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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of February 0506 | EVENT | Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates The Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum) a collection of Roman law. |
| 2nd of February 0962 | EVENT | Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years. |
| 2nd of February 1032 | EVENT | Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy. |
| 2nd of February 1207 | EVENT | Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established. |
| 2nd of February 1461 | EVENT | Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England. |
| 2nd of February 1536 | EVENT | Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
| 2nd of February 1542 | EVENT | Portuguese under Christovao da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Bacente. |
| 2nd of February 1653 | EVENT | New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated. |
| 2nd of February 1812 | EVENT | Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California. |
| 2nd of February 1848 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed. |
| 2nd of February 1848 | EVENT | California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California. |
| 2nd of February 1876 | EVENT | The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed. |
| 2nd of February 1887 | EVENT | In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed. |
| 2nd of February 1899 | EVENT | The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne. |
| 2nd of February 1901 | EVENT | Funeral of Queen Victoria. |
| 2nd of February 1913 | EVENT | Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City. |
| 2nd of February 1920 | EVENT | France occupies Memel. |
| 2nd of February 1920 | EVENT | The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia. |
| 2nd of February 1922 | EVENT | Ulysses by James Joyce is published. |
| 2nd of February 1925 | EVENT | Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race. |
| 2nd of February 1925 | EVENT | The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. |
| 2nd of February 1934 | EVENT | The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated. |
| 2nd of February 1935 | EVENT | Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine. |
| 2nd of February 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces. |
| 2nd of February 1946 | EVENT | The Hungarian Republic is proclaimed. |
| 2nd of February 1957 | EVENT | Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage. |
| 2nd of February 1966 | EVENT | Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. |
| 2nd of February 1971 | EVENT | Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda. |
| 2nd of February 1972 | EVENT | The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday. |
| 2nd of February 1974 | EVENT | The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. |
| 2nd of February 1976 | EVENT | The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. |
| 2nd of February 1980 | EVENT | Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation. |
| 2nd of February 1982 | EVENT | Hama Massacre: Syria attacks the town of Hama. |
| 2nd of February 1987 | EVENT | After the 1986 People Power Revolution the Philippines enacts a new constitution. |
| 2nd of February 1989 | EVENT | Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul. |
| 2nd of February 1990 | EVENT | Apartheid: F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela. |
| 2nd of February 2004 | EVENT | Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks. |
| 2nd of February 1208 | BIRTHDAY | King James I of Aragon (d. 1276) |
| 2nd of February 1455 | BIRTHDAY | King John of Denmark (d. 1513) |
| 2nd of February 1494 | BIRTHDAY | Bona Sforza, queen of Poland (d. 1557) |
| 2nd of February 1502 | BIRTHDAY | Damiao de Gois, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574) |
| 2nd of February 1506 | BIRTHDAY | Rene de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583) |
| 2nd of February 1522 | BIRTHDAY | Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565) |
| 2nd of February 1600 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Naude, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653) |
| 2nd of February 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649) |
| 2nd of February 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian humanist (d. 1679) |
| 2nd of February 1649 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730) |
| 2nd of February 1650 | BIRTHDAY | Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (d. 1687) |
| 2nd of February 1669 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d. 1732) |
| 2nd of February 1695 | BIRTHDAY | William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772) |
| 2nd of February 1695 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de Chevert, French general (d. 1769) |
| 2nd of February 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (d. 1766) |
| 2nd of February 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat (d. 1794) |
| 2nd of February 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Gottfried August Homilius, German composer (d. 1785) |
| 2nd of February 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790) |
| 2nd of February 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820) |
| 2nd of February 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, French diplomat and statesman (d. 1838) |
| 2nd of February 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856) |
| 2nd of February 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887) |
| 2nd of February 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1862) |
| 2nd of February 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884) |
| 2nd of February 1829 | BIRTHDAY | William Stanley, inventor and engineer (d. 1909) |
| 2nd of February 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912) |
| 2nd of February 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927) |
| 2nd of February 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (d. 1921) |
| 2nd of February 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Guadalupe Posada, Mexican artist (d. 1913) |
| 2nd of February 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Guild, Jr., American politician (d. 1915) |
| 2nd of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1949) |
| 2nd of February 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and statesman (d. 1956) |
| 2nd of February 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962) |
| 2nd of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Hajos, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1955) |
| 2nd of February 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Orval Overall, American baseball player (d. 1947) |
| 2nd of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941) |
