the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, on the way to creating the modern Romanian state.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as his own private property.
1900 – The United States and United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
1909 - Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. "
Synthetic" means it is not a real plastic.
1913 - Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – Mexico's current constitution is adopted, establishing a Federal Republic.
1918 – The British military transporter ship Tuscania is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Northern Ireland.
1919 - United Artists is formed by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith.
1924 – The Winter Olympics in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France end.
1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
1937 - The six principles of "Kemalism" become part of Turkey's Constitution.
1939 - Francisco Franco becomes Caudillo of Spain.
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is proposed as the first President of the United Arab Republic.
1961 - The Sunday Telegraph newspaper is founded in the UK.
1962 - Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be given independence.
1971 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American in the basketball Hall of Fame.
1974 - The Mariner 10 space probe passes the planet Venus.
1975 - Riots break out in Lima, Peru, after the police forces went on strike the day before.
The uprising is violently crushed by the country's military dictatorship.
1985 – After being closed since 1969, Spain's border with Gibraltar is fully reopened.
1988 – Panama's leader Manuel Noriega is indicted for drug smuggling and money laundering.
1994 – A mortar shell hits a market place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, killing 60 people and injuring around 200.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the murder of Civil rights activist Medgar Evans in 1963.
1997 - An earthquake in Northeastern Iran kills 100 people.
2000 - Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 – Morecambe Bay, England: 23 Chinese cockle pickers drown after being caught by the incoming tide.
2006 – Super Bowl XL: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks to win their 5th Super Bowl championship.
2008 – A tornado outbreak in the southern United States kills 57 people.
2017 - Cameroon defeats Egypt 2-1 to win the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Libreville, Gabon.
2017 - American football: The New England Patriots come from behind to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in the 51st Super Bowl.
976 – Emperor Sanjo of Japan (d. 1017)
1505 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian soldier, composer and critic (d. 1612)
1589 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
1594 - Biagio Marini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663)
1725 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
1748 - Elias Stein, Dutch chess player (d. 1812)
1748 - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor (d. 1798)
1784 - Nancy Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
1788 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist and geologist (d. 1871)
1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
1808 - Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
1810 – Ole Bull, Norwegian composer (d. 1880)
1824 - Alfonso Capecelatro, Italian archbishop, author and librarian (d. 1921)
1827 – Peter Lalor, leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (d. 1889)
1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
1840 - Simeon E. Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1927)
1846 - John C. Cutler, Governor of Utah (d. 1928)
1848 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)
1848 - Ignacio Carrero Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)
1852 - Terauchi Masatake, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1919)
1862 - Aleksander Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw (d. 1938)
1866 - Domhnall Ua Buachalla, 3rd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963)
1875 - Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., American mammalogist, bacteriologist and pathologist (d. 1942)
1878 – Andre Citroen, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
1880 – Gabriel Voison, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
1889 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962)
1892 - Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1959)
1897 - Dirk Stikker, Dutch NATO Secretary-General (d. 1979)
1900 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois (d. 1965)
1906 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
1907 – Pierre Pflimlin, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins (d. 1969)
1910 – Charles Leblond, Canadian cell biologist (d. 2007)
1910 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (d. 2010)
1911 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
1914 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (d. 1997)
1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British physiologist and biophysicist (d. 1998)
1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist (d. 1990)
1915 - Margaret Millar, Canadian author (d. 1994)
1916 - Ugo Locatelli, Italian footballer (d. 1993)
1917 - Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
1919 - Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
1919 - Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973)
1921 - Ken Adam, German-born British motion picture designer (d. 2016)
1921 - John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
1923 - Fatmawati, First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
1923 - Claude King, American musician (d. 2013)
1924 - Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (d. 2014)
