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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1st of February 1327 | EVENT | Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. |
| 1st of February 1411 | EVENT | The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia). |
| 1st of February 1587 | EVENT | The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island is established by the landing of Sir Walter Raleigh. This Colony would become known as the "Lost Colony" |
| 1st of February 1662 | EVENT | The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. |
| 1st of February 1709 | EVENT | Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. |
| 1st of February 1713 | EVENT | The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized. |
| 1st of February 1790 | EVENT | In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time. |
| 1st of February 1793 | EVENT | French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. |
| 1st of February 1796 | EVENT | The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York. |
| 1st of February 1814 | EVENT | Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano. |
| 1st of February 1835 | EVENT | Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. |
| 1st of February 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States. |
| 1st of February 1865 | EVENT | President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 1st of February 1884 | EVENT | The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. |
| 1st of February 1893 | EVENT | Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey. |
| 1st of February 1897 | EVENT | Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul. |
| 1st of February 1908 | EVENT | King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon. |
| 1st of February 1918 | EVENT | Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar. |
| 1st of February 1920 | EVENT | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations. |
| 1st of February 1924 | EVENT | The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR. |
| 1st of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government. |
| 1st of February 1942 | EVENT | Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States federal government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers. |
| 1st of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater. |
| 1st of February 1946 | EVENT | Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General. |
| 1st of February 1957 | EVENT | Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany |
| 1st of February 1958 | EVENT | Egypt and Syria merge to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961. |
| 1st of February 1960 | EVENT | Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. |
| 1st of February 1965 | EVENT | The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill. |
| 1st of February 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War. |
| 1st of February 1968 | EVENT | Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces. |
| 1st of February 1968 | EVENT | The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form the ill-fated Penn Central Transportation. |
| 1st of February 1972 | EVENT | Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. |
| 1st of February 1974 | EVENT | A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293. |
| 1st of February 1974 | EVENT | Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory. |
| 1st of February 1978 | EVENT | Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl. |
| 1st of February 1979 | EVENT | The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile. |
| 1st of February 1979 | EVENT | Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter. |
| 1st of February 1982 | EVENT | Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia. |
| 1st of February 1989 | EVENT | The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. |
| 1st of February 1992 | EVENT | The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case. |
| 1st of February 1993 | EVENT | Gary Bettman becomes the NHL's first commissioner |
| 1st of February 1996 | EVENT | The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress. |
| 1st of February 1998 | EVENT | Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral. |
| 1st of February 2003 | EVENT | Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. |
| 1st of February 2004 | EVENT | 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. |
| 1st of February 2004 | EVENT | Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines. |
| 1st of February 2005 | EVENT | King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'etat to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers. |
| 1st of February 2009 | EVENT | Johanna Sigur?ardottir is chosen the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay head of government in the modern world. |
| 1st of February 1261 | BIRTHDAY | Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326) |
| 1st of February 1459 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508) |
| 1st of February 1462 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516) |
| 1st of February 1552 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Coke, English jurist and Member of Parliament (d. 1634) |
| 1st of February 1635 | BIRTHDAY | Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689) |
| 1st of February 1659 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (d. 1729) |
| 1st of February 1663 | BIRTHDAY | Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, Filipino foundress of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (d. 1748) |
| 1st of February 1690 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768) |
| 1st of February 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (d. 1771) |
| 1st of February 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836) |
| 1st of February 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Campbell, Irish theologian (d. 1854) |
| 1st of February 1764 | BIRTHDAY | George Duff, Royal Navy Captain, killed in action at the Battle of Trafalgar (d.1805) |
| 1st of February 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Emanuel Frohlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865) |
| 1st of February 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Littre, French lexicographer (d. 1881) |
| 1st of February 1820 | BIRTHDAY | George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897) |
| 1st of February 1841 | BIRTHDAY | William Davenport, American magician (d. 1877) |
| 1st of February 1844 | BIRTHDAY | G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (d. 1924) |
| 1st of February 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908) |
| 1st of February 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Herbert, Irish composer (d. 1924) |
| 1st of February 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949) |
