- Feb 1 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
- Feb 2 Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German Leipzig mayor and Nazi regime opponent (20th July plot), hanged at 60
- Feb 2 Joe Hunt, American tennis player (US National C'ship 1943), dies in fighter plane crash during training at 25
- Feb 3 José Roló, Mexican composer, dies at 61
- Feb 3 Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case) and politician, dies at 51
- Feb 5 Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent, is executed by Nazis at 23
- Feb 6 Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed in Hoogkarspel in retribution for the unrelated killing of a Dutch Nazi guard, at 27
- Feb 6 Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
- Feb 6 Robert Brasillach, French author and journalist (editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout), controversially executed for treason by firing squad at 35
- Feb 9 George Maduro, Dutch Antillian resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau at 28
- Feb 10 Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
- Feb 11 Al Dubin, Swiss-American song lyricist ("Tiptoe Through The Tulips"; "I Only Have Eyes For You"), dies at 53 [1]
- Feb 11 J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme
- Feb 12 Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (b. 1880)
- Feb 12 Henrietta Szold, American Zionist leader (founded Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies at 84
- Feb 12 Walraven van Hall, Dutch banker who led resistance against Nazis, executed by the Nazis at 39
- Feb 13 George Studd, English cricket batsman (4 Tests; Middlesex), dies at 85
- Feb 16 Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45
- Feb 18 Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (youngest ever Soviet general of the army), dies at 38
- Feb 19 John Basilone, American Marine (Medal of Honor at the Battle for Henderson Field), is killed in action at Iwo Jima at 26
- Feb 19 Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26
Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Feb 21 Dutch diarist and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust (Diary of Anne Frank), dies of typhus in the Belsen concentration camp at 15 [estimate - exact date undocumented] [1]
- Feb 21 Eric Liddell, Scottish 400m runner (Olympic gold 1924) and Christian missionary in China, dies of an inoperable brain tumor at 43 while interned at the Weihsien Internment Camp in Weifang, Shandong, China
- Feb 22 Osip Brik, Russian avant garde writer (Left Front of the Arts) and literary critic of the Russian formalist school, dies of a heart attack at 57 while climbing the stairs to his apartment
- Feb 23 Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62
- Feb 23 Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle
- Feb 24 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
- Feb 25 Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer, photographer and modernist, dies of a heart attack at 51
- Feb 27 HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen
- Feb 28 Rudolf Breslauer, German Jewish photographer (documented Westerbork transit camp), killed at Auschwitz at 41
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