| 2nd of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Hanfstangl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975) |
| 2nd of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969) |
| 2nd of February 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (d. 1952) |
| 2nd of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Correll, American actor (d. 1972) |
| 2nd of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (d. 1959) |
| 2nd of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970) |
| 2nd of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974) |
| 2nd of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | George Halas, American NFL co-founder (d. 1983) |
| 2nd of February 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980) |
| 2nd of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972) |
| 2nd of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Aime Avignon, France's former oldest living man (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Kamm, American baseball player (d. 1988) |
| 2nd of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987) |
| 2nd of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Ising, German-born wife of Ernst Ising |
| 2nd of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Newbold Morris, American politician (d. 1966) |
| 2nd of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Ayn Rand, Russian-born American author and philosopher (d. 1982) |
| 2nd of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Wes Ferrell, American baseball player (d. 1976) |
| 2nd of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964) |
| 2nd of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985) |
| 2nd of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Kierans, Canadian politician and economist (d. 2004) |
| 2nd of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002) |
| 2nd of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Xuan Dieu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985) |
| 2nd of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | ?o Muoi, Vietnamese leader |
| 2nd of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Hella S. Haasse, Dutch writer |
| 2nd of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Gawliczek, German football manager (d. 1999) |
| 2nd of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bonita Granville, American actress (d. 1988) |
| 2nd of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Red Schoendienst, American baseball player and manager |
| 2nd of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Smith, American gossip columnist |
| 2nd of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born American producer and musician (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Clemmons, American law enforcement officer (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Stritch, American actress |
| 2nd of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Valery Giscard d'Estaing, French politician |
| 2nd of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Sams, American baseball player |
| 2nd of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr, American civil rights activist (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Chytilova, Czech director |
| 2nd of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | George Band, British mountaineer |
| 2nd of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1977 until 1982 |
| 2nd of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993) |
| 2nd of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Viorst, American author |
| 2nd of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mandan, American actor |
| 2nd of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Jay, English actor (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Than Shwe, ruler of Myanmar |
| 2nd of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Duane Jones, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 2nd of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Don Buford, American baseball player |
| 2nd of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Haden-Guest British American writer |
| 2nd of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Remak Ramsay, American actor |
| 2nd of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Smothers, American musician and comedian |
| 2nd of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (d. 2000) |
| 2nd of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | David Jason, English actor |
| 2nd of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Fontes, American football coach |
| 2nd of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Biddlecombe, English horse racing jockey |
| 2nd of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Nash, British-born American musician |
| 2nd of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Hanson, English actress |
| 2nd of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Davis, British conductor |
| 2nd of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Hughes, British actor |
| 2nd of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Foss, American broadcaster |
| 2nd of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alpha Oumar Konare, Mali politician |
| 2nd of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ina Garten, American author and TV personality |
| 2nd of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Al McKay, American guitarist and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire) |
| 2nd of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Williamson, English racecar driver (d. 1973) |
| 2nd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish entrepreneur |
| 2nd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Valory, American musician (Journey) |
| 2nd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Maturana, Colombian football manager |
| 2nd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Spiner, American actor |
| 2nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Osamu Kido, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 2nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 2nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Sukowa, German actress |
| 2nd of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Cornyn, American politician, junior senator of Texas |
| 2nd of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter |
| 2nd of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Christie Brinkley, American model |
| 2nd of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian singer and actor |
| 2nd of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Tudor, American baseball player |
| 2nd of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Leng, British equestrian |
| 2nd of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Leszek Engelking, Polish poet, writer and translator |
