- Feb 6 Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist (Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman), dies at 58
- Feb 12 Elizabeth "Betty" Garrett, American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (All in the Family), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 91
- Feb 12 Peter Alexander [Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer], Austrian actor and singer (Who Wants to Sleep?), dies at 84
- Feb 14 George Shearing, British-American blind jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), dies at 91
- Feb 18 Carlos Veerhoff, Argentine-born German composer, dies at 84
- Feb 20 Terry Clements, American guitarist (Gordon Lightfoot), dies of complications from a stroke at 63
- Feb 23 Jack Gottlieb, American composer, writer and editor, dies at 80
- Feb 25 Rick Coonce, American rock drummer (Grass Roots), dies at 64
- Feb 26 Eugene Fodor, American classical violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award), dies from cirrhosis at 60
- Feb 27 Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican-American blues guitarist, singer and harmonica player (Have Mercy On Me), dies in a car accident at 87
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