- Feb 1 Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian pianist, librettist, and composer (Amahl & Night Visitors), and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 95
- Feb 1 Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer, dies at 70
- Feb 1 Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic, dies of cancer at 80
- Feb 2 Billy Henderson, American pop and R&B singer (The Spinners, 1954-2004 - "The Rubberband Man"), dies from complications of diabetes at 67
- Feb 2 Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
- Feb 2 Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of Motown's house band - The Funk Brothers (1959-64), dies at 79
- Feb 3 Pedro Knight, Cuban-American trumpeter, husband and manager of legendary singer Celia Cruz, dies from complications of diabetes at 85
- Feb 4 Barbara McNair, American singer ("Till There Was You") and actress (They Call Me MR. Tibbs), dies of throat cancer at 72
- Feb 4 Colin Romoff, American orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show), dies at 82
- Feb 6 Frankie Laine [Francesco Paolo LoVecchio], American singer ("Jezebel"; "Rawhide"; "Blazing Saddles"), songwriter ("We'll Be Together Again"), and actor (Bring Your Smile Along), dies of heart failure at 93
- Feb 7 Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz and session drummer, and bandleader, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 82
- Feb 9 Louis Ballard [Honganózhe], Native American composer and educator (The Four Moons), dies at 75
- Feb 12 Eldee Young, American jazz upright bassist (Ramsey Lewis Trio, 1956-66 'The In Crowd"; Young-Holt Unlimited - "Soulful Strut"), dies of a heart attack at 71
- Feb 12 Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1905)
- Feb 14 Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
- Feb 15 Ray Evans, American lyricist ("To Each His Own"; "Mona Lisa"; "Silver Bells"; "Mister Ed"), dies at 92
- Feb 17 Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born Canadian musician, producer and songwriter (b. 1943)
- Feb 19 Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer, founder of National Ballet of Canada, dies at 85
- Feb 19 Janet Blair [Martha Janet Lafferty], American singer and actress (Leave it to the Girls; Smith Family), dies of pneumonia at 85
- Feb 22 Edgar Evans, Welsh tenor (Covent Garden Opera Company), dies at 94
- Feb 22 Ian Wallace, British session and touring rock and jazz drummer (King Crimson, 1971-72; Bob Dylan, 1977-78; Crimson Jazz Trio, 2005-07), dies of esophageal cancer at 60
- Feb 23 Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
- Feb 24 Leroy Jenkins, American jazz violinist, avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical composer, dies of lung cancer at 73
- Feb 25 Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer and songwriter, dies at 66
- Feb 27 Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer and bandleader, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 82
- Feb 28 Billy Thorpe, British-Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs - "I Told The Brook", "Mashed Potato"; solo - "Children of the Sun"), dies of a heart attack at 60
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