- Feb 5 Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- Feb 7 Abe Attell, American boxer known as "The Little Hebrew" and World Featherweight Champion (1906-12), dies at 86
- Feb 13 Herbert Strudwick, English cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 73 dismissals; Surrey CCC), dies at 90
- Feb 23 Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
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