Editing 1979 (section)

=== February ===
[[File:Sid Vicious 1978 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Sid Vicious]]]]
* [[February 1]]
** [[William H. Brockman Jr.]], United States Navy admiral (b. [[1904]])
** [[Abdi İpekçi]], Turkish journalist and human rights activist (b. [[1929]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Sid Vicious]], English musician (b. [[1957]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Issa Pliyev]], Soviet general (b. [[1903]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Josef Mengele]], German officer and physician (b. [[1911]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Dennis Gabor]], Hungarian-born British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dennis-Gabor Dennis Gabor British engineer]</ref>
* [[February 10]] 
** [[Edvard Kardelj]], Slovene general, economist, and politician, 2nd [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia)|Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia]] (b. [[1910]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hafLHZgZtt4C&pg=PA710|year=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-4058-4|pages=710}}</ref>
** [[Karl von Eberstein]], German politician (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Jean Renoir]], French film director and actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Reginald Maudling]], British politician (b. [[1917]])
* [[February 16]] – [[William Gargan]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Nereo Rocco]], Italian footballer and manager (b. [[1912]])
* [[February 23]] – [[W. A. C. Bennett]], Canadian politician, premier of British Columbia (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-andrew-cecil-bennett W.A.C. Bennett]</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Henrich Focke]], German aviation pioneer (b. [[1890]])