On this day: 2 February
Events, births and deaths on 2 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Barbie Hsu
- Deaths · Brian Murphy
- Events · Luka Dončić trade
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Bob Elliott
100 years ago1926
- Births · Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- Deaths · Vladimir Sukhomlinov
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 962 · Events · Holy Roman Empire
- 1124 · Deaths · Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia
Events · 18
- 880(Julian date)
- 962(Julian date)Holy Roman Empire — multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe (800/962–1806)
- 1141Battle of Lincoln — battle of Lincoln, England in 1141
- 1428(Julian date)1428 Catalonia earthquake — XV century earthquake
- 1461Battle of Mortimer's Cross — 1461 battle
- 1645Battle of Inverlochy — 1645 battle that took place during the Wars of Three Kingdoms
- 1797Siege of Mantua — 1797 siege during the War of the First Coalition
- 1848Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo — peace treaty that concludes Mexican-American War of 1846-1848
- 1868Fall of Osaka Castle — part of the Boshin War
- 1870The Seven Brothers — 1870 novel by Aleksis Kivi
- 1876National League — baseball league, part of Major League Baseball
- 1920Treaty of Tartu — 1920 peace treaty between Estonia and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- 1934Export-Import Bank of the United States — American public bank
- 1959Dyatlov Pass incident — unsolved deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union (now Russia) between 1 February and 2 February 1959
- 1971Ramsar Convention — international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands
- 1982Hama Massacre — suppression of the Islamic Revolution and killing of thousands of civilians in Hama, Syria, 1982
- 1998Cebu Pacific Flight 387 — Aviation accident
- 2025Luka Dončić trade — 2025 National Basketball Association trade
Births · 60
- 1208(Julian date)James I of Aragon — King of Aragon (1208–1276)
- 1426Leonor I of Navarre — Queen regnant of Navarre
- 1455(Julian date)John, King of Denmark — king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- 1494(Julian date)Bona Sforza — Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania
- 1522(Julian date)Lodovico Ferrari — Italian mathematician (1522–1565)
- 1649Benedict XIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730
- 1650Nell Gwyn — Royal mistress (1650-1687)
- 1700Johann Christoph Gottsched — German writer, dramaturge, linguist and literary theorist as well as professor of poetics, logic and metaphysics (1700–1766)
- 1717Ernst Gideon von Laudon — Austrian general (1717–1790)
- 1754Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord — French diplomat (1754-1838)
- 1829Alfred Brehm — German naturalist (1829-1884)
- 1866Enrique Simonet — Spanish painter (1866-1927)
- 1873Konstantin von Neurath — German Foreign Minister, Ambassador and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, general and Nazi war criminal (1873-1956)
- 1875Fritz Kreisler — Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)
- 1882James Joyce — Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
- 1882Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark — Greek prince; father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, grandfather Charles III (1882-1944)
- 1889Jean de Lattre de Tassigny — French army general, Marshal of France (1889-1952)
- 1893Damdin Sükhbaatar — Mongolian military leader (1893-1923)
- 1896Kazimierz Kuratowski — Polish mathematician (1896–1980)
- 1901Jascha Heifetz — Russian-American violinist (1901–1987)
- 1905Ayn Rand — Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
- 1912Millvina Dean — Last remaining survivor of Titanic disaster
- 1915Abba Eban — Israeli diplomat and politician (1915-2002)
- 1918Hella Haasse — Dutch writer (1918–2011)
- 1923Svetozar Gligorić — Serbian and Yugoslavian chess player (1923–2012)
Deaths · 60
- 619(Julian date)Laurence of Canterbury — second Archbishop of Canterbury
- 880(Julian date)Bruno, Duke of Saxony — Catholic saint
- 1124(Julian date)Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia — Duke of Bohemia
- 1218Konstantin of Rostov — Russian prince (1185-1218)
- 1250Eric XI of Sweden — King of Sweden (1216-1250)
- 1294(Julian date)Louis II, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine (1229-1294)
- 1435(Julian date)Joanna II of Naples — Queen of Naples (1373-1435)
- 1446(Julian date)Vittorino da Feltre — Italian Renaissance-Humanist and teacher
- 1449(Julian date)Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani — Egyptian Islamic scholar (1372–1449)
- 1461(Julian date)Owen Tudor — Welsh noble (1400–1461)
- 1512(Julian date)Hatuey — hispaniolan Cacique (died 1512)
- 1594Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)
- 1660Gaston, Duke of Orléans — French prince
- 1660Govert Flinck — painter from the Northern Netherlands (1615-1660)
- 1704Guillaume de l'Hôpital — French noble and mathematician (*1661 – †1704)
- 1723Antonio Maria Valsalva — Italian physician
- 1769Clement XIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
- 1793William Aiton — British botanist
- 1836Maria-Letizia Bonaparte — mother of Napoleon
- 1907Dmitri Mendeleev — Russian chemist (1834–1907)
- 1913Gustaf de Laval — Swedish engineer (1845-1913)
- 1918John L. Sullivan — American boxer (1858–1918)
- 1942Daniil Kharms — Russian writer (1905–1942)
- 1945Carl Friedrich Goerdeler — German politician and member of the 20 July plot (1884-1945)
- 1945Alfred Delp — German Jesuit priest, and philosopher of the German Resistance (1907-1945)
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