- Feb 1 Olan Soule, American character radio and screen actor (The First Nighter Program; Captain Midnight; Dragnet; Arnie), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Feb 2 Stephen Barclay, American actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
- Feb 4 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist and director (KNMI), dies at 84
- Feb 6 Gwendoline "Gwen" Watford, British actress (Present Laughter, Cleopatra, Taste the Blood of Dracula), dies from cancer at 66
- Feb 6 Joseph Cotten, American actor (Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Airport 77, Hearse), dies from pneumonia at 88
- Feb 8 Ken Hall, Australian director and producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
- Feb 9 Jarmila Novotná, Czech-American soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1940-56), and actress (The Search), dies at 86
- Feb 11 Sorrell Booke, American actor (Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazard), dies of colorectal cancer at 64
- Feb 11 William Conrad [John Cann], American actor (The Killers, Bullwinkle Show, Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
- Feb 15 George "Tiger" Haynes, American jazz guitarist (The Three Flames), and stage and screen actor (The Wiz; In the Heat of the Night), dies at 79
- Feb 15 Maria Britneva, Russian actress (A Room with a View, Maurice), dies of heart failure 72
- Feb 19 Derek Jarman, English filmmaker (The Tempest), artist and gay rights activist, dies of AIDS at 52
- Feb 19 Fausto Bara, Mexican-American actor (The Renegades - "Gaucho"), dies of AIDS at 42
- Feb 19 Gordon Sparling, Canadian pioneering filmmaker (Canadian Cameo series - Canada's first major films with sound), dies at 93 [1]
Dinah Shore (1917-1994)
Feb 24 American singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet), actress and TV personality (Dinah Shore Show; Nabisco DS Championship), dies of ovarian cancer at 76