1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 2012)
1926 - Stefan Gierasch, American actor (d. 2014)
1929 – Fred Sinowatz, Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
1929 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
1929 - Al Worthington, American baseball player
1929 - Hal Blaine, American musician
1930 - Ilon Wikland, Estonian-Swedish illustrator
1932 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer (d. 2016)
1933 - Milos Milutinovic, Yugoslavian footballer (d. 2003)
1933 - Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan priest, diplomat and politician (d. 2017)
1934 – Hank Aaron, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1934 - Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey player
1935 - Charles Turnbull, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
1937 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 - Miguel Boyer, French-Spanish economist and politician (d. 2014)
1940 - H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (d. 2014)
1941 – Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer and writer (d. 2010)
1941 - Cory Wells, American musician (d. 2015)
1941 – David Selby, American actor
1941 - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councillor
1943 – Michael Mann, American movie director
1944 - Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1971)
1945 - Chubby Brown, British comedian
1946 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress
1946 - Mauro Pagani, Italian singer-songwriter and violinist
1947 - Clemente Mastella, Italian politician
1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
1948 – Christopher Guest, American actor and director
1949 – Kurt Beck, German politician
1950 - Catherine Castel, French actress and make-up artist
1950 - Marie-Pierre Cassel, French actress
1950 - Jonathan Freeman, American actor
1951 - Russell Grant, British astrologer
1951 - Robin Sachs, British actor (d. 2013)
1951 - Nikolay Merkushkin, Russian politician
1952 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter
1953 - Gustavo Benitez, Paraguayan footballer
1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician
1959 – Jennifer Granholm, Canadian-born American politician, former Governor of Michigan
1961 - Albert Anderson, New Zealand rugby player
1961 - Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
1961 - Jim Meadows, American actor
1961 - Hakan Peker, Turkish dancer, songwriter, singer and musical composer
1962 - Jacqui Dankworth, English jazz singer
1964 – Laura Linney, American actress
1964 – Duff McKagan, American musician
1964 - David Gilmore, American jazz musician
1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
1966 - Jose Maria Olazabal, Spanish golfer
1966 - Vivian Wu, Chinese actress
1969 – Bobby Brown, American singer
1969 – Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
1970 - Jean-Marc Jaumin, Belgian basketball player and coach
1972 – Mary E. Donaldson, Crown Princess of Denmark
1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer
1975 - Alison Hammond, English television presenter
1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
1976 – John Aloisi, Australian footballer
1977 – Ben Ainslie, English sailor
1980 - Patrick Grady, Scottish politician
1980 - Jo Swinson, Scottish politician
1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer
1980 - Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
1980 - Tiwa Savage, Nigerian singer, songwriter and actress
1981 - Nora Zehetner, American actress
1982 - Aidin Nikkah Behrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
1982 – Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
1984 – Carlos Tevez, Argentine footballer
1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
1985 - Paul Vandervort, American actor and model
1986 - Andreas Beck, German tennis player
1986 – Vedran Corluka, Croatian footballer
1987 - Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 - Natalie Geisenberger, German luger
1990 - Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer
1991 – Alba Riquelme, Paraguayan model
1992 – Neymar, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
1992 - Carina Vogt, German ski jumper, first women's Ski jumping Olympic champion
1994 - Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer
1995 - Adnan Januzaj, Belgian footballer
1995 - Trayvon Martin, American teenager, shooting victim (d. 2012)
2002 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
2016 - Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Crown Prince of Bhutan
1520 – Sven Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
1578 - Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1520)
1661 - Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1638)
1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
1754 - Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican military leader and politician (b. 1725)
1818 – King Charles XIII of Sweden (b. 1748)
1881 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1795)
1882 - Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish traveler, writer and diplomat (b. 1841)
1889 - Ole Jacob Broch, Norwegian scientist and politician (b. 1818)
1917 – Jaber II al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
1927 - Inayat Khan, Indian educator (b. 1882)
1931 - Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician (b. 1849)
1933 - Joseph Roffo, French rugby player (b. 1879)
1938 – Hans Litten, German lawyer (b. 1903)
1941 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (b. 1864)
1941 - Otto Strandman, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1864)
1947 – Hans Fallada, German writer (b. 1893)
1952 - Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (b. 1877)
1953 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (b. 1873)
1955 - Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
