- Feb 2 Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (British heavyweight champion 1956-58), dies at 56
- Feb 2 Joel Fluellen, American actor (Porgy and Bess, Burning Cross, Learning Tree), commits suicide at 82
Whipper Billy Watson (1917-1990)
Feb 4 Canadian professional wrestler, dies at 74
- Feb 6 Jane Novak, American silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94
Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990)
Feb 6 American Acadeny and Emmy Award-winning composer and songwriter ("All The Way"; "Love & Marriage"; "Come Fly With Me"), dies following a stroke at 77 [1]
- Feb 6 John Merivale, Canadian-British actor (Caltiki), dies at 72
- Feb 7 Alfredo M. Santos, Philippine's first four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
- Feb 7 Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Archbishop, and human rights activist, Bishop of Brazil, dies at 90
- Feb 7 Nathan Wartels, American publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
- Feb 8 Del Shannon [Charles Westover], American rock musician and songwriter ("Runaway"), commits suicide at 55
- Feb 8 George de Mestral, Swiss engineer (invented Velcro), dies at 83
- Feb 13 Ken Lynch, American actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
- Feb 14 Graeme Hole, Australian cricket batsman (18 Tests, 6 x 50; NSW CA), dies from cancer at 59
- Feb 14 Jean Wallace [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66
- Feb 14 Tony Holiday, German singer, dies of complications from AIDS at 38
- Feb 15 Henry Brandon [Heinrich von Kleinbach], German-American character actor (The Searchers; Assault on Precinct 13; Drums of Fu Manchu), dies of a heart attack at 77
- Feb 15 Jack Fletcher, American actor (Calucci's Department, Once Upon a Mattress), dies of a heart attack at 68
Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Feb 16 American graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review) and social activist, dies of AIDS at 31
- Feb 17 Erik Rhodes [Ernest Sharpe], American actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz), dies of pneumonia at 84
- Feb 17 Frans Kellendonk, Dutch novelist (Bouwval (Ruin); Mystiek lichaam (Mystical Body). dies at 39
- Feb 17 Hap Day, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman (Stanley Cup 1932 [captain], 42, 45, 47, 48, 1949 [coach], 1951 [assistant manager]; Toronto Maple Leafs), dies at 88
- Feb 17 Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife), dies at 39
- Feb 18 Hulk, fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies
- Feb 19 Michael Powell, English director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
- Feb 22 Stephen Burns, American actor (Casey's Shadow), dies from AIDS complications at 35
- Feb 23 Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch lawyer and politician (Liberal), dies at 53
- Feb 23 James Gavin, US 82nd Airborne Division General (Sicily/Normandy), dies at 82
- Feb 23 Jose Napoleon Duarte, Salvadoran politician, President of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
- Feb 24 Johnnie Ray, American singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
Feb 24 American publisher of Forbes Magazine, dies of a heart attack at 70
- Feb 24 Sandro Pertini, 7th President of Italy (1978-85), dies at 93
- Feb 24 Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
- Feb 26 Cornell Gunther, American musician (The Coasters - "Poison Ivy"), dies at 53
- Feb 26 Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies
- Feb 26 Scott Jarvis, American theatrical actor and singer (1776; Here's Where I Belong), dies of AIDS at 48
- Feb 27 Les Ames, English cricket wicket-keeper/batsman (47 Tests, 97 dismissals, 2,434 runs @ 40.56), dies at 84
- Feb 27 Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
- Feb 28 Colin Milburn, English cricket batsman (9 Tests, 2 x 100, 2 x 50, HS 139; Northamptonshire CCC, MCC, WA CA), dies of a heart attack at 48
- Feb 28 Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86
- Feb 28 Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies
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