- Feb 3 Joe Meek, English record producer and influential sound engineer (Telstar), commits suicide at 37
- Feb 11 Edmond Hall, American jazz clarinetist (Red Allen; Teddy Wilson), bandleader (Café Society Band), and composer (Profoundly Blue), dies at 65
- Feb 12 (Francis) "Muggsy" Spanier, American swing jazz and Dixieland revival cornetist and trumpeter, dies at 65
- Feb 16 (Lester) "Smiley" Burnette [Burnett], American country music performer, singer-songwriter ("Ridin' Down the Canyon (To Watch the Sun Go Down)"), and actor (Petticoat Junction - "Charlie"), dies of leukemia at 55
- Feb 18 Manuel Palau Boix, Spanish composer (Conservatory of Valencia), dies at 74
- Feb 24 Franz Waxman [Wachsmann], German-American film score composer (Rebecca; Sunset Boulevard; A Place In The Sun), dies of cancer at 60
- Feb 25 Walter "Fats" Pichon American jazz pianist, singer, and big bandleader, dies at 60
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