Portal:The arts/Selected anniversaries/February

• 5 February 1972 – The American Modernist poet Marianne Moore dies in New York City at the age of 84
• 6 February 1918 – The Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, dies in Vienna
• 19 February 1704 – Ichikawa Danjūrō I (pictured), an early and influential kabuki actor, is stabbed and killed onstage by fellow actor Ikushima Hanroku
• 24 February 1607 – Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, the earliest opera that is still performed today, premieres in Mantua
• 27 February 1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premieres to poor reviews