1969 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)
1972 - Marianne Moore, American writer (b. 1887)
1976 - Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1981 – Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer and director (b. 1909)
1993 - Tip Tipping, English actor and stuntman (b. 1958)
1993 - Adnan Kahveci, Turkish politician (b. 1949)
1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat (b. 1920)
1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist (b. 1906)
2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual guru (b. 1917)
2009 – Dana Vavrova, Czech actress (b. 1967)
2010 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat (b. 1924)
2011 – Brian Jacques, British writer (b. 1939)
2013 - Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer (b. 1924)
2014 - Carlos Borges, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1931)
2015 - Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer (b. 1930)
2015 - K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
2015 - Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist (b. 1923)
2016 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish poet and novelist (b. 1944)
2016 - Bill Birchfield, American politician (b. 1935)
2016 - Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (b. 1919)
2017 - Sonny Geraci, American musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Björn Granath, Swedish actor (b. 1946)
2018 - Margot Duhalde, Chilean pilot (b. 1920)
2021 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (b. 1929)
Constitution Day (Mexico)
Kashmir Solidarity Day (Kashmir)
Unity Day (Burundi)
Runeberg's birthday (Finland)
A large number of successful footballers and football managers were born on February 5.
This includes ones that are currently active in either playing or management, and some who are currently not.
February 05
421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 - Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1347 - End of the Byzantine Empire's civil war of 1341 to 1347.
1575 - The University of Leiden in the Netherlands is founded.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is executed.
1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex fails in an attempt to take over England from Elizabeth I.
1676 - Tsar Alexis of Russia dies.
His son, Feodor III of Russia, becomes Tsar.
1725 – Tsar Peter I of Russia dies.
1807 - Napoleonic Wars: In the Battle of Eylau in present-day Poland, Napoleon Bonaparte's French troops defeat  the Russians under General Levin August, Count of Bennigsen.
1817 - Juan Gregorio de las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join Jose de San Martin in liberating Chile from Spain.
1837 - The United States Senate chooses Richard Mentor Johnson to become Vice President of the United States.
1853 - The Oregon Territory is split up, as the northern part becomes the Washington Territory.
Oregon becomes a US State in 1859, with Washington doing the same in 1889.
1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in Devon.
1865 - Delaware votes to continue with the practice of slavery, though it bans it in 1901.
1879 - Sandford Fleming proposes the idea of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institution.
1879 - England's national cricket team is attacked in a riot in Sydney, Australia.
1885 - The first Japanese immigrants to be allowed in by the then-Hawaiian government, arrive in Hawaii.
1887 - The Henry L. Dawes Act allows the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land.
1904 - A surprise Japanese torpedo attack at Port Arthur, China, starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is founded by William D. Boyce.
1915 - D. W. Griffith's racist silent movie Birth of a Nation is first screened in Los Angeles, California.
1922 - Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 - The first state execution by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1937 - The Massacre of Malaga during the Spanish Civil War begins.
Over the next few days, an estimated 10,000 people are killed.
1942 - World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1945 - World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada start Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1946 - The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published.
1948 - Official creation of the Korean People's Army in North Korea.
1950 - The Stasi, East Germany's secret police, is founded.
1952 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Queen after the death of her father, King George VI of the United Kingdom, two days earlier.
1960 - Queen Elizabeth II issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants would carry the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
1960 - The first eight brass star plaques are installed at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 - Charonne massacre: Nine Trade unionists are killed by French police, which had been allowed by the-then chief of Paris police, Maurice Papon.
1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by US citizens in Cuba are banned by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 - The first full-color television programme is broadcast in Mexico City.
1963 - Iraq's Prime Minister, Brigadier-General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 - Eastern Airlines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after take-off from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport, after trying to avoid a mid-air collision.
All on board are killed.
1968 - An attack on African American students from South Carolina State University, protesting in Orangeburg, South Carolina, kills 3 or 4.
1969 - The so-called Allende meteorite lands in Chihuahua State, Mexico.
1971 - South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos.
1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens.
