2/27
- William F. Buckley, Jr., 82, American author, conservative
commentator, and founder of National Review magazine.
- Boyd Coddington, 63, American owner of hot rod shop, star of
American Hot Rod on TLC.
- Myron Cope, 79, American radio broadcaster for the Pittsburgh
Steelers, inventor of the "Terrible Towel".
- David Edwards, 20, American football player paralyzed during a
game in 2003, pneumonia.
- W.C. Heinz, 93, American sportswriter.

2/26
- Artur Eizen, 80, Russian opera singer (Bolshoi Theatre),
People's Artist of the USSR.
- Dick Fletcher, 65, American meteorologist at WTSP Tampa Bay, stroke.
- Buddy Miles, 60, American drummer (Band of Gypsys, Electric Flag),
congestive heart failure.

2/25
- Charles Chan, 93, Chinese father of actor Jackie Chan, prostate cancer.
- Steve "Static" Garrett, 32, performer/producer/songwriter, brain
aneurysm.
- Genoa Keawe, 89, American performer of Hawaiian music.
- Alain Ledesma, 30, Mexican telenovela actor, stomach cancer.
- Vladimir Troshin, 81, Russian actor and singer ("Moscow Nights").

2/24
- Larry Norman, 60, American Christian rock singer/songwriter.
- Laird Stabler, 77, American former Attorney General of Delaware, oral
cancer.
- Pearl Witherington, 93, British World War II secret service agent.

2/23
- Douglas Fraser, 91, American former president of the United
Auto Workers, emphysema.

2/22
- Richard Baer, 79, American TV scriptwriter, heart attack.
- Johnnie Carr, 97, American civil rights leader.
- Eagle Day, 75, American football player, after short illness.
- Margaret Koy Kistler, 63, American sportswriter.
- Dennis Letts, 73, American actor.
- Stephen Marlowe, 79, American novelist (The Second Longest Night).
- Tsuneyo Toyonaga, 113, oldest living Japanese person.
- Bobby Lee Trammell, 74, American rockabilly singer, former
Arkansas Representative.
- Steve Whitaker, 53, British comic book colorist (V for Vendetta).