Farkas Bolyai ( February 9, 1775 – November 20, 1856, also known as Wolfgang Bolyai in Germany ) was a Hungarian mathematician, mainly known for his work in geometry, and of his son János Bolyai.

Franz Schmidt ( 22 December 187411 February 1939 ) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.

Gyula Count Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka ( 3 March 1823 – 18 February 1890 ) was a Hungarian statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary ( 1867 – 1871 ) and subsequently as Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary ( 1871 – 1879 ).

On 17 February 1867 the king appointed him the first constitutional Hungarian premier.

Michael Polanyi, FRS ( 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976 ) was a Hungarian polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.

Nikita Khrushchev's February 1956 speech " On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences ", and the subsequent Hungarian Revolution of 1956, confused the Communist Party of the USA, the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the Japanese Communist Party, none of whom were able to present a unified response.

The Group originated in a summit meeting of the heads of state or government of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland held in the Hungarian castle town of Visegrád on 15 February 1991 ( not to be mistaken with Vyšehrad, a castle in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, or with the town of Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina ).

* February 16 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician ( b. 1905 )

* February 2 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher ( b. 1922 )

* February 11 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian conductor ( b. 1877 )

* February 24 – Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian international civil servant ( d. 2004 )

* February 9 – Norbert Rózsa, Hungarian swimmer

* February 13 – János Kardos, Hungarian Slovenes evangelical priest, teacher and writer ( d. 1875 )

* February 19 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist ( b. 1892 )

* February 25 – László Bodnár, Hungarian footballer

* February 9 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1900 )

* February 22 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician ( d. 1956 )

* February 18 – Gergely Luthár, Hungarian Slovene writer ( d. 1925 )

* February 2 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect ( d. 1955 )

* February 14 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer ( b. 1922 )

Sigismund of Luxemburg KG ( Hungarian: Zsigmond, Croatian: Žigmund, Czech: Zikmund ) ( 14 February 1368 – 9 December 1437 ) was King of Hungary, of Croatia from 1387, of Bohemia from 1419, and Holy Roman Emperor for four years from 1433 until 1437, the last Emperor of the House of Luxemburg.

On 18 February 1853, the Emperor survived an assassination attempt by Hungarian nationalist János Libényi.

Kálmán Kalocsay ( October 6, 1891 – February 27, 1976 ), in Hungarian name order Kalocsay Kálmán () is one of the foremost figures in the history of Esperanto literature.

* February 19 – UK première of Béla Bartók's still-unpublished Third String Quartet, by The Hungarian String Quartet at the Wigmore Hall, London.

Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS ( original Hungarian name: Gábor Dénes ; 5 June 1900 – 8 February 1979 ) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

She was married to the English film director Sir Carol Reed from 3 February 1943 until August 1947, and subsequently to a Hungarian physician, Tibor Csato.

Agner Krarup Erlang ( January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929 ) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;, ) ( 30 April 177723 February 1855 ) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.

February 14, 1943 ) was a German mathematician.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

Giordano Bruno (; 1548 – February 17, 1600 ), ( Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus ) born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.

Lodovico Ferrari ( February 2, 1522 – October 5, 1565 ) was an Italian mathematician.

Maxwell Herman Alexander " Max " Newman, FRS ( 7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984 ) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.

Oliver Heaviside FRS ( ( 18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925 ) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations ( later found to be equivalent to Laplace transforms ), reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis.

Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn, Pavel Uryson () ( February 3, 1898, Odessa – August 17, 1924, Batz-sur-Mer ) was a Jewish mathematician who is best known for his contributions in the theory of dimension, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma, both of which are fundamental results in topology.

René Descartes (; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form: " Cartesian "; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

Seymour Papert ( born February 29, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa ) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator.

* February 24 – Claude Elwood Shannon, American mathematician ( b. 1916 )

* February 11 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician ( b. 1552 )

* February 14 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( d. 2011 )

* February 22 – George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician ( born 1851 )

* February 2 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician ( d. 1996 )

* February 1 – Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist ( b. 1819 )

* February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist ( b. 1894 )

* February 25 – Kurt Mahler, German-Australian mathematician ( b. 1903 )

* February 12 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician ( b. 1831 )

* February 3 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician ( d. 1978 )

* February 19 – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician ( b. 1815 )

* February 22 – Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1874 )