- Feb 2 Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876)
- Feb 5 Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84
- Feb 6 Julian H Steward, US anthropologist (South American), dies at 70
- Feb 11 Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80
- Feb 15 Edgar Snow, American author and journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66
- Feb 15 Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73
- Feb 20 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, American-German atomic physicist (Nobel 1963), dies at 65
- Feb 21 Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (b. 1884)
- Feb 26 Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 50