| 12931 | February 1 | Death | 1768 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal and politician (b. 1685) |
| 12932 | February 1 | Death | 1793 – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1717) |
| 12933 | February 1 | Death | 1832 – Archibald Murphey, American judge and politician (b. 1777) |
| 12934 | February 1 | Death | 1851 – Mary Shelley, English author and playwright (b. 1797) |
| 12935 | February 1 | Death | 1893 – George Henry Sanderson, American politician, 22nd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824) |
| 12936 | February 1 | Death | 1897 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b. 1826) |
| 12937 | February 1 | Death | 1903 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English physicist, mathematician, and politician (b. 1819) |
| 12938 | February 1 | Death | 1907 – Léon Serpollet, French industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles (b. 1858) |
| 12939 | February 1 | Death | 1908 – Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863) |
| 12940 | February 1 | Death | 1922 – William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872) |
| 12941 | February 1 | Death | 1924 – Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858) |
| 12942 | February 1 | Death | 1928 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869) |
| 12943 | February 1 | Death | 1936 – Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878) |
| 12944 | February 1 | Death | 1940 – Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888) |
| 12945 | February 1 | Death | 1940 – Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (b. 1877) |
| 12946 | February 1 | Death | 1944 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872) |
| 12947 | February 1 | Death | 1945 – Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (b. 1895) |
| 12948 | February 1 | Death | 1946 – Jenő Törzs, Hungarian actor (b. 1887) |
| 12949 | February 1 | Death | 1949 – Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880) |
| 12950 | February 1 | Death | 1949 – Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (b. 1885) |
| 12951 | February 1 | Death | 1954 – Yvonne de Bray, French actress (b. 1889) |
| 12952 | February 1 | Death | 1957 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890) |
| 12953 | February 1 | Death | 1958 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) |
| 12954 | February 1 | Death | 1959 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873) |
| 12955 | February 1 | Death | 1966 – Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885) |
| 12956 | February 1 | Death | 1966 – Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895) |
| 12957 | February 1 | Death | 1968 – Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli scientist and academic (b. 1891) |
| 12958 | February 1 | Death | 1970 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921) |
| 12959 | February 1 | Death | 1976 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) |
| 12960 | February 1 | Death | 1976 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878) |