Editing 1889 (section)

=== February ===
[[File:Ernest Tyldesley c1925.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ernest Tyldesley]]]]
* [[February 2]] – [[Jean de Lattre de Tassigny]], French general, posthumous [[Marshal of France]] (d. [[1952]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Risto Ryti]], [[Prime Minister of Finland|Prime Minister]] and [[President of Finland]] (d. [[1956]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Ernest Tyldesley]], English cricketer (d. [[1962]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Harry Nyquist]], Swedish-American contributor to [[information theory]] (d. [[1976]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Hawthorne C. Gray]], American balloonist (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Ernest Marsden]], British physicist (d. [[1970]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl]], South African politician (d. [[1975]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Olave Baden-Powell]], English founder of the Girl Guides (d. [[1977]])
** [[R. G. Collingwood]], English philosopher and historian (d. [[1943]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Victor Fleming]], American motion picture director (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Homer S. Ferguson]], American politician (d. [[1982]])