- Feb 4 Bill Dudley, American College/Pro Football HOF halfback (Uni of Virginia; NFL MVP 1946; 4×First-team All-Pro; NFL rushing leader 1942, 46; Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins), dies at 88
- Feb 10 Carl Braun, American basketball player (NY Knicks), dies at 82
- Feb 10 Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1925)
- Feb 12 Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger, dies in a training run for the Winter Olympics at 21
- Feb 14 Dick Francis, British jockey and detective writer (Whip Hand, High Stakes), dies at 89
- Feb 16 Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong soccer striker (32 caps; South China AA, Seiko SA) and actor, dies from nasopharyngeal carcinoma at 53
- Feb 22 Nelly Adamson Landry, French tennis player (French C'ships 1948), dies at 93
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