| 1st of February 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927) |
| 1st of February 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947) |
| 1st of February 1873 | BIRTHDAY | John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901) |
| 1st of February 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929) |
| 1st of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Hodza, Slovak politician (d. 1944) |
| 1st of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973) |
| 1st of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937) |
| 1st of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (d. 1949) |
| 1st of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947) |
| 1st of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955) |
| 1st of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973) |
| 1st of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Conn Smythe, Canadian builder of the National Hockey League (d. 1980) |
| 1st of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Robins, (aka Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) British romance novelist (d. 1985) |
| 1st of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Leila Denmark, American pediatrician and medical researcher who co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine and supercentenarian. |
| 1st of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Buckles, last surviving American veteran of World War I (d. 2011) |
| 1st of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960) |
| 1st of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (d. 1947) |
| 1st of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Langston Hughes American writer (d. 1967) |
| 1st of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | S. J. Perelman, American humorist (d. 1979) |
| 1st of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio G. Segre, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1989) |
| 1st of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Hildegarde, American actress and singer (d. 2005) |
| 1st of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian Chief Justice (d. 1993) |
| 1st of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Gunter Eich, German lyricist (d. 1972) |
| 1st of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (d. 1993) |
| 1st of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | George Pal, Hungarian-born director and producer (d. 1980) |
| 1st of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | George Beverly Shea, Canadian singer |
| 1st of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan politician (d. 2009) |
| 1st of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000) |
| 1st of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player (d. 1944) |
| 1st of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006) |
| 1st of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sallis, English actor |
| 1st of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004) |
| 1st of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hooker, American writer (d. 1997) |
| 1st of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Weider, Canadian businessman and author (d. 2008) |
| 1st of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Devine, United States Federal Judge (d. 1999) |
| 1st of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008) |
| 1st of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Whitman, American actor |
| 1st of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Beaulieu, Canadian politician (d. 1998) |
| 1st of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Shahabuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh |
| 1st of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Hossain Mohammad Ershad, Bangladeshi politician |
| 1st of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh |
| 1st of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation (d. 2007) |
| 1st of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Ramberg, Swedish law professor, and arbitration court judge |
| 1st of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Shane, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) |
| 1st of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Azie Taylor Morton, American civil servant, and 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003) |
| 1st of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Garrett Morris, American comedian |
| 1st of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) |
| 1st of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Don Everly, American musician (Everly Brothers) |
| 1st of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor |
| 1st of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Niculita Secrieriu, Romanian painter (d. 2002) |
| 1st of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist |
| 1st of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Francois, French singer (d. 1978) |
| 1st of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gillmor, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 1st of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Sample, American jazz pianist |
| 1st of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996) |
| 1st of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Herve Filion, Canadian harness racer |
| 1st of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Dall, German television host |
| 1st of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Spinelli, children's author |
| 1st of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Muna Wassef, Syrian/Arab actress and United Nations Goodwill ambassador. |
| 1st of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer |
| 1st of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Enzi, American politician, senior senator from Wyoming |
| 1st of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Burkhard Ziese, German football manager (d. 2010) |
| 1st of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Joyal, Canadian politician |
| 1st of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Welz, German footballer |
| 1st of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Clark, Motown Soul singer |
| 1st of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Sladen, English Actress (d. 2011). |
| 1st of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975) |
| 1st of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Normie Rowe, Australian singer |
| 1st of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983) |
| 1st of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rick James, American musician and composer (d. 2004) |
| 1st of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer |
| 1st of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Landreth, American guitarist and songwriter |
| 1st of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jeno Jando, Hungarian pianist |
