February 1

### Up to 1900

- 1327 – Edward III is crowned King of England.
- 1329 – King John of Bohemia captures Medvegalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders.
- 1662 – The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine–month siege.
- 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being stranded on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands (now belonging to Chile). This inspires the story of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
- 1713 – The _Kalabalik_ or _Tumult in Bendery_ results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
- 1788 – Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
- 1790 – In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
- 1793 – France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
- 1814 – The Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people. This is the most devastating eruption of the Mayon Volcano.
- 1835 – Slavery is banned in Mauritius.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
- 1862 – Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time (_Atlantic Monthly_).
- 1865 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, banning slavery and slave keeping.
- 1880 – The first edition of theatrical newspaper _The Stage_ is published.
- 1884 – Volume 1 of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 1893 – Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first movie studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
- 1895 – Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
- 1896 – The opera La bohème premieres (Turin).
- 1897 – The Shinhan Bank opens in Seoul. It is the oldest bank in what is now South Korea.

### 1901 – 1950

- 1904 – Iceland gets increased autonomy from Denmark.
- 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
- 1913 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
- 1915 – Photographs are required in United Kingdom passports for the first time.
- 1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- 1919 – The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
- 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
- 1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
- 1929 – Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
- 1933 – Paul von Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag under recommendation from Adolf Hitler.
- 1942 – World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
- 1942 – Voice of America begins broadcasting.
- 1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary–General.
- 1946 – Hungary is declared a republic with Zoltan Tildy as President.
- 1948 – The Federation of Malaya is founded.

### 1951 – 2000

- 1953 – In the night following January 31 large parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and the southeastern United Kingdom are flooded after heavy storms.
- 1958 – Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
- 1959 – Neuchatel and Vaud become the first cantons of Switzerland to allow women to vote.
- 1960 – Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1964 – The Beatles have their first US Number One – "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
- 1965 – Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada, is renamed Churchill River, after Winston Churchill, who had died just over a week earlier.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: NLF officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.
- 1970 – Two trains collide in Benavidez, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. With 236 people being killed, this is the deadliest accident in Argentine rail travel.
- 1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by Royal Charter.
- 1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a federal territory of Malaysia.
- 1974 – In São Paulo, Brazil, a fire in a 25–story office building kills 189 and injures 293. Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.
- 1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13–year–old girl.
- 1978 – In Finland, Urho Kekkonen is elected to a fifth term in–a–row as President.
- 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
- 1982 – Senegal and The Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
- 1985 – Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashes shortly after take–off from Minsk, killing 58 people.
- 1989 – Boulder and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia form the city of Kalgoorlie–Boulder.
- 1991 – USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 collide on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34 people.
- 1992 – 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.
- 1993 – Gary Bettman becomes the first commissioner of the NHL.
- 1994 – In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex–husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
- 1995 – Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embassy Hotel in London, UK.
- 1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 1998 – Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
- 1999 – North Dakota Public Radio is launched.

### From 2001

- 2002 – Having been taken hostage, American journalist Daniel Pearl is killed by his captors.
- 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts on board.
- 2004 – At least 244 people are trampled to death in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
- 2004 – At the Super Bowl half–time show, part of Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during a routine with Justin Timberlake. This started the 'Nipplegate' scandal.
- 2009 – Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland. She is the world's first national head of government in a same-sex relationship.
- 2012 – Violence following a football match in Port Said, Egypt, results in 74 deaths.
- 2013 – John Kerry becomes United States Secretary of State.
- 2013 – The Shard in London, the EU's tallest building, opens to the public.
- 2014 – Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to serve as Head of the United States Federal Reserve, succeeding Ben Bernanke.
- 2016 – The Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes and causing deformities in newborn babies in South America and Central America, is declared a major world health emergency by the World Health Organization.
- 2017 – Rex Tillerson is confirmed as United States Secretary of State.
- 2021 – The coup d'état in Myanmar happens.

