- Feb 1 Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (Touch of Class; Mozambique), dies at 76
- Feb 2 Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
- Feb 9 Vicente Sardinero, Spanish operatic lyric baritone, dies at 65
- Feb 10 Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer and songwriter, dies at 65
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Feb 13 American country singer and guitarist ("I'm A Ramblin' Man"), dies of diabetic complications at 64
- Feb 14 Mick Tucker, English rock drummer (Sweet - "Ballroom Blitz"), dies of leukemia at 54
- Feb 16 Billy Ward, American singer and songwriter (Billy Ward and his Dominoes), dies at 80
- Feb 18 Nathan Perelman, Soviet Russian pianist and pedagogue, dies at 95
- Feb 24 Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
- Feb 24 Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer and pianist, (born about 1893)
- Feb 26 Oskar Sala, German physicist, composer, electronic music pioneer, and Trautonium (an early synthesizer) player, dies at 91
- Feb 28 Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer, dies at 82
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