Gene Kelly (1912-1996)
Feb 2 American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and film director (An American in Paris; On The Town; Singin' in the Rain), dies of a stroke at 83
- Feb 2 Minao Shibata, Japanese composer and musicologist, dies at 79
- Feb 3 Wild Jimmy Spruill, American blues guitarist, dies at 61
- Feb 5 Antonio Ruiz Soler, Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer, dies at 74
- Feb 5 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Italian opera conductor, musicologist, pianist and composer, dies at 86
- Feb 7 Tiny Winters [Frederick Gittens], English jazz bassist and singer, dies at 87
- Feb 7 [Isian Kehinde] I. K. Dairo, Nigerian Jùjú musician and academic, dies at 65
- Feb 8 Mercer Kennedy Ellington, American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer, dies at 76
- Feb 13 Daniel Womack, American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and harmonica player, dies at 91
- Feb 14 Taiguara [Chalar da Silva], Brazilian singer and songwriter, dies at 50
- Feb 15 Margaret Courtenay, Welsh actress, singer and entertainer (Royal Flash, Duet for One), dies of cancer at 72
- Feb 16 (Walter) "Brownie" McGhee, American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, dies at 80
- Feb 17 Evelyn Laye, English actress and singer (Sun Child), dies at 95
- Feb 17 Gus Hardin [Carolyn Ann Blankenship], American country singer, dies at 50
- Feb 19 Dorothy Maynor, American soprano and founder (Harlem School of Arts), dies at 85
- Feb 20 Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese classical music and film score composer (November Steps; Ran), dies of pneumonia while being treated for bladder cancer at 65
Morton Gould (1913-1996)
Feb 21 American pianist, conductor and theatrical, screen and concert composer (Pulitzer Prize, 1956 - Stringmusic), dies at 82
- Feb 23 Alan Dawson, American jazz drummer and teacher (Berklee, 1957-75), dies of leukemia at 66
- Feb 24 Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
- Feb 26 Mieczysław Weinberg [Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg], Polish-Soviet composer, dies from Crohn's disease at 77
- Feb 29 Wes Farrell, American songwriter (The Partridge Family), dies of cancer at 56
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