- Feb 1 Heather O'Rourke, American actress (Happy Days, Poltergeist), dies of intestinal ailment at 12
- Feb 1 Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (The French Connection), dies at 59
- Feb 1 Reinder Zwolsman, Dutch businessman, dies at 75
- Feb 2 Clive Epstein, British music artist manager, and brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51
- Feb 2 G. Mennen Williams, American lawyer, politician (Governor of Michigan, 1949-61), diplomat, and jurist (Chief Justice of Michigan Supreme Court, 1983-86), dies at 76
- Feb 3 Radames Gnattali, Brazilian composer and conductor (Rádio Nacional), dies at 82
- Feb 6 Barclay Plager, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (NHL All-Star 1970, 71, 73, 74 St. Louis Blues) and coach (St. Louis Blues 1977-83), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 46
- Feb 6 Lee Goodman, American comedian and stage and screen actor (Imitation of Life), dies of tuberculosis at 64
- Feb 6 Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies at 72
- Feb 7 Lin Carter, American sci-fi author (Thongor of Lemuria; The Thief of Thoth), dies of throat cancer at 57
- Feb 7 Lin[wood V] Carter, American sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
- Feb 8 Allan Cuthbertson, Australian-British stage and screen actor (Man and Superman; Captain Nemo and the Underwater City; The WInds of War), dies at 67
- Feb 10 Don Patterson, American jazz organist (Hip Cake Walk; Holiday Soul), dies at 51
- Feb 10 Paolo Renosto, Italian composer, dies at 52
- Feb 13 John Curulewski, American rock guitarist and singer (Styx), dies of a brain aneurysm at 37
- Feb 14 Frederick Loewe [Friedrich Löwe], Austrian-American musical theater composer (with Alan Jay Lerner: My Fair Lady; Camelot; Brigadoon), dies at 86
- Feb 15 Gardiner Means, US economist, dies at 91
- Feb 15 Gerard Holt, architect, dies at 83
- Feb 15 Neil R. Jones, American sci-fi writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78
- Feb 15 Richard Feynman, American theoretical physicist known for his work on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics (1965 Nobel), dies of liposarcoma at 69
- Feb 16 Charles Delaunay, French writer, magazine publisher (Le Jazz Hot), jazz musiclogist (Hot Discography), record label founder, and music promoter, dies at 77
- Feb 16 Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler, dies at 71
- Feb 18 Joe Loco [José Esteves, Jr], American Latin jazz pianist and arranger, dies from complications of diabetes at 67
- Feb 19 André F. Cournand, French physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956), dies at 92
- Feb 19 René Char, French poet and painter, dies at 80
- Feb 20 Bob O'Farrell, American baseball catcher (World Series, NL MVP 1926, St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (St.L Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds), dies at 91
- Feb 24 Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
- Feb 24 Memphis Slim [John Len Chatman], American blues musician ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), dies at 72
- Feb 24 Uno "Miff" Görling, Swedish jazz trombonist, arranger, bandleader, and composer, dies at 78
- Feb 25 Amapola Del Vando, actress (Cowboy), dies at 78
- Feb 28 Harvey Kuenn, American baseball utility (AL batting champion 1959; 10 × All-Star 1953–1960²; Detroit Tigers), dies from heart disease and diabetes at 57
- Feb 28 Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven), dies at 75
- Feb 28 Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99
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