- Feb 5 (Charles Luckyth) "Luckey" Roberts, stride pianist and composer, dies at 80-ish [various sources dispute birth year, 1887 to 1895] [1]
- Feb 7 Stuart Foster, American singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
- Feb 13 Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87
- Feb 15 Little Walter [Marion Walter Jacobs], American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player, dies as the result of a fight at 37
- Feb 16 (James) Healey Willan, British-Canadian organist, composer, and educator, dies at 87
- Feb 27 Frankie Lymon, American pop singer (The Teenagers - "Why Do Fools Fall In Love"), dies of a heroin overdose at 25
- Feb 27 Ludvik Podest, Czech composer, music journalist, and conductor dies at 46
- Feb 28 Juanita Hall (née Long), American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress and singer (South Pacific; Flower Drum Song), dies from complications of diabetes at 66 [some sources give date as Feb. 29]
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