### Up to 1900

- 1261 – Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)
- 1394 – Ikkyu, Japanese Zen master and poet (d. 1481)
- 1435 – Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (d. 1472)
- 1459 – Conrad Celtis, German poet (d. 1508)
- 1462 – Johannes Trithemius, German lexicographer, historian, and cryptographer (d. 1516)
- 1501 – Queen Munjeong of Korea (d. 1565)
- 1552 – Edward Coke, English jurist and politician (d. 1634)
- 1648 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright (d. 1724)
- 1659 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (d. 1729)
- 1673 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian poet, composer, and philosopher (d. 1747)
- 1687 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, German composer, and violinist (d. 1733)
- 1690 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
- 1701 – Johan Agrell, Swedish–born German composer (d. 1765)
- 1761 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, mycologist (d. 1836)
- 1801 – Thomas Cole, English–born American painter (d. 1848)
- 1807 – William B. Campbell, 16th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1867)
- 1825 – James W. Throckmorton, 25th Governor of Texas (d. 1894)
- 1844 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (d. 1844)
- 1851 – Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
- 1858 – Ignacio Bonillas, Mexican diplomat (d. 1942)
- 1859 – Victor Herbert, composer (d. 1924)
- 1872 – Clara Butt, English contralto (d. 1936)
- 1873 – Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
- 1874 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)
- 1878 – Alfred Hajos, Hungarian swimmer and architect (d. 1955)
- 1878 – Milan Hodza, Slovakian politician (d. 1944)
- 1878 – Hattie Wyatt Caraway, United States Senator (d. 1950)
- 1879 – Henry Chrétien, French astronomer, professor, and inventor (d. 1956)
- 1882 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
- 1882 – Prince Andrew of Greece (d. 1944)
- 1884 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937)
- 1885 – Camille Chautemps, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
- 1887 – Charles Nordhoff, English–born writer (d. 1947)
- 1888 – Charles January, American soccer player (d. 1970)
- 1894 – John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
- 1894 – James P. Johnson, pianist, composer (d. 1955)
- 1894 – Lucian Grigorescu, Romanian painter (d. 1965)
- 1896 – Anastasio Somoza Garcia, President of Nicaragua (d. 1956)
- 1898 – Leila Denmark, American physician and supercentenarian (d. 2012)

### 1901 – 1925

- 1901 – Frank Buckles, American World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2011)
- 1901 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
- 1902 – Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)
- 1904 – Franciska Gaal, Jewish–Hungarian cabaret artist and actress (d. 1973)
- 1904 – S. J. Perelman, humorist, writer (d. 1979)
- 1905 – Emilio G. Segré, Italian physicist (d. 1989)
- 1906 – Adetokunbo Ademola, Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1993)
- 1907 – Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
- 1908 – George Pal, director, producer (d. 1980)
- 1909 – George Beverly Shea, Canadian–American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1910 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan politician (d. 2009)
- 1915 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000)
- 1915 – Alicia Rhett, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1915 – Victor Shem-Tov, Bulgarian–Israeli politician (d. 2014)
- 1917 – Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player
- 1918 – Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Peter Sallis, English actor (d. 2017)
- 1921 – Ann Z. Caracristi, American cryptanalyst (d. 2016)
- 1921 – Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (d. 2002)
- 1922 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Richard Hooker, American writer (d. 1997)
- 1924 – Emmanuel Scheffer, German–born Israeli footballer and coach (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist

### 1926 – 1950

- 1927 – Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
- 1927 – Günter Guillaume, German spy (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008)
- 1928 (or 1929) – Stuart Whitman, American actor
- 1930 – Maria Helena Walsh, Argentine writer and journalist (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Shahabuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
- 1930 – Hussein Muhammad Ershad, former President of Bangladesh
- 1931 – Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh (d. 2012)
- 1931 – Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007)
- 1932 – Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (d. 2016)
- 1933 – Wendell R. Anderson, former Governor of Minnesota
- 1934 – Nicolae Breban, Romanian writer
- 1934 – Ninan Koshy, Indian thinker, theologian and social analyst (d. 2015)
- 1934 – Bob Shane, American singer
- 1935 – Dieter Kühn, writer
- 1936 – Azie Taylor Morton, American politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
- 1937 – Don Everly, American musician
- 1937 – Garrett Morris, American comedian
- 1938 – Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (d. 2009)
- 1939 – Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist, philosopher and writer
- 1939 – Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Claude François, French singer and composer (d. 1978)
- 1939 – Yuri Rost, Russian photographer, journalist and traveller
- 1940 – Bibi Besch, Austrian–American actress (d. 1996)
- 1941 – Jerry Spinelli, American writer
- 1941 – Teofil Codreanu, Romanian footballer (d. 2016)
- 1942 – Terry Jones, British actor and writer (_Monty Python's Flying Circus_) (d. 2020)
- 1942 – Muna Wassef, Syrian actress
- 1943 – Rosemarie Frankland, Welsh actress and model (d. 2000)
- 1944 – Petru Popescu, Romanian–American writer, director, movie producer and writer
- 1944 – Dick Snyder, American basketball player
- 1944 – Mike Enzi, United States Senator for Wyoming (d. 2021)
- 1946 – Bart Braverman, American actor
- 1946 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (d. 2011)
- 1947 – Adam Ingram, Scottish politician
- 1947 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
- 1948 – Rick James, American musician, composer (d. 2004)
- 1949 – Franco Causio, Italian footballer
- 1950 – Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer
- 1950 – Ali Haydar Konca, Turkish politician
- 1950 – Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (d. 2014)

