- 1803 Marie Dumesnil, French actress (Iphigénie en Aulide), dies at 90
- 1936 Max Schreck, German actor (Count Orlok-Nosferatu), dies of a heart attack at 56
- 1958 Thurston Hall, American actor (Roaming Lady, In Society), dies at 75
- 1962 Halliwell Hobbes, British actor (Gaslight, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 84
- 1965 Fred Immler, German actor (Zapata's Gang, Madame DuBarry), dies at 85
- 1968 Anthony Asquith, British film director (Court Martial), dies at 65
- 1969 Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West), dies of heart attack at 66
- 1972 Walter Winchell, writer/actor (Dondi, Love & Hisses), dies at 74
- 1973 Maurice Dallimore, British actor (The Collector, Me and My Girl), dies from Laennec's cirrhosis at 60
- 1975 Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring), dies at 88
- 1975 Robert Strauss, American actor (Stalag 17, The Seven Year Itch), dies from a stroke at 61
- 1983 Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33
- 1992 Dick York, American actor (Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind), dies of emphysema at 63
- 1992 Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66
- 1996 Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69
- 1999 Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
- 2001 Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2005 Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
- 2005 John Raitt, American actor and singer (Chevy Show, Pajama Game), dies rom complications due of pneumonia at 88
- 2006 Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (ABC), dies at 86
- 2007 Mike Awesome, Pro Wrestler (b. 1965)
- 2007 Derek Waring [Barton-Chapple], British actor (Z-Cars, Barnacle Bill, Arthur-Heart of the Country), dies at 79
- 2008 Emily Perry, English Actress (b. 1907)
February in History
Buried at Sea: The Casket That Carried JFK
John F. Kennedy's aides struggling to load the casket containing the slain President aboard Air Force One is an enduring image. But what happened to the casket?
February 18, 1966
Final Deadly Performance of a Twisted Actor
From a celebrated family of actors came a young man with a twisted mind whose last performance involved the death of a president.
February 20, 1817
Wonder of Woolworths Begins its Meteoric Rise
It was a simple idea: opening a store where nothing cost more than five cents. The idea caught on so quickly that Woolworth’s became a retail phenomenon.
February 22, 1878
The Man Who Re-wrote 'Offensive' Shakespeare
Thomas Bowdler, the man who re-wrote Shakespeare to remove the "offensive" bits, died on this day and added a new word – bowdlerise – to the language.
February 24, 1825