1974 - After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
1974 - A military coup occurs in Upper Volta, present-day Burkina Faso.
1978 - United States Senate proceedings are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso is elected President of the Republic of the Congo.
1981 - 21 football fans are trampled to death in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a match between Olympiakos and AEK Athens.
1983 - After a record-breaking drought, the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia is affected by a dust storm, and a red dust cloud hangs over the city.
1984 - The 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo begin.
1986 - The Hinton train collision in southern Alberta, Canada, kills 23 people.
1989 - An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Pico Alto Mountain on Santa Maria island, Azores.
1992 - The 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, begin.
1993 – A plane crash in Tehran kills 115 people.
1996 - The massive internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
2002 - The 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, begin.
2010 - A freak storm in the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan, causes a series of at least 36 avalanches, killing at least 172 people, and trapping many travelers in the region.
2013 - A strong winter storm affects the northeastern United States.
120 - Vettius Valens, Greek astrologer (d. 175)
412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 485)
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 – Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1405 - Constantine XI Palaiologus, last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453)
1487 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
1586 - Jacob Praetorius, German composer (d. 1651)
1612 – Samuel Butler, English poet (d. 1680)
1649 - Gabriel Daniel, French historian (d. 1728)
1700 – Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1782)
1708 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, Bohemian composer and organist (d. 1789)
1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1754 - Isaac Tichenor, Governor of Vermont (d. 1838)
1762 - Gia Long, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1820)
1792 - Carolina Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1873)
1798 - Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (d. 1849)
1804 - Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (d. 1834)
1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
1818 - Austin Blair, Governor of Michigan (d. 1894)
1819 – John Ruskin, English writer (d. 1900)
1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American Union General (d. 1891)
1822 - Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894)
1825 - Henry Walter Bates, English scientist (d. 1892)
1828 – Jules Verne, French writer (d. 1905)
1828 - Antonio Canovas del Castillo, Spanish politician (d. 1897)
1830 - Abdulaziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1876)
1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
1849 - Arisitide Cavallari, Italian cardinal and archbishop (d. 1914)
1850 - Kate Chopin, American writer (d. 1904)
1861 - Harry Ward Leonard, American engineer and inventor (d. 1915)
1866 - Moses Gomberg, Russian-born American chemist (d. 1947)
1876 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (d. 1907)
1878 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher (d. 1965)
1880 - Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916)
1880 - Viktor Schwanneke, German stage director, stage and movie actor (d. 1931)
1882 - Thomas Etholen Selfridge, American military officer and airplane crash victim (d. 1908)
1883 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)
1884 - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)
1886 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)
1888 - Jakob Kaiser, German politician and activist (d. 1961)
1890 - Claro M. Recto, Filipino statesman (d. 1960)
1892 - Ralph Chubb, British poet, artist and printmaker (d. 1960)
1893 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
1894 - Ludwig Marcuse, German writer and philosopher (d. 1971)
1894 - King Vidor, American movie director (d. 1982)
1897 – Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India (d. 1969)
1899 - Lonnie Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
1900 - Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Russian animator and director (d. 1987)
1902 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
1903 - Greta Keller, Austrian-American singer and actress (d. 1977)
1903 - Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (d. 1942)
1906 - Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1968)
1909 - Elisabeth Murdoch, mother of Rupert Murdoch (d. 2012)
1911 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979)
1911 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (d. 1985)
1913 - Betty Field, American actress (d. 1973)
1914 - Bill Finger, American comic writer (d. 1974)
1920 - Bill Bemer, American computer programmer (d. 2004)
1921 – Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
1921 - Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Commonwealth Congregations (d. 1999)
1921 - Eddie Rutherford, Scottish footballer (d. 2007)
