Events in History
- Feb 8 Ivory Coast wins the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations football championship
- Feb 11 Francesco Schettino, Captain of the Costa Concordia that ran aground 2012, is convicted of manslaughter in Grosseto and sentenced to 16 years in jail
- Feb 27 Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow
Deaths in History
- Feb 1 Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, British engineer, politician and CEO of the Equal Opportunities Commission, dies at 91
- Feb 3 Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian (Winston Churchill biography), dies at 78
- Feb 6 André Brink, South African writer (Kennis van die aand - 1st Afrikaans book banned), dies at 79
- Feb 7 Joseph M. Gaydos, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania), dies at 88
- Feb 7 Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, English publisher and multi-millionaire (St Ives Group), dies of a heart attack at 84
- Feb 12 David Carr, American journalist (New York Times), dies of cancer at 58
- Feb 14 Louis Jourdan [Louis Robert Gendre], French actor (The Paradine Case, Count Dracula, Gigi, Octopussy), dies at 93
- Feb 14 Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (Ferrero SpA) created Nutella, dies at 89
- Feb 14 Philip Levine, American poet (1995 Pulitzer prize), dies at 87
- Feb 16 Robert Wade-Gery, British diplomat (High Commissioner to India 1982–87), dies at 85
- Feb 21 Daniel Topolski, British writer and rowing coach, dies at 69
- Feb 26 Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-American activist and blogger, killed by assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh at 42
- Feb 26 Theodore Hesburgh, president (University of Notre Dame), dies at 97
- Feb 27 Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician, dies at 55, after being shot four times in Moscow
- Feb 27 Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest, author and civil rights activist, dies at 91
- Feb 28 Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (Memed, My Hawk), dies at 91
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