| 18271 | February 16 | Birth | 1874 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano and educator (d. 1935) |
| 18272 | February 16 | Birth | 1868 – Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer (d. 1952) |
| 18273 | February 16 | Birth | 1876 – G.M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic (d. 1962) |
| 18274 | February 16 | Birth | 1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator (d. 1951) |
| 18275 | February 16 | Birth | 1878 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920) |
| 18276 | February 16 | Birth | 1883 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and author (d. 1980) |
| 18277 | February 16 | Birth | 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (d. 1951) |
| 18278 | February 16 | Birth | 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic (d. 1963) |
| 18279 | February 16 | Birth | 1887 – Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962) |
| 18280 | February 16 | Birth | 1891 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (d. 1967) |
| 18281 | February 16 | Birth | 1896 – Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian (d. 2010) |
| 18282 | February 16 | Birth | 1898 – Katharine Cornell, American actress and producer (d. 1974) |
| 18283 | February 16 | Birth | 1901 – Vincent Coleman, American actor (d. 1971) |
| 18284 | February 16 | Birth | 1901 – Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985) |
| 18285 | February 16 | Birth | 1901 – Chester Morris, American actor (d. 1970) |
| 18286 | February 16 | Birth | 1903 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist and actor (d. 1978) |
| 18287 | February 16 | Birth | 1903 – André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (d. 1960) |
| 18288 | February 16 | Birth | 1903 – Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian priest and sociologist (d. 2000) |
| 18289 | February 16 | Birth | 1904 – Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS officer (d. 1988) |
| 18290 | February 16 | Birth | 1904 – George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (d. 2005) |
| 18291 | February 16 | Birth | 1906 – Vera Menchik, Russian-English chess player (d. 1944) |
| 18292 | February 16 | Birth | 1909 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor and director (d. 1982) |
| 18293 | February 16 | Birth | 1909 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor and singer (d. 1995) |
| 18294 | February 16 | Birth | 1909 – Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (d. 1998) |
| 18295 | February 16 | Birth | 1915 – Jim O'Hora, American football player and coach (d. 2005) |
| 18296 | February 16 | Birth | 1915 – Michael Relph, English director and producer (d. 2004) |
| 18297 | February 16 | Birth | 1916 – Bill Doggett, American pianist and composer (d. 1996) |
| 18298 | February 16 | Birth | 1918 – Walt Faulkner, American racing driver (d. 1956) |
| 18299 | February 16 | Birth | 1919 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer (d. 1989) |
| 18300 | February 16 | Birth | 1920 – Tony Crook, English racing driver (d. 2014) |