Buddy Holly (1936-1959)
Feb 3 American rock and roll musician and songwriter ("Peggy Sue"; "That'll Be the Day"; "Words Of Love"), dies in a plane crash at 22 [1]
- Feb 3 Ritchie Valens [Valenzuela], American rock singer ("Donna"; "La Bamba"), dies in plane crash at 17
- Feb 3 The Big Bopper [Jiles Perry Richardson], American radio disc jockey, singer and songwriter (Chantilly Lace; White Lightning), dies in plane crash at 28
- Feb 5 Curt Sachs, German musicologist, dies at 77
- Feb 7 Guitar Slim [Eddie Jones], American blues guitarist (The Things That I Used to Do), dies at 32
- Feb 12 George Antheil, American pianist, avant garde composer (Airplane Sonata; Ballet Mécanique), and inventor, dies at 58
- Feb 13 William Axt, American film scores composer (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 70
- Feb 14 Warren "Baby" Dodds, American jazz drummer, dies at 60
- Feb 18 Alfred Alessandrescu, Romanian composer, dies at 65
- Feb 18 Eric Zeisl, Austrian-American composer (Requiem Ebraico), dies of a heart attack at 53
- Feb 18 Jaroslav Kvapil, Czech composer, dies at 66
- Feb 20 Ray McDonald, American stage and screen tap dancer, dies choking on food at 38
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