- Feb 4 Sue Carol, American actress (She's My Weakness) and talent agent, dies at 73 of a heart attack
- Feb 5 Dolores Moran, American actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies of cancer at 56
- Feb 8 Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (The Dating Game), dies at 65
- Feb 11 Eleanor Powell, American stage and screen actress and tap dancer (Born to Dance, Broadway Melody films), dies of ovarian cancer at 69
- Feb 11 Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76
- Feb 11 Victor Jory, Canadian-American stage and screen actor (A Midsummer Night's Dream; Kings Row; Manhunt), dies of a heart attack at 79
- Feb 13 Gluyas Williams, American cartoonist (Fellows Citizen), dies at 93
- Feb 14 Henk Schaer [Hendricus Schaareman], Dutch actor and conductor (Majoor Barbara, Lijmen), dies at 79
- Feb 17 Lee Strasberg, Austrian acting coach and actor (The Godfather: Part II, Somewhere in the Night), dies at 80
- Feb 18 Tina Carver, actress (Inside Detroit, Uranium Boom), dies at 58
- Feb 24 Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
- Feb 26 Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japanese actor and director (Gate of Hell; A Page of Madness; Jujiro; Jigoku-mon), dies at 86