- Feb 1 Foy Draper, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m relay 1936 WR 39.8s), dies in action as a USAF pilot at 31
- Feb 2 Jack Burke Sr., American golfer (US Open 1920 runner-up; Senior PGA C'ship 1941), dies at 54
- Feb 3 Alexander Goode, American US Navy chaplain and rabbi (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 31 [1]
- Feb 3 Clark Poling, American US Army chaplain and Protestant minister (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 32 [1]
- Feb 3 George Fox, American US Army chaplain and Methodist minister (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 42 [1]
- Feb 3 John Washington, American US Army chaplain and Catholic priest (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 34 [1]
- Feb 4 Frank Calder, British-Canadian 1st NHL president, dies at 65
- Feb 5 Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis
- Feb 6 Hendrik Seyffardt, Dutch general who collaborated with the Nazi regime, assassinated by the Dutch resistance at 71
- Feb 9 World War II: Dutch fascist official Hermannus Reydon and his wife are shot by resistance members, his wife dies immediately and he dies six months later
- Feb 13 William Walraven, Dutch journalist and writer (Neglected Grouser), dies at 55
- Feb 14 David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert spaces, invariant theory, axiomatization of geometry, dies at 81
- Feb 14 Dora Gerson, German-Jewish actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (Caravan of Death), dies in Auschwitz concentration camp at 43
- Feb 15 William Victor Harris, American composer, dies at 73
- Feb 17 Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer, dies at 54
- Feb 17 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
- Feb 18 Henri Polak, Dutch labor leader (General Diamond Workers' Union), journalist, and Social-Democrat politician (Member of Parliament), dies of pneumonia at 74
- Feb 19 Lynne Overman, American actor (Reap the Wild Wind), dies from a heart attack at 55
- Feb 22 Christoph Probst, German medical student and anti-Nazi political activist, member of non-violent resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), executed by guillotine at 23
- Feb 22 Hans Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, founder of non-violent resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), executed by guillotine at 24
- Feb 22 Sophie Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, member of non-violent resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), executed by guillotine at 21
- Feb 24 Fred Tate, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Sussex CCC) and coach (Derbyshire CCC), dies at 75
- Feb 26 Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist, and writer, dies of cancer at 73
- Feb 26 Theodor Eicke, German Nazi official who developed the concentration camps, killed at 50 when his plane shot down
- Feb 27 Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
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