| 15481 | February 8 | Death | 1623 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (b. 1546) |
| 15482 | February 8 | Death | 1696 – Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666) |
| 15483 | February 8 | Death | 1709 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1658) |
| 15484 | February 8 | Death | 1725 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (b. 1672) |
| 15485 | February 8 | Death | 1749 – Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682) |
| 15486 | February 8 | Death | 1750 – Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet (b. 1685) |
| 15487 | February 8 | Death | 1768 – George Dance the Elder, English architect, designed St Leonard's and St Botolph's Aldgate (b. 1695) |
| 15488 | February 8 | Death | 1772 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (b. 1719) |
| 15489 | February 8 | Death | 1847 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician, 1st Lord Mayor of Marburg (b. 1781) |
| 15490 | February 8 | Death | 1849 – François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (b. 1781) |
| 15491 | February 8 | Death | 1849 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer (b. 1800) |
| 15492 | February 8 | Death | 1856 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and academic (b. 1773) |
| 15493 | February 8 | Death | 1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854) |
| 15494 | February 8 | Death | 1910 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854) |
| 15495 | February 8 | Death | 1915 – François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838) |
| 15496 | February 8 | Death | 1921 – George Formby Snr, English actor and singer (b. 1876) |
| 15497 | February 8 | Death | 1921 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842) |
| 15498 | February 8 | Death | 1924 – Gee Jon, Chinese-American criminal (b. 1895) |
| 15499 | February 8 | Death | 1932 – Mad Dog Coll, Irish-American mob boss (b. 1908) |
| 15500 | February 8 | Death | 1932 – Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867) |
| 15501 | February 8 | Death | 1935 – Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864) |
| 15502 | February 8 | Death | 1936 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860) |
| 15503 | February 8 | Death | 1945 – Italo Santelli, Italian fencer (b. 1866) |
| 15504 | February 8 | Death | 1956 – Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (b. 1862) |
| 15505 | February 8 | Death | 1957 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) |
| 15506 | February 8 | Death | 1957 – John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1903) |
| 15507 | February 8 | Death | 1960 – J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911) |
| 15508 | February 8 | Death | 1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880) |
| 15509 | February 8 | Death | 1963 – George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (b. 1908) |
| 15510 | February 8 | Death | 1964 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (b. 1888) |