- Feb 1 Barış Manço, Turkish rock guitarist, singer-songwriter (Kurtalan Ekspres - "Arkadaşım Eşek (My Friend the Donkey"), and television producer (From 7 to 77), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Feb 1 Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (Washington National Gallery of Art), dies at 91
- Feb 1 Rudolf Kárpáti, Hungarian fencer (Olympic gold sabre team 1948, 52, 56, 60; individual 1956, 60; World C'ship gold x 7), dies at 78
- Feb 2 David McComb, Australian singer-songwriter, and guitarist (The Triffids, 1976-89; The Blackeyed Susans, 1989–93), dies after unsuccessful heart transplant at 38
- Feb 3 Gwen Guthrie, American singer ("Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent"), dies of cancer at 48
- Feb 5 Neville Bonner, the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia, dies at 76
- Feb 5 Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
- Feb 7 Hussein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952-99), dies of cancer at 63
- Feb 7 José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
- Feb 7 Robert "Bobby" Troup, American jazz pianist and actor (Emergency, Acapulco), dies of a heart attack at 80
- Feb 8 Iris Murdoch, Irish-British novelist ("Under the Net"; "The Sea, The Sea") and philosopher ("The Sovereignty of Good"), dies at 79
- Feb 9 Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
- Feb 11 Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist (Charlie Mingus), saxophonist, drummer, composer, arranger, and educator, dies from an unsolved gunshot at 76
- Feb 14 Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey), dies at 65
- Feb 14 John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor to Nixon (convicted over Watergate break-in), dies at 73
- Feb 15 Big L [Lamont Coleman], American rapper (Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous), murdered at 24 after being shot 9 times in the face and chest in a drive-by shooting
- Feb 15 Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (Nobel 1990-pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics), dies at 72
- Feb 15 Jan Masseus, Dutch composer, dies at 86
- Feb 16 Betty Roché [Mary Elizabeth Roach], American jazz singer (Duke Ellington - "Take The 'A' Train"), dies at 81
- Feb 16 Björn Afzelius, Swedish rock and progg singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hoola Bandoola Band), dies of cancer at 52
- Feb 16 Johan Kvandal, Norwegian composer, organist, and music critic, dies at 79
- Feb 16 Michael Larson, American "Press Your Luck" scandal big-winning contestant, dies of cancer at 49
- Feb 16 Necil Kazım Akses, Turkish classical composer, dies at 90
- Feb 17 Shirley Stoler, American actress (The Honeymoon Killers, Seven Beauties), dies at 69
- Feb 18 Noam Pitlik, American character actor (Hogan's Heroes; Shnford & Son; The Bob Newhart Show - "Mr. Gianelli") and Emmy Award-winning director (Barney Miller; Wings; Mr. Belvedere), dies at 66
- Feb 19 Mohammad al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite cleric and leader who called for government reform, assassinated in an ambush in Najaf, Iraq at 55 [1]
- Feb 20 Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
- Feb 20 Howard Boatwright, American composer and violinist, dies at 80
- Feb 20 Lotti van der Gaag, Dutch sculptor and painter, dies at 75
- Feb 20 Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
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Feb 21 American biochemist and drug researcher who developed groundbreaking leukemia and herpes drug treatments (Nobel 1988), dies at 81
- Feb 21 Wilmer Mizell, American politician (Rep-R-North Carolina 1969-75), and MLB baseball pitcher, 1952-62, 2X All-Star (St. Louis Cardinals and 2 other teams), dies at 68
- Feb 22 Carlos Hathcock, American Marine Corps sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills (Vietnam War), dies of complications resulting from multiple sclerosis at 56
- Feb 22 Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
- Feb 23 Ruth Gipps, British prolific conductor and composer, dies of cancer at 78
- Feb 24 Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
- Feb 24 Derek Nimmo, British comedic character actor (All Gas and Gaiters), dies of pneumonia while recovering from head injuries incurred in a fall at 68
- Feb 24 Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader, dies at 82
- Feb 25 Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (AEC, Plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies at 86
- Feb 27 Horace Tapscott, American jazz pianist and composer (Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, 1961-98), dies at 64
- Feb 28 Bill Talbert, American tennis player (9 x Grand Slam doubles titles; US Open singles 1944, 45 runner-up; International Tennis HOF), dies at 80
- Feb 28 Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
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