1922 - Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player
1924 – Khamtai Siphandone, former President of Laos
1925 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and movie director (d. 2001)
1926 - Neal Cassidy, American writer (d. 1968)
1928 - Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Russian actor (d. 2009)
1928 - Jack Larson, American actor, screenwriter and producer (d. 2015)
1929 - Claude Rich, French actor (d. 2017)
1930 - Catherine Hardy Lavender, American athlete (d. 2017)
1931 – James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
1932 – Horst Eckel, German footballer
1932 – John Williams, American composer and director
1932 - Cliff Allison, British racing driver (d. 2005)
1933 - Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
1933 - Jack Larson, American actor
1936 - Larry Verne, American singer
1937 - Manfred Krug, German actor (d. 2016)
1937 - Harry Wu, Chinese activist (d. 2016)
1941 - Jagjit Singh, Indian musician (d. 2011)
1941 - Nick Nolte, American actor
1941 - Tom Rush, American singer and songwriter
1944 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, British actor (d. 2014)
1945 – Kinza Clodumar, former President of Nauru
1947 - John Roll, American judge (d. 2011)
1947 - Yi Zhongtian, Chinese writer
1948 - Ron Tyson, American singer
1948 - Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1949 - Brooke Adams, American actress
1951 - Rosario Crocetta, Italian politician, former President of Sicily
1952 - Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
1952 - Carolyn Pickles, British actress
1953 – Mary Steenburgen, American actress
1955 – John Grisham, American writer
1955 - Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer
1956 - Marques Johnson, American basketball player
1957 - Mehmet Ali Erbil, Turkish comedian, actor and talk show host
1958 - Marina Silva, Brazilian environmental activist and politician
1958 - Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1959 - Irina Kalinina, Soviet-Russian diver
1959 - Mauricio Macri, Argentine businessman and politician, President of Argentina
1960 – Benigno Aquino III, former President of the Philippines (d. 2021)
1960 – Alfred Gusenbauer, former Chancellor of Austria
1960 - Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Vince Neil, American singer
1961 - Bruce Timm, American character designer, animator and producer
1963 - Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer
1963 - Jon Hjartarson, Icelandic chess player
1964 - Trinny Woodall, British fashion designer, author and television personality
1966 – Bruno Labbadia, German footballer
1966 – Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
1967 – Lorenzo Minotti, Italian footballer
1968 – Gary Coleman, American actor (d. 2010)
1969 - Mary McCormack, American actress
1971 - Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier
1971 - Aidy Boothroyd, English footballer and manager
1972 - Big Show, American wrestler and actor
1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)
1974 – Seth Green, American actor
1974 – Kimbo Slice, American mixed martial artist (d. 2016)
1974 – Ulises de la Cruz, Ecuadorean footballer
1976 - Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer
1976 - Adam Pialt, American baseball player
1976 - Abi Titmuss, English glamour model
1977 – Sverre Andreas Jakobsson, Icelandic handball player
1977 - Mathieu Turcotte, Canadian short-track speed skater
1977 - Dave Farrell, American musician
1979 - Aaron Cook, American baseball player
1979 - Josh Keaton, American actor and singer
1980 - Ralf Little, English actor and comedian
1981 - Steve Gohouri, Ivorian footballer (d. 2015)
1982 - Liam McIntyre, Australian actor
1983 - Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player
1983 - Olga Syahputra, Indonesian comedian (d. 2015)
1983 - Jim Verraros, American singer and actor
1984 - Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian alpine skier
1984 - Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
1985 - Jeremy Davis, American musician (Paramore)
1987 - Jessica Jerome, American ski jumper
1987 – Carolina Kostner, Italian ice skater
1987 - Francisco Javier Garcia, Spanish footballer
1988 - Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese model
1989 - Dani Harmer, English actress
1990 - Bethany Hamilton, American surfer
1990 - Klay Thompson, American basketball player
1991 - Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer, composer, songwriter and actor
1992 - Carl Jenkinson, English footballer
1994 - Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian jazz and pop singer-songwriter
1995 - Joshua Kimmich, German footballer
1995 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress
1996 - Kenedy, Brazilian footballer
1997 - Kathryn Newton, American actress
1204 - Alexius IV Angelus, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1182)
1250 - Robert I, Count of Artois (b. 1216)
1265 - Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
1296 - King Przemysl II of Poland (b. 1257)
1572 - Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator and poet (b. 1501)
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
1640 - Murad IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1612)
1676 - Alexis of Russia (b. 1629)
1696 – Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