### 1951 – 1975

- 1951 – John McNally, Scottish politician
- 1951 – Andrew Smith, English politician
- 1952 – Roger Y. Tsien, Chinese–American cell biologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2016)
- 1953 – Periko Alonso, Spanish footballer
- 1954 – Bill Mumy, American actor and musician
- 1955 – Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian politician (d. 2012)
- 1955 – Ernie Camacho, American baseball player
- 1956 – Brahmanandam, Indian actor
- 1956 – Exene Cervenka, American musician (X)
- 1956 – Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1957 – Renae Jacobs, American voice actress
- 1957 – Walter Schachner, Austrian footballer
- 1958 – William Dufris, American voice actor and audiobook narrator (d. 2020)
- 1958 – Ryo Horikawa, Japanese guitarist
- 1958 – Margie Abbott, wife of Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott
- 1958 – Eleanor Laing, Scottish lawyer and politician
- 1961 – Daniel M. Tani, American engineer and astronaut
- 1962 – Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi politician
- 1962 – Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese rock guitarist
- 1963 – Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
- 1964 – Linus Roache, British actor
- 1964 – Jani Lane, American musician (d. 2011)
- 1965 – Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1965 – Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
- 1965 – Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
- 1966 – Vasilis Dimitriades, Greek footballer
- 1966 – Michelle Akers, American soccer player
- 1966 – Adnan Siddiqui, Best UAE based Pakistani Lawyer
- 1968 – Lisa Marie Presley, American actress
- 1968 – Pauly Shore, American comedian
- 1969 – Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
- 1969 – Joshua Redman, American jazz musician
- 1969 – Brian Krause, American actor
- 1969 – Nino Salukvadze, Georgian sports shooter
- 1969 – Andrew Breitbart, American conservative publicist and journalist (d. 2012)
- 1971 – Jill Kelly, erotic actress
- 1971 – Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
- 1971 – Michael C. Hall, American actor
- 1972 – Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 1972 – Christian Ziege, German footballer
- 1972 – Johan Wadem, Belgian footballer
- 1973 – Oscar Perez, Mexican footballer
- 1974 – Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
- 1974 – Walter McCarty, American basketball player
- 1975 – Katerina Thanou, Greek athlete
- 1975 – Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)

### From 1976

- 1976 – Katrin Jakobsdottir, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1977 – Kevin Kilbane, English–Irish footballer
- 1977 – Libor Sionko, Czech footballer
- 1978 – K'naan, Somali singer
- 1978 – Julie Roberts, American country music singer
- 1979 – Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (d. 2005)
- 1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Héctor Luna, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
- 1982 – Daisy Betts, Australian actress
- 1982 – Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby player
- 1982 – Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer
- 1982 – Kim Jong-wook, South Korean singer
- 1983 – Andrew VanWyngarden, American musician
- 1984 – Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
- 1984 – Lee Thompson Young, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1985 – Karine Sergerie, Canadian taekwondo world champion
- 1985 – Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
- 1986 – Jorrit Bergsma, Dutch speed skater
- 1986 – Lauren Conrad, American television personality
- 1986 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
- 1987 – Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Heather Morris, American actress and dancer
- 1987 – Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer
- 1987 – Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist, judoka and actress
- 1989 – Alfred Finnbogason, Icelandic footballer
- 1990 – Dan Gosling, English footballer
- 1990 – Laura Marling, English singer-songwriter
- 1994 – Harry Styles, English singer (One Direction)
- 1994 – Skylar Laine, American singer-songwriter
- 1995 – Oliver Heldens, Dutch DJ, musician and producer
- 1996 – Dionne Bromfield, English singer-songwriter
- 1997 – Jihyo, South Korean singer
- 2000 – Paris Smith, American actress and singer