| 2nd of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Barney, French singer |
| 2nd of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Marc Bouchard, Canadian playwright |
| 2nd of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jari Porttila, Finnish sports journalist |
| 2nd of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Lane, American actress |
| 2nd of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Penney, National Hockey League goaltender |
| 2nd of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Fordham, English darts player |
| 2nd of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Kilgus, American baseball player |
| 2nd of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael T. Weiss, American actor |
| 2nd of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Cassidy, American singer (d. 1996) |
| 2nd of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Laats, Belgian judoka |
| 2nd of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Airey, English footballer |
| 2nd of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Naoki Sano, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 2nd of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Robert DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots) |
| 2nd of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis player |
| 2nd of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Arturs Irbe, Latvian hockey player |
| 2nd of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Nkunda, Congolese military leader |
| 2nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Erickson, American baseball player |
| 2nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Wickham-Smith, British musician |
| 2nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Elliott, American basketball player |
| 2nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Teige, German martial artist, actor and record holder |
| 2nd of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Valeri Karpin, Russian footballer |
| 2nd of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek footballer |
| 2nd of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer |
| 2nd of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress |
| 2nd of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | C. Ernst Harth, Canadian actor |
| 2nd of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 2nd of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dana International, Israeli singer |
| 2nd of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower |
| 2nd of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marissa Jaret Winokur, American actress |
| 2nd of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Driver, American football player |
| 2nd of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player |
| 2nd of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Vaggelis Koutsoures, Greek footballer |
| 2nd of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Niclas Wallin, Swedish hockey player |
| 2nd of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer |
| 2nd of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lori Beth Denberg, American actress |
| 2nd of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | James Hickman, British swimmer |
| 2nd of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shakira, Colombian singer |
| 2nd of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Libor Sionko, Czech football player |
| 2nd of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eden Espinosa, American singer and actress |
| 2nd of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Sommer, American actor |
| 2nd of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Ferguson, Scottish football player |
| 2nd of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Urmo Aava, Estonian rally driver |
| 2nd of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Fani Chalkia, Greek hurdler |
| 2nd of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Mainzer, German rugby player |
| 2nd of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter |
| 2nd of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Shamita Shetty, Indian actress |
| 2nd of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Oleguer Presas, Spanish football player |
| 2nd of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Finger-Erben, German television presenter |
| 2nd of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Hart, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 2nd of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Radric Davis, American rapper |
| 2nd of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Bass, English reality TV star and glamour model |
| 2nd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Castano, Spanish footballer |
| 2nd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress |
| 2nd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brandy Talore, American pornographic actress |
| 2nd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player |
| 2nd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Carolina Kluft, Swedish athlete |
| 2nd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ronny Cedeno, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 2nd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Westaway, British musician |
| 2nd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jordin Tootoo, Canadian hockey player |
| 2nd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Will South, British musician (Thirteen Senses) |
| 2nd of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor |
| 2nd of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Wulf, New Zealand rugby player |
| 2nd of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Pique, Spanish football player |
| 2nd of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Spanjers, American actor |
| 2nd of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Gosling, English footballer |
| 2nd of February 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle White, American singer |
| 2nd of February 1124 | DEATH | Borivoj II, Duke of Bohemia |
| 2nd of February 1218 | DEATH | Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (Born 1186) |
| 2nd of February 1250 | DEATH | Eric XI of Sweden (Born 1216) |
| 2nd of February 1294 | DEATH | Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (Born 1229) |
| 2nd of February 1307 | DEATH | Oljeitu Temur Khagan, Emperor of the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty (Born 1265) |
| 2nd of February 1461 | DEATH | Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England |
| 2nd of February 1529 | DEATH | Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (Born 1478) |
| 2nd of February 1580 | DEATH | Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (Born 1558) |
