004) |
| 12774 | February 1 | Birth | 1923 – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (d. 2008) |
| 12775 | February 1 | Birth | 1924 – Richard Hooker, American novelist (d. 1997) |
| 12776 | February 1 | Birth | 1924 – Emmanuel Scheffer, German-Israeli footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2012) |
| 12777 | February 1 | Birth | 1925 – Giovanni Riggi, American mob boss (d. 2015) |
| 12778 | February 1 | Birth | 1927 – Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (d. 2014) |
| 12779 | February 1 | Birth | 1928 – Sam Edwards, Welsh physicist and academic (d. 2015) |
| 12780 | February 1 | Birth | 1928 – Tom Lantos, Hungarian-American academic and politician (d. 2008) |