- Feb 1 John Littlejohn [Funchess], American electric blues slide guitarist ("So-Called Friends"), dies of renal failure at 62
- Feb 2 John Littlejohn, American blues guitarist and singer, dies at 62
- Feb 2 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith (née Ford), American gospel singer, evangelist, and folk artist, dies at 89
- Feb 2 Zilner Randolph, American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and music educator, dies at 95
- Feb 5 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, American blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59
- Feb 6 Ignace Strasfogel, Polish-American pianist, conductor, composer, dies at 84
- Feb 6 Norman Del Mar, British conductor and writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74
- Feb 7 Witold Lutosławski, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (Musique funèbre; Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux), dies of cancer at 81
- Feb 8 Raymond Scott, American composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
- Feb 9 Jarmila Novotná, Czech-American soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1940-56), and actress (The Search), dies at 86
- Feb 9 Louis Kaufman, American violinist and conductor (Gone With The Wind), dies at 88
- Feb 14 Gary "BB" Coleman, American blues singer, guitarist and producer, dies at 47
- Feb 15 George "Tiger" Haynes, American jazz guitarist (The Three Flames), and stage and screen actor (The Wiz; In the Heat of the Night), dies at 79
- Feb 19 Vittorio Rieti, Jewish Italian-American composer, dies at 96
- Feb 22 "Papa" John Creach, American blues violinist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane), dies of heart failure at 76
Dinah Shore (1917-1994)
Feb 24 American singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet), actress and TV personality (Dinah Shore Show; Nabisco DS Championship), dies of ovarian cancer at 76
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