August Horch (1868-1951)
Feb 3 German engineer and automobile pioneer who founded Audi, dies at 82
- Feb 9 Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (Eddy Duchin Orchestra), dies of acute myelogenous leukemia at 41
- Feb 10 Joseph Bovet, Swiss composer and conductor (Fribourg folk music), dies at 71
- Feb 12 Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan and recognized as the creator of the name “Pakistan” for a separate Muslim, homeland in South Asia and is known as the founder of the Pakistan National Movement), dies at 53
- Feb 13 Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist (The Big Fisherman), dies at 73
- Feb 16 Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65
- Feb 16 Hisatada Otaka, Japanese conductor (Japan Symphony Orchestra, 1942-51), and composer, dies at 39
- Feb 17 Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, Armenian composer, dies at 94
- Feb 18 Pieter Hopmans, Dutch Bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade), dies at 85
André Gide (1869-1951)
Feb 19 French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), dies of pneumonia at 81
- Feb 20 Howard Brockway, American composer, dies at 80
- Feb 21 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje), dies at 63
- Feb 25 "Smokey" Joe Williams, American Baseball HOF pitcher (NgL, Mexico, Caribbean 1905-32; no-hitter 1919 NY Lincoln Giants), dies at 64
- Feb 27 Henry Louis Smith, American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph, dies at 91
- Feb 28 Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Russian playwright and journalist, dies at 50
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