Bertrand Russell
Feb 2 Bertrand Russell, English mathematician and philosopher (Nobel 1950), dies at 97
Bertrand Russell
- Feb 2 Jaroslav Vogel, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 76
- Feb 2 Lawrence Gray, American actor, dies at 71
- Feb 2 Dave Franklin, American composer (The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down), dies at 74
- Feb 5 Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- Feb 6 Roscoe Karns, American actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78
- Feb 11 Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87
- Feb 12 André Souris, Belgian composer, dies at 79
- Feb 13 Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (28 Tests for England, ct 60 stp 12), dies
- Feb 15 Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, dies at 87
- Feb 17 Alfred Newman, US composer, dies at 69
- Feb 17 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Jewish novelist (Nobel 1966), dies at 81
- Feb 18 Desideer Stracke, Flemish jesuit and literature historian, dies at 94
- Feb 19 Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89
- Feb 20 Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86
- Feb 20 Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist, dies at 84
- Feb 20 Café Filho, 18th Brazilian President (1954-1955) dies aged 71
- Feb 23 Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
- Feb 24 Conrad Nagel, American actor (All That Heaven Allows, Celebrity Time), dies at 72
- Feb 25 Mark Rothko [Marcus Rothkovich], American abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66
- Feb 26 Ethel Leginska, composer, dies at 83
- Feb 27 Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat/writer, dies
- Feb 27 Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)