Editing 1939 (section)

=== February ===
[[File:Papst Pius XI. 1JS.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pope Pius XI]]]]
[[File:Henri Jaspar.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Henri Jaspar]]]]
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Lawrence Marston]], American actor, playwright, and film director (b. [[1857]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Janez Frančišek Gnidovec]], Yugoslav [[Roman Catholic]] priest and venerable (b. [[1873]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Edward Sapir]], German-American anthropologist and linguist (b. [[1884]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Teresa Mañé]], Spanish teacher, editor and writer (b. [[1865]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Davies|first=Catherine|title=Spanish Women's Writing 1849&ndash;1996|chapter=The Libertarian Superwoman: Federica Montseny (1905-1994)|year=1998|publisher=Athlone Press|location=London|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppRtzQXGS8wC&pg=PA138|page=78|isbn=0-485-91006-3|lccn=98-11468|oclc=468307323}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III]], Maharada of Baroda (b. [[1863]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Henry Balfour]], British archaeologist (b. [[1863]])
* [[February 10]]
** [[Pope Pius XI]] (b. [[1857]])
** Patriarch [[Torkom Koushagian of Jerusalem]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Franz Schmidt (composer)|Franz Schmidt]], Austrian composer (b. [[1874]])
* [[February 12]] 
** [[Potenciano Gregorio]], Filipino musician (b. [[1880]])
** [[S. P. L. Sørensen]], Danish chemist (b. [[1868]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army officer, born 1859)|Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon]], British general (b. [[1859]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Henri Jaspar]], Belgian politician, 27th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Josef Moroder-Lusenberg]], Austro-Italian artist (b.[[1846]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Kanoko Okamoto]], Japanese tanka poet (b. [[1899]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Antonio Machado]], Spanish poet (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=William Arrowsmith|author2=James Fearon Brown|title=The Chimera: A Rough Beast|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgIwAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|page=5}}</ref>
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne]], British peer, soldier (b. [[1895]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Ivan Fedko]], Soviet army commander (b. [[1897]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Nadezhda Krupskaya]], [[Russians|Russian]] [[Marxist]] revolutionary, [[Vladimir Lenin]]'s widow (b. [[1869]])