| 1st of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Batson, English former footballer |
| 1st of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Mumy, American actor and musician |
| 1st of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Dukowski, American musician (Black Flag) |
| 1st of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Camacho, baseball player |
| 1st of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Brahmanandam, Indian film actor |
| 1st of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Exene Cervenka, American musician |
| 1st of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 1st of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Renae Jacobs, American voice actress |
| 1st of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Luther Blissett, English footballer |
| 1st of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ryo Horikawa, Japanese voice actor |
| 1st of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Shroff, Indian actor |
| 1st of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Tani, NASA astronaut |
| 1st of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Volker Fried, German field hockey player |
| 1st of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2004) |
| 1st of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese guitarist |
| 1st of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist |
| 1st of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Linus Roache, English actor |
| 1st of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Pelchat, Canadian singer |
| 1st of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sherilyn Fenn, American actress |
| 1st of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 1st of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Stephanie of Monaco |
| 1st of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Edmondson, Playboy Playmate |
| 1st of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Vasilis Dimitriadis, Greek footballer |
| 1st of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Akers, American soccer player |
| 1st of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Lee, English footballer |
| 1st of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Patle Shishupal Natthu, Indian politician |
| 1st of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Meg Cabot, American author |
| 1st of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and actress |
| 1st of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kent Mercker, American baseball player |
| 1st of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Pauly Shore, American comedian |
| 1st of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Recchi, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer |
| 1st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Krause, American actor |
| 1st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Wilson, American musician (Weezer) |
| 1st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Redman, American musician |
| 1st of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Yasuyuki Kazama, Japanese racing driver |
| 1st of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Malik Sealy, American basketball player (d. 2000) |
| 1st of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Michael C. Hall, American actor |
| 1st of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Kelly, American porn actress |
| 1st of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ajay Jadeja, Former Indian cricketer |
| 1st of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Welty, American musician |
| 1st of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Zlatko Zahovic, Slovenian footballer |
| 1st of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshi DeHerrera, American TV personality |
| 1st of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kami (musician), drummer of Japanese visual kei band Malice Mizer (d. 1999) |
| 1st of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew DeClercq, American basketball player |
| 1st of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Landman, Experimental musical instrument builder, musician and comic book artist |
| 1st of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Makiko Ohmoto, Japanese voice actress |
| 1st of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | David Meca, Spanish long distance swimmer |
| 1st of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Walter McCarty, American basketball player |
| 1st of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Katerina Thanou, Greek sprinter |
| 1st of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Big Boi, American musician (Outkast) |
| 1st of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Ivey, American poker player |
| 1st of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Kilbane, Irish footballer |
| 1st of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Traylor, American basketball player |
| 1st of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Domenick Davies, Welsh-born German rugby player |
| 1st of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Harding, Australian singer (Hi-5) |
| 1st of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player |
| 1st of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rachelle LeFevre, Canadian actress |
| 1st of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Valentin Elizalde, Mexican Singer (d. 2006) |
| 1st of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer |
| 1st of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Hector Luna, Dominican Republic baseball player |
| 1st of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Moises Munoz, Mexican footballer |
| 1st of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2005) |
| 1st of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Austin, British racing driver |
| 1st of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Smith, South African cricketer |
| 1st of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Lama, Angolan footballer |
| 1st of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby player |
| 1st of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer |
| 1st of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgian cyclist |
| 1st of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Martin, American basketball player |
| 1st of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew VanWyngarden, musician (MGMT) |
| 1st of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer |
| 1st of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | John Booth, Guitarist/songwriter |
| 1st of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Thompson Young, American actor |
| 1st of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher |
| 1st of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model |
