2nd » 1925 serum run to Nome known as Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race named Iditarod race.
15th » 1925 serum run to Nome: The serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, with Balto being the lead dog of the last team.
21st » 'The New Yorker' publishes its first issue.
28th » The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake known as Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1925
2nd » Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
3rd » Keith Dunstan, Australian journalist and author (d. 2013)
3rd » John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005)
3rd » Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (d. 2012)
4th » Russell Hoban, American author and illustrator (d. 2011)
4th » Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (d. 2013)
4th » Gerald Sim, English actor
4th » Christopher Zeeman, Japanese-English mathematician and academic
6th » Donald Mitchell (writer) or Donald Mitchell, English musicologist and academic
6th » Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
7th » Hans Schmidt (wrestler) known as Hans Schmidt, Canadian wrestler (d. 2012)
8th » Jack Lemmon, American actor, singer, and director (d. 2001)
9th » John B. Cobb, American philosopher and theologian
9th » Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
10th » Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012)
11th » Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist (d. 2013)
11th » Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)
12th » Anthony Berry, English politician (d. 1984)
16th » Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
17th » Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
17th » Hal Holbrook, American actor and director
18th » Marcel Barbeau, Canadian painter and sculptor
18th » Jack Gilbert, American poet (d. 2012)
18th » George Kennedy, American actor
20th » Robert Altman, American director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
20th » Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Makuuchi Yokozuna known as Yokozuna (d. 1990)
20th » Heinz Kluncker, German union leader (d. 2005)
21st » Sam Peckinpah, American director and screenwriter (d. 1984)
21st » Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2014)
22nd » Edward Gorey, American illustrator and poet (d. 2000)
22nd » Gerald Stern, American poet and academic
24th » Bud Day, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
25th » Janaky Athi Nahappan, Malaysian captain and politician (d. 2014)
26th » Everton Weekes, Barbadian cricketer and referee