1709 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)
1725 – Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)
1749 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
1750 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)
1768 - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)
1772 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
1849 – France Preseren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800)
1849 - Francois Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1781)
1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
1887 - Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and polar explorer (b. 1798)
1918 - Louis Renault, French jurist (b. 1843)
1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
1932 - Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1867)
1935 - Max Liebermann, German painter (b. 1847)
1936 – Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)
1956 - Connie Mack, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1862)
1957 – Walther Bothe, German physicist (b. 1891)
1957 – John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
1960 - Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (b. 1880)
1963 - George Dolenz, American actor (b. 1908)
1965 - Wayne Estes, American basketball player (b. 1943)
1972 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (b. 1905)
1975 – Robert Robinson, British chemist (b. 1886)
1978 - Sam H. Jones, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1897)
1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist (b. 1900)
1985 - William Lyons, British entrepreneur (b. 1901)
1990 – Del Shannon, American entertainer (b. 1934)
1992 - Stanley Armour Dunham, grandfather of Barack Obama (b. 1918)
1992 - Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (b. 1924)
1994 - Raymond Scott, American composer (b. 1908)
1994 - Ken G. Hall, Australian movie director and producer (b. 1901)
1998 – Halldor Laxness, Icelandic writer (b. 1902)
1998 – Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912)
1998 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and writer (b. 1932)
1999 – Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (b. 1919)
2001 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian movie director and writer (b. 1920)
2002 – Ong Teng Cheong Sing, President of Singapore (b. 1936)
2005 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer and singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2007 – Anna Nicole Smith, American actress and model (b. 1967)
2009 - Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
2010 – John Murtha, American politician (b. 1932)
2011 - Cesare Rubini, Italian water polo player, basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
2013 - Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (b. 1918)
2014 - Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1988)
2014 - Els Borst, Dutch politician (b. 1932)
2015 - Müzeyyen Senar, Turkish singer (b. 1918)
2015 - Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish parapsychologist (b. 1939)
2016 - Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
2016 - Nida Fazli, Indian poet (b. 1937)
2016 - Charles C. Campbell, American general (b. 1948)
2016 - Johnny Duncan, American actor (b. 1923)
2016 - August P. Mardesich, American politician (b. 1920)
2016 - Viggo Rivad, Danish photographer (b. 1922)
2016 - Violette Verdy, French ballerina (b. 1933)
2017 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, English socialite and television personality (b. 1971)
2017 - Peter Mansfield, English physicist (b. 1933)
2017 - Brendan McGahon, Irish politician (b. 1936)
2017 - Alan Simpson, English comedy scriptwriter (b. 1929)
2017 - Steve Sumner, English-New Zealand footballer (b. 1955)
2017 - Mikhail Tolstykh, Ukrainian military commander (b. 1980)
2017 - Mohamud Muse Hersi, Somali politician, President of Puntland (b. 1937)
2017 - Tom Raworth, British poet and visual artist (b. 1938)
2018 - John Martinkovic, American football player (b. 1927)
2018 - Ebony Reigns, Ghanaian singer (b. 1997)
2018 - Lovebug Starski, American rapper and DJ (b. 1960)
Preseren Day (Slovenia)
February 08
1637 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
1690 - Constantin Cremer, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sitiu.
1760 - British ship HMS Ramilles strands at Bolt Head near Plymouth, England, after a navigation error.
Around 700 people on board are killed.
26 survive.
1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
1786 - The "Cat's Eye" nebula is discovered by William Herschel.
1794 - The Tricolore becomes the national flag of France.
1798 - The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon Bonaparte, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.
1804 - The Serbian Revolution begins.
1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
1855 - French frigate La Semillante breaks apart in the Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica and Sardinia, killing all 693 people on board.
1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1879 - Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases at the United States Supreme Court.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana, Cuba, killing over 260 people.
This leads to the US declaring war on Spain.
