- Feb 1 Annie van Ommeren-Averink [Hanna Jacoba of Ommeren-Averink], Dutch politician (CPN), dies at 77
- Feb 1 Carol Dempster, American film actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
- Feb 1 Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
- Feb 1 Phil Watson, Canadian NHL right wing (Stanley Cup 1940 [NYR], 1944 [Montreal Canadiens]) and coach (NY Rangers), dies at 76
- Feb 3 Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
- Feb 3 Nancy Kulp, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, Shane), dies of cancer at 69
- Feb 4 Bob Leslie, American actor (Cinderella; Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64
- Feb 5 Dean Jagger, American actor (White Christmas, Vanishing Point), dies at about 87
- Feb 5 Pedro Arrupe, Spanish Jesuit priest (1st responder after the bombing of Hiroshima), dies at 83
Danny Thomas (1912-1991)
Feb 6 American actor, comedian and TV host (Danny Thomas Show), dies of a heart attack at 79
- Feb 6 Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies
- Feb 6 Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist (Nobel Prize 1969), dies at 78
- Feb 7 Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
- Feb 7 Dick Winslow, American actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
- Feb 7 Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
- Feb 7 John Steinbeck IV, American author and journalist
- Feb 8 Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 2 wickets; Punjab), dies at 47
- Feb 9 James Cleveland, American gospel singer, dies at 59
- Feb 10 Walter Klien, Austrian pianist, dies of cancer at 62
- Feb 11 Ajla Rachmanova, Russian-Austrian author (Students), dies at 92
- Feb 11 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building, Centre Pompidou), dies at 90
- Feb 11 Robert W. Holley, American biochemist who worked with RNA (Nobel Prize 1968), dies at 71
- Feb 12 Edward A. Blatt, Polish-born American director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88
- Feb 12 Robert F. Wagner Jr., Mayor of New York City (Democrat: 1954-65), dies at 80
- Feb 12 Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player, dies in a car crash at 22
- Feb 13 Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of a heart attack at 67
- Feb 13 Eddie Bartell, American actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83
- Feb 13 Ron Pickering, British athletics coach (GB 1964 Summer Olympics) and broadcaster (BBC), dies after a heart bypass operation at 60
- Feb 14 Arno Breker, German architect and sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90
- Feb 14 Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American scholar, dies at 77
- Feb 14 John A. McCone, American politician (Head of CIA 1961-65), dies at 89
- Feb 14 Roy Lanham, American western swing and jazz guitarist (The Whippoorwills; Sons of the Pioneers, 1961-86), dies at 68
- Feb 15 Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
- Feb 15 Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78
- Feb 16 Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies
- Feb 17 Enrique Bermudez, Nicaraguan commandant, founder of the Nicaraguan Contras, assassinated at 58
- Feb 19 Peggy Mondo, American actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50
- Feb 21 John Sherman Cooper, American jurist, politician (US Senator), and diplomat (Ambassador to India, 1954-55; Ambassador to East Germany, 1974-75), dies of heart failure at 89
- Feb 21 Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina considered the 1st lady of British Ballet (Giselle), dies at 71
- Feb 21 Nutan Bahl, Indian actress (Seema, Bandini), dies of breast cancer at 54
- Feb 21 Roger Swaybill, American actor and writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47
- Feb 24 George Gobel, American humorist, comedian and TV host (The George Gobel Show), dies at 71
- Feb 24 Héctor Rial, Spanish soccer striker (Real Madrid, 5 straight Euro Cup C'ships 1956-60), dies at 62
- Feb 24 Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
- Feb 24 John Charles Daly, American, newscaster and TV game show host (What's My Line), dies at 77
- Feb 24 Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
- Feb 24 Webb Pierce, American honky-tonk country singer-songwriter, and guitarist ("In The Jailhouse Now"; "Wondering"; "There Stands The Glass"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 64
- Feb 25 Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South African Kwazulu politician (first President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA)), dies at 41
- Feb 26 (Bulee) "Slim" Gaillard, American jazz singer-songwriter ("Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)"), dies of cancer at 80
- Feb 26 (Bulee) "Slim" Galliard, American jazz singer, musician, songwriter ("Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)"), and actor, dies of cancer at 75
- Feb 27 Hein van Royen, Dutch director of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (1974-91), dies at 52
- Feb 27 Robert Widlar, American engineer and inventor of linear integrated circuits, dies of a heart attack at 53
- Feb 27 Robert-Jan Akkerman, Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered
- Feb 28 Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies
- Feb 28 Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
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