Buddy Holly
Feb 3 Buddy Holly, American rock and roll musician (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash at 22
Buddy Holly
- Feb 3 Ritchie Valens, American rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba), dies in plane crash at 17
- Feb 4 Una O'Connor, actress (Banjo, Invisible Man), dies at 78
- Feb 5 Gwili Andre, actress (No Other Woman, Roar of the Dragon), dies
- Feb 5 Curt Sachs, German musicologist, dies at 77
- Feb 7 Daniel François Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (1948-54) who began the implementation of apartheid, dies at 84
- Feb 7 Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
- Feb 7 Guitar Slim [Eddie Jones], American blues guitarist (The Things That I Used to Do) dies at 32
- Feb 8 William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services, dies at 76
- Feb 11 Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
- Feb 13 William L Axt, composer, dies at 70
- Feb 14 Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
- Feb 15 Owen W Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69
- Feb 17 Kathryn Adams, actress (Meet the Chump, 5th Avenue Girl), dies
- Feb 17 Tim Mara, American founder and administrator (NFL NY Giants), dies at 59
- Feb 18 Alfred Alessandrescu, composer, dies at 65
- Feb 18 Eric Zeisl, Austrian American composer, dies at 53
- Feb 18 Jaroslav Kvapil, composer, dies at 66
- Feb 20 Ray McDonald, dancer, dies of barbituate overdose at 38
- Feb 20 Laurence Housman, English author and playwright (Victoria Regina), dies at 93
- Feb 22 Helen Parrish, American actress (Hour Glass, Three Smart Girls Grow Up), dies of cancer at 35
- Feb 28 Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70