| 1st of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer |
| 1st of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Conrad, American reality TV personality |
| 1st of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Montario Hardesty, American football player |
| 1st of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Morris, American actress and dancer |
| 1st of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Wu Jingyu, Chinese taekwondo practitioner |
| 1st of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer |
| 1st of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Healey, British computer games developer |
| 1st of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Marling, English singer-songwriter |
| 1st of February 1248 | DEATH | Henry II, Duke of Brabant (Born 1207) |
| 1st of February 1328 | DEATH | King Charles IV of France (Born 1294) |
| 1st of February 1542 | DEATH | Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (Born 1480) |
| 1st of February 1563 | DEATH | Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever) (Born 1559) |
| 1st of February 1590 | DEATH | Lawrence Humphrey,English clergyman and educator |
| 1st of February 1691 | DEATH | Pope Alexander VIII (Born 1610) |
| 1st of February 1718 | DEATH | Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (Born 1660) |
| 1st of February 1733 | DEATH | King Augustus II of Poland (Born 1670) |
| 1st of February 1734 | DEATH | John Floyer, English physician and writer (Born 1649) |
| 1st of February 1743 | DEATH | Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (Born 1657) |
| 1st of February 1761 | DEATH | Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (Born 1682) |
| 1st of February 1768 | DEATH | Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (Born 1685) |
| 1st of February 1793 | DEATH | William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (Born 1717) |
| 1st of February 1832 | DEATH | Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician (Born 1777) |
| 1st of February 1850 | DEATH | Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (Born 1846) |
| 1st of February 1851 | DEATH | Mary Shelley, English author (Born 1797) |
| 1st of February 1893 | DEATH | George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (Born 1824) |
| 1st of February 1897 | DEATH | Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (Born 1826) |
| 1st of February 1903 | DEATH | George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (Born 1819) |
| 1st of February 1908 | DEATH | King Carlos I of Portugal (Born 1863) |
| 1st of February 1922 | DEATH | William Desmond Taylor, American silent film actor and director; his murder remains unsolved. (Born 1872) |
| 1st of February 1928 | DEATH | Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (Born 1869) |
| 1st of February 1936 | DEATH | Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1878) |
| 1st of February 1940 | DEATH | Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (Born 1888) |
| 1st of February 1944 | DEATH | Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (Born 1872) |
| 1st of February 1945 | DEATH | Prince Kiril of Bulgaria, prince of Bulgaria (Born 1895) |
| 1st of February 1957 | DEATH | Friedrich Paulus, German general (Born 1890) |
| 1st of February 1958 | DEATH | Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1888) |
| 1st of February 1959 | DEATH | Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (Born 1873) |
| 1st of February 1963 | DEATH | Fleetwood Lindley, the last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face (Born 1888) |
| 1st of February 1966 | DEATH | Hedda Hopper, American film actress and gossip columnist (Born 1885) |
| 1st of February 1966 | DEATH | Buster Keaton, American actor (Born 1895) |
| 1st of February 1968 | DEATH | Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist (Born 1891) |
| 1st of February 1970 | DEATH | Alfred Renyi, Hungarian mathematician (Born 1921) |
| 1st of February 1976 | DEATH | Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1901) |
| 1st of February 1976 | DEATH | George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1878) |
| 1st of February 1980 | DEATH | Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (Born 1930) |
| 1st of February 1981 | DEATH | Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aircraft manufacturer (Born 1892) |
| 1st of February 1981 | DEATH | Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (Born 1908) |
| 1st of February 1986 | DEATH | Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1902) |
| 1st of February 1987 | DEATH | Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (Born 1900) |
| 1st of February 1988 | DEATH | Heather O'Rourke, American actress (Born 1975) |
| 1st of February 1989 | DEATH | Elaine de Kooning, American artist (Born 1918) |
| 1st of February 1991 | DEATH | Carol Dempster, American actress (Born 1901) |
| 1st of February 1991 | DEATH | Phil Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Born 1914) |
| 1st of February 1995 | DEATH | Richey James Edwards, lyricist and rhythm guitarist of Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers (presumed dead) (Born 1967) |
| 1st of February 1997 | DEATH | Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (Born 1916) |
| 1st of February 1999 | DEATH | Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (Born 1907) |
| 1st of February 2001 | DEATH | Andre D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (Born 1929) |
| 1st of February 2002 | DEATH | Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (Born 1925) |
| 1st of February 2003 | DEATH | Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) Michael P. Anderson (Born 1959) David Brown (b. 1956) Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961) Laurel Clark (b. 1961) Rick D. Husband (b. 1957) Willie McCool (b. 1961) Ilan Ramon (b. 1954) |
| 1st of February 2003 | DEATH | Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (Born 1922) |
| 1st of February 2004 | DEATH | May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (Born 1909) |
| 1st of February 2005 | DEATH | John Vernon, Canadian actor (Born 1932) |
| 1st of February 2006 | DEATH | Dick Bass, American football player (Born 1937) |
| 1st of February 2006 | DEATH | Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (Born 1931) |
| 1st of February 2007 | DEATH | Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (Born 1911) |
| 1st of February 2007 | DEATH | Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (Born 1937) |
| 1st of February 2007 | DEATH | Ray Berres, American baseball player (Born 1907) |
| 1st of February 2007 | DEATH | Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (Born 1926) |
| 1st of February 2007 | DEATH | Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (Born 1946) |
| 1st of February 2008 | DEATH | Beto Carrero, Brazilian theme park owner and entertainer (Born 1937) |