- Feb 1 Desmond Carrington, British radio host (The Music Goes Round), dies at 90
- Feb 4 Gervase de Peyer, British clarinetist, dies at 89
- Feb 4 Steve Lang, Canadian rock bassist (April Wine, 1976-84 - "Just Between You And Me"), dies at 67
- Feb 7 Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist, known as "The Fiddling Viking" (The Swe-Danes), dies at 100
- Feb 8 Nicolai Gedda, Swedish opera tenor (Opera Two to Six), dies at 91
- Feb 11 Harvey Lichtenstein, American head of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, dies at 87
- Feb 12 Al Jarreau, American jazz singer (Moonlighting), dies at 76
- Feb 13 Michael Naura, German jazz pianist, radio broadcaster, editor and anti-nuclear proliferation activist, dies at 82
- Feb 17 Alan Aldridge, British artist, graphic designer and illustrator whose artwork was used in record covers for The Beatles and The Who, dies at 78
- Feb 19 Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (11th House), dies at 73
- Feb 21 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Polish-American conductor (Minnesota Orchestra, 1960-79) and composer (Passacaglia Immaginaria), dies at 93
- Feb 26 Dimiter Khristov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 83
- Feb 26 James E. Sellars, American composer, dies at 76
- Feb 26 Robert Allworth, Australian composer (A Different Time, A Different Place), dies at 74
- Feb 27 Jórunn Viðar, Icelandic pianist and composer, dies at 98
- Feb 28 Claude Rene Georges Pascal, French composer, dies at 96
- Feb 28 Leoncjusz Ciuciura, Polish classical composer (Spirals), dies at 86 [1] [2]
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