- Feb 1 Barış Manço, Turkish rock guitarist, singer-songwriter (Kurtalan Ekspres - "Arkadaşım Eşek (My Friend the Donkey"), and television producer (From 7 to 77), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Feb 2 David McComb, Australian singer-songwriter, and guitarist (The Triffids, 1976-89; The Blackeyed Susans, 1989–93), dies after unsuccessful heart transplant at 38
- Feb 3 Gwen Guthrie, American singer ("Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent"), dies of cancer at 48
- Feb 7 Robert "Bobby" Troup, American jazz pianist and actor (Emergency, Acapulco), dies of a heart attack at 80
- Feb 11 Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist (Charlie Mingus), saxophonist, drummer, composer, arranger, and educator, dies from an unsolved gunshot at 76
- Feb 14 Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey), dies at 65
- Feb 15 Big L [Lamont Coleman], American rapper (Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous), murdered at 24 after being shot 9 times in the face and chest in a drive-by shooting
- Feb 15 Jan Masseus, Dutch composer, dies at 86
- Feb 16 Betty Roché [Mary Elizabeth Roach], American jazz singer (Duke Ellington - "Take The 'A' Train"), dies at 81
- Feb 16 Björn Afzelius, Swedish rock and progg singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hoola Bandoola Band), dies of cancer at 52
- Feb 16 Johan Kvandal, Norwegian composer, organist, and music critic, dies at 79
- Feb 16 Necil Kazım Akses, Turkish classical composer, dies at 90
- Feb 20 Howard Boatwright, American composer and violinist, dies at 80
- Feb 23 Ruth Gipps, British prolific conductor and composer, dies of cancer at 78
- Feb 27 Horace Tapscott, American jazz pianist and composer (Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, 1961-98), dies at 64
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