| 2nd of February 1594 | DEATH | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (Born 1525) |
| 2nd of February 1648 | DEATH | George Abbot, English writer |
| 2nd of February 1660 | DEATH | Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Born 1615) |
| 2nd of February 1660 | DEATH | Gaston, Duke of Orleans, French politician (Born 1608) |
| 2nd of February 1661 | DEATH | Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (Born 1596) |
| 2nd of February 1688 | DEATH | Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (Born 1610) |
| 2nd of February 1704 | DEATH | Guillaume Francois Antoine, Marquis de l'Hopital, French mathematician (Born 1661) |
| 2nd of February 1712 | DEATH | Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician |
| 2nd of February 1714 | DEATH | John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (Born 1643) |
| 2nd of February 1723 | DEATH | Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (Born 1666) |
| 2nd of February 1768 | DEATH | Robert Smith, English mathematician (Born 1689) |
| 2nd of February 1769 | DEATH | Pope Clement XIII (Born 1693) |
| 2nd of February 1802 | DEATH | Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (Born 1713) |
| 2nd of February 1804 | DEATH | George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1749-50) |
| 2nd of February 1895 | DEATH | Archduke Albert, Austrian general (Born 1817) |
| 2nd of February 1904 | DEATH | William C. Whitney, American financier (Born 1841) |
| 2nd of February 1907 | DEATH | Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (Born 1834) |
| 2nd of February 1909 | DEATH | Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (Born 1829) |
| 2nd of February 1918 | DEATH | John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxer (Born 1858) |
| 2nd of February 1925 | DEATH | Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (Born 1873) |
| 2nd of February 1926 | DEATH | Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (Born 1848) |
| 2nd of February 1932 | DEATH | Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader (Born 1880) |
| 2nd of February 1942 | DEATH | Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of February 1945 | DEATH | Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician, member of the German resistance (Born 1884) |
| 2nd of February 1945 | DEATH | Johannes Popitz, Prussian finance minister, member of the German resistance (Born 1884) |
| 2nd of February 1945 | DEATH | Alfred Delp, German Jesuit priest, member of the German resistance (Born 1907) |
| 2nd of February 1948 | DEATH | Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (Born 1894) |
| 2nd of February 1948 | DEATH | Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (Born 1870) |
| 2nd of February 1950 | DEATH | Constantin Caratheodory, Greek mathematician (Born 1873) |
| 2nd of February 1956 | DEATH | Charles Grapewin, American actor (Born 1869) |
| 2nd of February 1956 | DEATH | Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (Born 1876) |
| 2nd of February 1957 | DEATH | Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (Born 1890) |
| 2nd of February 1961 | DEATH | Anna May Wong, American actress (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of February 1962 | DEATH | Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-born Israeli biochemist (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of February 1969 | DEATH | Boris Karloff, English actor (Born 1887) |
| 2nd of February 1970 | DEATH | Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (Born 1872) |
| 2nd of February 1970 | DEATH | Lawrence Gray, American actor (Born 1898) |
| 2nd of February 1972 | DEATH | Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (Born 1876) |
| 2nd of February 1973 | DEATH | Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of February 1974 | DEATH | Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of February 1979 | DEATH | Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (Born 1957) |
| 2nd of February 1980 | DEATH | William Howard Stein, Nobel laureate (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of February 1980 | DEATH | Hanna Rovina, Israeli actress |
| 2nd of February 1982 | DEATH | Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of February 1983 | DEATH | Sam Chatmon, American blues musician (Born 1897) |
| 2nd of February 1986 | DEATH | Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (Born 1957) |
| 2nd of February 1987 | DEATH | Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of February 1987 | DEATH | Castilho, Brazilian footballer (Born 1927) |
| 2nd of February 1988 | DEATH | Marcel Bozzuffi, French film actor (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of February 1989 | DEATH | Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (Born 1951) |
| 2nd of February 1989 | DEATH | Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand politician (Born 1901) |
| 2nd of February 1990 | DEATH | Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (Born 1934) |
| 2nd of February 1992 | DEATH | Bert Parks, American television host (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of February 1995 | DEATH | Fred Perry, British tennis player (Born 1909) |
| 2nd of February 1995 | DEATH | Thomas Hayward, American tenor (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of February 1995 | DEATH | Donald Pleasence, English actor (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of February 1996 | DEATH | Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (Born 1912) |
| 2nd of February 1997 | DEATH | Sanford Meisner, American actor (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of February 1997 | DEATH | Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (Born 1913) |
| 2nd of February 1999 | DEATH | David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (Born 1962) |
| 2nd of February 2002 | DEATH | Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (Born 1960) |
| 2nd of February 2002 | DEATH | Claude Brown, American writer (Born 1937) |
| 2nd of February 2003 | DEATH | Lou Harrison, American composer (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of February 2004 | DEATH | Bernard McEveety, American film director (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of February 2005 | DEATH | Max Schmeling, German boxer (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (Born 1944) |
| 2nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (Born 1939) |
| 2nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (Born 1927) |
| 2nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (Born 1931) |
| 2nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (Born 1967) |
| 2nd of February 2008 | DEATH | Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (Born 1960) |
| 2nd of February 2011 | DEATH | Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ. (Born 1975) |
| 2nd of February 2011 | DEATH | Margaret John, Welsh actress (Born 1926) |