- Feb 1 Mort Marshall [Mortimer Haig Lichtenstein], American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Dumplings), dies of coronary arrest at 60
- Feb 2 Jim Burke, Australian cricket batsman (24 Tests; record for most innings in a complete career without scoring a duck [44]) and broadcaster (ABC), dies of self inflicted gunshot wounds at 48
Sid Vicious (1957-1979)
Feb 2 English musician and bassist (Sex Pistols), dies of a heroin overdose at 21
- Feb 3 Jody Gilbert, American actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies at 62
- Feb 5 Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (20 Tests for England, avg 59.23), dies at 77
- Feb 6 Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer, dies at 47
- Feb 6 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian, and museum director (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1959-75), dies at 68
- Feb 7 Herbert "Peanuts" Holland, American swing jazz trumpeter, dies at 68
- Feb 7 Josef Mengele 'the Angel of Death', German Nazi officer and concentration camp doctor, drowns of the coast of Brazil at 67
- Feb 7 Warren Giles, American Baseball HOF executive (President National League 1951-69; GM Cincinnati Reds 1937–51), dies at 82
- Feb 8 Jim Smith, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests), dies at 72
- Feb 8 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet and writer (against Pasternak), dies at 82
- Feb 9 Allen Tate, American poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems), dies at 79
Dennis Gabor (1900-1979)
Feb 9 Hungarian-British engineer and physicist (invented holography, Nobel Prize 1971), dies at 79
- Feb 9 Jim Smith, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies at 72
- Feb 12 Jean Renoir, French film director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion) and actor (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
- Feb 14 Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered
- Feb 16 Louise Allbritton, American actress (The Egg and I, Stage Door, Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 58
- Feb 16 Mehdi Rahimi, Iranian general and military governor of Tehran under the Shah of Iran, executed by a firing squad during the Islamic Revolution at around 57
- Feb 16 Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed
- Feb 17 Bill Gargan, American actor (The Bells of St. Mary's; You Only Live Once), dies from a heart attack at 73
- Feb 21 Ray Whitley, American country and western singer-songwriter ("Back in the Saddle Again") and actor (Tim Holt films), dies at 77
- Feb 23 W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician, dies at 78
- Feb 28 Jane Hylton [Audrey Gwendolene Clark], British actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot, Daybreak), dies of a heart attack at 52
- Feb 28 Mr Ed, talking horse, dies
- Feb 28 Paul Alverdes, German writer (Pfeiferstube), dies at 81
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