- Feb 5 Ernest Blood, American Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Passaic HS, NJ, 200-1 record, 1915-24), dies at 82
- Feb 6 Rosey Rowswell, American MLB broadcaster (Pittsburgh Prates 1936-54), dies from uremic poisoning at 71
- Feb 12 Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71
- Feb 12 S Z Sakall [Gerö Jenö], Hungarian stage and film character actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 72
- Feb 14 Charles Cuvillier, French composer of operetta (The Naughty Princess), dies at 77
- Feb 17 Otto J. Gombosi, Hungarian-American musicologist, dies of a heart attack at 52
- Feb 18 Sadako Sasaki, School student(b. 1944)
- Feb 23 Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (L'otage-1909), dies at 86
- Feb 27 Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66