- Feb 1 Ernie Bromley, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests; first Western Australian to play Test cricket for Australia), dies at 54
- Feb 3 Joe Meek, English record producer and influential sound engineer (Telstar), commits suicide at 37
- Feb 3 Winifred Kingston, British silent screen actress (The Squaw Man, Davy Crockett), dies at 72
- Feb 4 Albert Orsborn, English 6th General of The Salvation Army, dies at 80
- Feb 5 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87
- Feb 5 Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
- Feb 6 Hans Jacob Nielsen, Danish boxer (Olympic gold lightweight 1924), dies at 67
- Feb 6 Martine Carol [Maryse Mopurer], French actress (Lola Montèsm, Trente et quarante), dies of a heart attack at 46
- Feb 7 Henry Morgenthau Jr., US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45) who helped design the New Deal and Lend Lease programs, dies at 74
- Feb 11 Edmond Hall, American jazz clarinetist (Red Allen; Teddy Wilson), bandleader (Café Society Band), and composer (Profoundly Blue), dies at 65
- Feb 12 (Francis) "Muggsy" Spanier, American swing jazz and Dixieland revival cornetist and trumpeter, dies at 65
- Feb 13 Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian pre-eminent poet and film director, dies in a car crash at 32
- Feb 14 James Schneider, American silent film director (A Foolish Romance) and actor (Keystone Kops shorts), dies at 85
- Feb 14 Sig Ruman [Siegfried Albon Rumann], German-American actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), dies at 82
- Feb 15 Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), dies at 79
- Feb 15 J. Frank Duryea, American inventor (Duryea Motor Wagon Company, first auto built in the US), dies at 97
- Feb 15 William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76
- Feb 16 (Lester) "Smiley" Burnette [Burnett], American country music performer, singer-songwriter ("Ridin' Down the Canyon (To Watch the Sun Go Down)"), and actor (Petticoat Junction - "Charlie"), dies of leukemia at 55
- Feb 18 Manuel Palau Boix, Spanish composer (Conservatory of Valencia), dies at 74
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Feb 18 American theoretical physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), dies of throat cancer at 62
- Feb 19 Wilmer King, 1st causality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
- Feb 21 Charles Beaumont, American writer (Twilight Zone), dies at 38
- Feb 22 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53
- Feb 24 Franz Waxman [Wachsmann], German-American film score composer (Rebecca; Sunset Boulevard; A Place In The Sun), dies of cancer at 60
- Feb 25 John Griggs, American actor (The Joey Bishop Show; Fearless Fosdick), dies at 58
- Feb 25 Walter "Fats" Pichon American jazz pianist, singer, and big bandleader, dies at 60
- Feb 28 Henry Luce, American magazine publisher (Time, Fortune, Life), dies at 68
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