### Up to 1900

- 772 – Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
- 1248 – Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)
- 1328 – Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
- 1542 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (b. 1480)
- 1563 – Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1691 – Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
- 1733 – Augustus III of Poland (b. 1670)
- 1734 – John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
- 1743 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
- 1750 – Bakar of Georgia, Georgian prince and politician (b. 1699)
- 1793 – William Wildman Shute Barrington, English statesman (b. 1717)
- 1851 – Mary Shelley, British writer of _Frankenstein_ (b. 1797)
- 1871 – Alexander Serov, Russian composer (b. 1820)
- 1873 – Matthew Fontaine Maury, American naval officer (b. 1806)
- 1893 – George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
- 1897 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b. 1826)

### 1901 – 2000

- 1903 – George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)
- 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
- 1908 – Luis Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (b. 1887)
- 1922 – William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)
- 1928 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
- 1936 – Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1878)
- 1941 – Walter Abbott, English footballer (b. 1877)
- 1944 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist (b. 1872)
- 1945 – Prince Kiril of Bulgaria (b. 1895)
- 1949 – Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, novelist, critic and activist (b. 1880)
- 1957 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
- 1958 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist (b. 1888)
- 1966 – Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1976 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (b. 1901)
- 1976 – George Whipple, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
- 1980 – Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
- 1981 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908)
- 1986 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1902)
- 1987 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director (b. 1900)
- 1988 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (b. 1975)
- 1989 – Elaine de Kooning, American painter (b. 1918)
- 1995 – Richey James Edwards, Welsh singer and musician (b. 1967)
- 1999 – Baris Manco, Turkish musician (b. 1943)

### From 2001

- 2002 – Hildegard Knef, German actress (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist
- 2003 – Deaths in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
    - Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (b. 1959)
    - David M. Brown, American astronaut (b. 1956)
    - Kalpana Chawla, Indian astronaut (b. 1961)
    - Laurel Clark, American astronaut (b. 1961)
    - Rick D. Husband, American astronaut (b. 1957)
    - Willie McCool, American astronaut (b. 1961)
    - Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut (b. 1954)
- 2004 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian–born composer (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Ahmed Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
- 2009 – Lukas Foss, German–born composer (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Justin Mentell, American actor (b. 1982)
- 2012 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Don Cornelius, American TV host (b . 1936)
- 2013 – Ed Koch, 105th Mayor of New York City (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Barney, pet dog of George W. Bush (b. 2000)
- 2013 – Robin Sachs, British actor (b. 1951)
- 2014 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
- 2014 – Maximilian Schell, Austrian–Swiss actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Vasily Ivanovich Petrov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)
- 2014 – Rene Ricard, American poet (b. 1946)
- 2015 – Aldo Ciccolini, Italian–French pianist (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Ann Mara, American football team owner (b. 1929)
- 2015 – Monty Oum, American animator (b. 1981)
- 2016 – Thomas Tigue, American politician (b. 1945)
- 2016 – Paul Pholeros, Australian architect (b. 1953)
- 2017 – E. Ahamed, Indian politician (b. 1938)
- 2017 – Albano Bortoletto Cavallin, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1930)
- 2017 – Sandy Gandhi, Indian–Australian comedian (b. 1958)
- 2017 – Desmond Carrington, English actor (b. 1926)
- 2017 – Stig Grybe, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
- 2017 – Ken Morrison, English businessman (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Cor van der Hoeven, Dutch footballer (b. 1921)
- 2017 – Asim Basu, Indian theatre director (b. 1935)
- 2017 – Lars-Erik Berenett, Swedish actor (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Ken Morrison, English businessman (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Edward Tipper, American World War II veteran (b. 1921)
- 2018 – Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (b. 1926)
- 2018 – Hazar Khan Bijarani, Pakistani politician (b. 1946)
- 2018 – Dennis Edwards, American singer (b. 1943)
- 2018 – Barys Kit, Belarussian mathematician, physicist, chemist and rocket scientist (b. 1910)
- 2018 – Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist (b. 1922)
- 2018 – Omar Aggad, Palestinian–Saudi businessman (b. 1927)
- 2018 – John Jacob Lavranos, South African botanist (b. 1926)

## Observances

- Start of Black History Month (Canada and United States)
- Start of LGBT History Month (UK)
- Freedom Day (United States)
- Heroes Day (Rwanda)
- Imbolc, a cross–quarter day in the Celtic calendar
- St. Brigid's Day (Ireland)
- Basque region – The alluvial Pheasant Island is controlled by Spain from this date until July 31