1901 - Peruvian football club Alianza Lima is founded under the name "Sport Alianza".
1909 - The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico, kills 250 people.
1923 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar, becoming the last European country to do so.
1925 - 1925 Serum Run to Nome, Alaska: The serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, with Balto as the lead dog of the last team.
1933 - In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara tries to kill President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt but instead shoots Mayor of Chicago Anton J. Cermak, who dies on March 6.
1942 - World War II: Singapore falls to the Japanese.
1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino in Italy begins.
1945 - World War II: Third day of the Fire Bombing of Dresden.
1946 - ENIAC, the first electronic  general-purpose computer is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania.
1952 - The funeral of King George VI of the United Kingdom is held in London.
1953 - Liechtenstein holds its first parliamentary election.
1956 – Urho Kekkonen is elected President of Finland.
1961 - Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73 people, including the entire US figure skating team.
1965 – The Maple Leaf flag becomes Canada's flag
1967 – Chicago, a musical group forms.
1970 - A Dominican DC-9 airplane crashes into the sea shortly after take-off from Santo Domingo, killing 102 people.
1971 – Britain adopts decimal currency.
1972 - Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador, is overthrown by a military coup.
1979 - Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia.
1989 – The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan.
1994 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Sumatra, killing 207 people.
1996 - The tanker Sea Empress runs aground at Milford Haven, South Wales, leaking oil.
2000 - The European Union starts membership talks with Slovakia, Latvia and Bulgaria.
2001 - The first draft of the complete human genome is published in the Nature journal.
2003 – Millions of people around the world protest against the planned US-led invasion of Iraq.
2005 – YouTube is founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
2012 - A major fire at a prison in Honduras kills over 360 people.
2013 - 2013 Russian meteor event: A meteor crashes down over Chelyabinsk, Russia, shattering windows and injuring over 1,000 people.
Coincidentally, near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 passed within 27,700 kilometers of distance to Earth's surface later on this date.
Up to 1825
1368 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1437)
1377 - Ladislaus of Naples (died 1414)
1458 - Ivan the Young, son of Ivan III of Russia (died 1490)
1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian ruler (died 1503)
1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician (died 1642)
1571 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (died 1621)
1620 - Francois Charpentier, French archaeologist (died 1702)
1621 - Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French founder of Montreal (died 1676)
1710 – King Louis XV of France (died 1774)
1725 - Abraham Clark, American founding father (died 1794)
1739 - Alexander-Theodore Brogniart, French architect (died 1813)
1748 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (died 1832)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, German painter (died 1829)
1759 - Friedrich August Wolf, German archaeologist (died 1824)
1760 - Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer (died 1837)
1774 - Prince Frederick of Orange-Nassau (died 1799)
1792 - Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (died 1866)
1803 - John Sutter, Swiss-American pioneer (died 1880)
1809 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (died 1857)
1809 - Cyrus McCormack, American inventor (died 1884)
1811 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (died 1888)
1812 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweller (died 1902)
1813 - Fredrick Holbrook, Governor of Vermont (died 1909)
1820 – Susan B. Anthony, American women's civil rights leader (died 1906)
1820 - Arvid Posse, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1901)
1825 - Carter Harrison, Sr.,
Mayor of Chicago (died 1893)
1826  1900
1826 - George Johnstone Stoney, Irish physicist (d. 1911)
1831 - Adolf Deucher, Swiss politician (d. 1912)
1834 - Vasile Alexandrescu Urechia, Moldovan-Romanian politician, historian and writer (died 1901)
1835 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek sports official (died 1908)
1835 - Nguyen Khuyen, Vietnamese scholar, poet and teacher (died 1909)
1840 - Titu Maiorescu, Prime Minister of Romania (died 1917)
1841 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (died 1913)
