- Feb 3 Werner Bock, writer, dies
- Feb 5 Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71
- Feb 7 Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow
- Feb 7 Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
- Feb 10 Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter and graphic artist, dies at 83
- Feb 15 Vladimir Sokoloff, Russian actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72
- Feb 17 Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85
- Feb 17 Joseph Kearns, actor (George-Dennis the Menace), dies at 55
- Feb 19 Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77
- Feb 19 Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)
- Feb 20 Halliwell Hobbes, British actor (Gaslight, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 84
- Feb 25 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81
- Feb 26 Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer, dies at 83
- Feb 27 Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
- Feb 28 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70