- Feb 2 Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
- Feb 2 Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 53
- Feb 5 Johann Blaskowitz, German general (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64
- Feb 6 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38
- Feb 7 Red McKenzie, American jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies at 48
- Feb 9 Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies at 65
- Feb 10 Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies
- Feb 11 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
- Feb 14 Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)
- Feb 21 Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, dies at 80
- Feb 23 John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)