| 17761 | February 14 | Death | 1929 – Peter Gusenberg, American gangster (b. 1889) |
| 17762 | February 14 | Death | 1942 – Adnan bin Saidi, Malayan lieutenant (b. 1915) |
| 17763 | February 14 | Death | 1943 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (b. 1899) |
| 17764 | February 14 | Death | 1943 – David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician, physicist and philosopher(b. 1862) |
| 17765 | February 14 | Death | 1948 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1876) |
| 17766 | February 14 | Death | 1949 – Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi politician (b. 1901) |
| 17767 | February 14 | Death | 1950 – Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and engineer (b. 1905) |
| 17768 | February 14 | Death | 1952 – Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896) |
| 17769 | February 14 | Death | 1958 – Abdur Rab Nishtar, Pakistani politician, 2nd Governor of Punjab (b. 1899) |
| 17770 | February 14 | Death | 1959 – Baby Dodds, American drummer (b. 1898) |
| 17771 | February 14 | Death | 1967 – Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884) |
| 17772 | February 14 | Death | 1969 – Vito Genovese, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1897) |
| 17773 | February 14 | Death | 1970 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (b. 1880) |
| 17774 | February 14 | Death | 1974 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1903) |
| 17775 | February 14 | Death | 1975 – Julian Huxley, English biologist and eugenicist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1887) |
| 17776 | February 14 | Death | 1975 – P. G. Wodehouse, English author and poet (b. 1881) |
| 17777 | February 14 | Death | 1976 – Piero Scotti, Italian racing driver (b. 1909) |
| 17778 | February 14 | Death | 1978 – Paul Governali, American football player and coach (b. 1921) |
| 17779 | February 14 | Death | 1979 – Adolph Dubs, American lieutenant and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (b. 1920) |
| 17780 | February 14 | Death | 1980 – Rudra Baruah, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1926) |
| 17781 | February 14 | Death | 1983 – Lina Radke, German runner and coach (b. 1903) |
| 17782 | February 14 | Death | 1986 – Edmund Rubbra, English composer and conductor (b. 1901) |
| 17783 | February 14 | Death | 1987 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1904) |
| 17784 | February 14 | Death | 1988 – Frederick Loewe, German-American composer (b. 1901) |
| 17785 | February 14 | Death | 1989 – James Bond, American ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1900) |
| 17786 | February 14 | Death | 1989 – Vincent Crane, English pianist (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster) (b. 1943) |
| 17787 | February 14 | Death | 1990 – Tony Holiday, German singer-songwriter (b. 1951) |
| 17788 | February 14 | Death | 1992 – Helen Vela, Filipino journalist and actress (b. 1946) |
| 17789 | February 14 | Death | 1994 – Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (b. 1936) |
| 17790 | February 14 | Death | 1994 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (b. 1932) |