- Feb 2 Adolf Vogl, German composer, dies at 87
- Feb 3 Anna May Wong [Wong Liu-tsong], Chinese-American actress, 1st Asian-American movie star (Shanghai Express; Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), and 1st Asian-American on US currency (American Women series quarter, 2022), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Feb 3 William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, British politician (Governor-General of Australia 1960-61), dies at 67
- Feb 4 Piet[er] L. Kramer, Influential Dutch architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 79
- Feb 5 Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
- Feb 6 Archibald T Davison, American musicologist and composer, dies at 77
- Feb 8 William Duncan, Scottish actor (Hopalong Rides Again, Thunder Trail), dies at 81
- Feb 9 Grigory Levenfish, Russian International chess grandmaster, dies at 70
- Feb 9 Oscar Egg, Swiss track and road bicycle racer (3 x world hour record), dies at 70
- Feb 10 Velma Middleton, American jazz vocalist (Louis Armstrong's big bands and small groups), dies from complications of a stroke at 43
- Feb 11 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82
- Feb 11 Kate Carew [Mary Williams], American caricaturist, dies at 91
- Feb 14 Wallis Clark, British-American stage and screen actor (Penny Serenade; Great Guy; Postal Inspector; Easy Money), dies at 78
- Feb 15 Dudley Richards, American figure skater (U.S. Pairs champion, 1961), dies in a plane crash at 29
- Feb 15 Jack Whiting, American actor and singer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 59
- Feb 15 Laurence Owen, American figure skater (U.S. and North American champion), dies in a plane crash at 16
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Feb 15 American figure skater (9 time US National Champion) and coach, dies in a plane crash at 49
- Feb 15 Maribel Yerxa Owen, American figure skater (U.S. Pairs champion, 1961), dies in a plane crash at 20
- Feb 16 (Charles) "Dazzy" Vance, American Baseball HOF pitcher (7 x NL strike-out leader; World Series 1934 St Louis Cardinals; NL MVP & Triple Crown of Pitching,1924 Brooklyn Robins), dies at 69
- Feb 17 Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], American stage and silent film actress (Blood & Sand; Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde), dies of a heart attack at 66
- Feb 20 Otto Huiswoud, Suriname-born political activist and editor-in-chief (Negro Worker), dies at 67
- Feb 20 Percy Grainger, Australian-American concert pianist and composer (Hill Songs; Country Gardens), dies at 78
- Feb 21 Blaise Cendrars [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet and writer, dies at 73
- Feb 21 Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor (developments in refrigeration), dies of lung cancer at 67
- Feb 22 George de Cuevas, Chilean-born ballet impresario and choreographer (Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas), dies at 75 or 76
- Feb 22 Nick LaRocca, American jazz coronetist and composer (Tiger Rag), dies at 71
- Feb 23 Wilf Ferguson, West Indian cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies at 43
- Feb 26 Karl Albiker, German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83
- Feb 26 Mohammed V, Sultan of Morrocco 1925-57), King of Morocco (1957-61), dies at 51
- Feb 27 Platt Adams, American field athlete (Olympic gold standing high jump 1912), dies at 75
- Feb 28 Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer and music publisher, dies at 64
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