- Feb 1 Mongo Santamaria, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, dies at 85
- Feb 1 Nancy Whiskey [Anne Wilson], Scottish folk singer and guitarist ("Freight Train"), dies at 67
- Feb 2 Lou Harrison, American composer (La Koro Sutro), dies of a heart attack at 85
- Feb 4 Jerome Hines [Heinz], American operatic bass (I am The Way), dies at 81
- Feb 5 Charlie Biddle, American-Canadian jazz double bassist, and music promoter, dies at 76
- Feb 9 (Reuben) "Ruby" Braff, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist, dies of heart failure while suffering from emphysema at 73
- Feb 19 Johnny Paycheck [Donald Lytle], American country singer ("ake This Job and Shove It"), dies after contracting emphysema and asthma at 64
- Feb 20 Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White), dies in The Station nightclub fire at 31
- Feb 23 Howard "Howie" Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, 1982-2002), dies from an overdose at 47
- Feb 24 Walter Scharf, American film composer (Jerry Lewis movies; The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), dies of heart failure at 92
- Feb 26 Ivan Marinov, Bulgarian orchestral and opera conductor, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 74
- Feb 27 John Lanchbery, British-Australian composer and conductor (Royal Ballet, 1959-72; Australian Ballet, 1972-77; American Ballet Theatre, 1978-80), dies at 79
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