- Feb 2 Richard P Blackmur, American critic/publisher (Good European), dies at 61
- Feb 2 Richard Würz, German composer, and music critic, dies at 79
- Feb 4 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
- Feb 5 Irving Bacon, American actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti), dies at 71
- Feb 6 Jack Wagner, American actor (The Razor's Edge, Under Two Flags, Jive Junction), dies from a heart attack at 68
- Feb 7 Nance O'Neil, American actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90
- Feb 12 Henry Kulky [Kulakowich], American actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Love Nest), dies from a heart attack at 53
- Feb 13 Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies
- Feb 13 William Heard Kilpatrick, American mathematician and philosopher, dies at 93
- Feb 14 Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, French composer/conductor, dies at 84
Nat King Cole
Feb 15 Nat King Cole, American singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies of cancer at 49
Nat King Cole
Malcolm X
Feb 21 Malcolm X [Little], African American human rights activist and Muslim minister, assassinated in New York City at 39
Malcolm X
- Feb 22 Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
Stan Laurel
Feb 23 Stan Laurel, British comedian (Laurel & Hardy films), dies of a heart attack at 74
Stan Laurel
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Feb 26 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies from gunshot wounds at 26
Jimmie Lee Jackson
- Feb 28 Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74