- Feb 3 Marc Mitscher, American naval commander (WWII - Task Force 58 in the Pacific), dies at 60
- Feb 5 Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed
- Feb 5 Hans Fallada [Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen], German writer (Little Man, What Now?), dies at 53
- Feb 6 Luigi Russolo, Italian Futurist composer (The Art of Noises), dies at 61
- Feb 8 Ernest Williams, American composer, dies at 65
- Feb 12 [Hooper] Sidney Toler, American theater director, playwright, stage and screen actor (Madame X; Meeting at Midnight; Charlie Chan films, 1938-46), dies of cancer at 72
- Feb 24 Pierre Janet, French psychologist and neurologist (contributed to the modern concept of mental and emotional disorders involving anxiety, phobias, and other abnormal behaviour), dies at 87
- Feb 25 Friedrich Paschen, German physicist (Paschen series), dies at 82
- Feb 26 Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
- Feb 26 Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council, dies at 78
- Feb 26 Kálmán Tihanyi, Hungarian physicist and engineer (invented cathode ray tube for television), dies at 49
- Feb 27 Francis MacKinnon, English cricket batsman (1 Test; Kent CCC) and 35th Chief of MacKinnon clan, dies at 98
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