- Feb 3 Radames Gnattali, Brazilian composer and conductor (Rádio Nacional), dies at 82
- Feb 10 Don Patterson, American jazz organist (Hip Cake Walk; Holiday Soul), dies at 51
- Feb 10 Paolo Renosto, Italian composer, dies at 52
- Feb 13 John Curulewski, American rock guitarist and singer (Styx), dies of a brain aneurysm at 37
- Feb 14 Frederick Loewe [Friedrich Löwe], Austrian-American musical theater composer (with Alan Jay Lerner: My Fair Lady; Camelot; Brigadoon), dies at 86
- Feb 16 Charles Delaunay, French writer, magazine publisher (Le Jazz Hot), jazz musiclogist (Hot Discography), record label founder, and music promoter, dies at 77
- Feb 18 Joe Loco [José Esteves, Jr], American Latin jazz pianist and arranger, dies from complications of diabetes at 67
- Feb 24 Memphis Slim [John Len Chatman], American blues musician ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), dies at 72
- Feb 24 Uno "Miff" Görling, Swedish jazz trombonist, arranger, bandleader, and composer, dies at 78
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