| 15991 | February 10 | Birth | 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) |
| 15992 | February 10 | Birth | 1892 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (d. 1950) |
| 15993 | February 10 | Birth | 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and singer (d. 1980) |
| 15994 | February 10 | Birth | 1893 – Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (d. 1953) |
| 15995 | February 10 | Birth | 1894 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986) |
| 15996 | February 10 | Birth | 1897 – Judith Anderson, Australian-American actress (d. 1992) |
| 15997 | February 10 | Birth | 1897 – John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) |
| 15998 | February 10 | Birth | 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (d. 1956) |
| 15999 | February 10 | Birth | 1898 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (d. 1979) |
| 16000 | February 10 | Birth | 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress and educator (d. 1992) |
| 16001 | February 10 | Birth | 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) |
| 16002 | February 10 | Birth | 1903 – Franco Cortese, Italian race car driver (d. 1986) |
| 16003 | February 10 | Birth | 1903 – Karl Deichgräber, German philologist and academic (d. 1984) |
| 16004 | February 10 | Birth | 1903 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948) |
| 16005 | February 10 | Birth | 1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1939) |
| 16006 | February 10 | Birth | 1904 – John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1963) |
| 16007 | February 10 | Birth | 1905 – Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (d. 1964) |
| 16008 | February 10 | Birth | 1905 – Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1939) |
| 16009 | February 10 | Birth | 1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973) |
| 16010 | February 10 | Birth | 1906 – Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 16011 | February 10 | Birth | 1908 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (d. 2000) |
| 16012 | February 10 | Birth | 1909 – Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, writer and scholar (d. 2004) |
| 16013 | February 10 | Birth | 1909 – Peter L. Rypdal, Norwegian fiddler and traditional fork music composer (d. 1988) |
| 16014 | February 10 | Birth | 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969) |
| 16015 | February 10 | Birth | 1910 – Stanley Vann, English composer, organist, choral conductor, and choir trainer (d. 2010) |
| 16016 | February 10 | Birth | 1910 – Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (d. 1978) |
| 16017 | February 10 | Birth | 1913 – Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer |
| 16018 | February 10 | Birth | 1914 – Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (d. 2001) |
| 16019 | February 10 | Birth | 1919 – Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2014) |
| 16020 | February 10 | Birth | 1920 – Alex Comfort, English physician and author (d. 2000) |