- Feb 3 Werner Bock, German writer, dies at 68
- Feb 5 Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71
- Feb 7 Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
- Feb 9 Harriet Ware (Krumbhaar), American concert pianist, composer (Women's Triumphal March; The Rose Is Red; The Varying Shore), and music educator, dies at 84
- Feb 10 Willem Paerels, Dutch-Belgian painter and graphic artist, dies at 83
- Feb 15 Vladimir Sokoloff, Russian actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72
- Feb 17 Bruno Walter, German-French opera and symphony conductor (Vienna Philharmonic; NY Philharmonic), dies at 85
- Feb 17 Joseph Kearns, American actor (George-Dennis the Menace), des at 55
- Feb 19 Albert Elkus, American composer, dies at 77
Georgios Papanicolaou (1883-1962)
Feb 19 Greek-American doctor, cytopathologist, and inventor of the Pap smear, dies at 78
- Feb 19 James Barton, American actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh), dies at 71
- Feb 20 Halliwell Hobbes, British actor (Gaslight, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 84
- Feb 25 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist and historian, dies at 81
- Feb 26 Carl Ehrenberg, German composer, kapellmeister, and pedagogue, dies at 83
- Feb 27 Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
- Feb 28 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, American comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
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