1845 – Elihu Root, American politician (died 1937)
1847 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (died 1927)
1851 - Spiru Haret, Romanian-American mathematician, astronomer and politician (died 1912)
1856 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (died 1926)
1858 - William Henry Pickering, American astronomer (died 1938)
1859 - Louis-Joseph Maurin, French cardinal (died 1936)
1860 - Scott C. Pone, American Territorial Governor of Alaska (died 1936)
1861 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist (died 1938)
1861 – Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician (died 1947)
1861 - Billy Adams, 24th Governor of Colorado (died 1954)
1873 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist (died 1964)
1874 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (died 1922)
1877 - Louis Renault, French automobile executive (died 1944)
1890 - Robert Ley, German Nazi official (died 1945)
1891 - Dino Borgioli, Italian lyric tenor (died 1960)
1892 - James Forrestal, United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1949)
1893 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (died 1947)
1899 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (died 1985)
1904 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (died 1893)
1905 – Harold Arlen, American composer (died 1986)
1907 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (died 1991)
1907 – Cesar Romero, American actor (died 1994)
1908 - Sarto Fournier, 38th Mayor of Montreal (died 1980)
1908 - Toto, Italian actor (died 1967)
1909 – Miep Gies, Dutch helper of Anne Frank and other Jews (died 2010)
1909 - Guillermo Gorostiza, Spanish footballer (died 1966)
1910 – Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (died 2008)
1910 – Stanley Vann, British musician (died 2010)
1912 - Andrei Lupan, Moldovan writer and politician (died 1992)
1913 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (died 1997)
1914 - Hale Boggs, American politician (died 1972)
1914 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (died 2010)
1916 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress
1917 - Gösta Andersson, Swedish wrestler (died 1975)
1920 - Endicott Peabody, Governor of Massachusetts (died 1997)
1922 - John B. Anderson, American politician
1923 - Yelena Bonner, Russian activist (died 2011)
1927 - Carlo Maria Martini, Italian cardinal (died 2012)
1928 - Norman Bridwell, American author and cartoonist (died 2014)
1929 - Graham Hill, British racing driver (died 1975)
1929 - James R. Schlesinger, American politician (died 2014)
1931 – Claire Bloom, British actress
1934 - Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
1935 – Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (died 1967)
1939 - Robert Hansen, American serial killer (died 2014)
1940 - Hamzah Haz, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
1941 - Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
1944 - Mick Avory, English drummer (The Kinks)
1945 - John Helliwell, English musician (Supertramp)
1946 - Clare Short, British politician
1947 - Marisa Berenson, American actress
1948 – Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
1948 - Tino Insana, American actor, writer and movie producer
1948 - Bernd Pischetsrieder, German automobile engineer and manager
1949 - Francisco Maturana, Colombian footballer
1951 – Jane Seymour, British actress
1951 – Melissa Manchester, American singer
1952 – Tomislav Nikolic, President of Serbia
1953 – Derek Conway, English politician
1954 – Matt Groening, American writer and cartoonist, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama
1954 – Armand Parmentier, Belgian athlete
1955 – Janice Dickinson, American supermodel
1955 – Christopher McDonald, American actor
1956 – Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (died 1992)
1956 – Desmond Haynes, Barbadian cricketer
1957 – Jimmy Spencer, American racing driver
1959 – Ali Campbell, British musician (UB40)
1959 – Martin Rowson, English author and illustrator
1960 – Mikey Craig, English musician (Culture Club)
1960 – Roman Kostrzewski, Polish musician
1961 – Neale Daniher, Australian rules footballer
1962 – Milo Dukanovic, 29th Prime Minister of Montenegro
1964 – Chris Farley, American comedian (died 1997)
1964 – Leland D. Melvin, American engineer and astronaut
1964 – Mark Price, American basketball player and coach
1967 – Craig Simpson, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress
1972 – Anna-Jane Casey, English actress, writer and dancer
1972 – Jaromir Jagr, Czech ice hockey player
1973 – Katerina Neumannova, Czech cross-country skier
1973 – Alex Borstein, American actress
1973 – Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
1974 – Toni Puutansuu, Finnish singer (Lordi)
1974 – Omarosa Manigault Newman, American businesswoman and actress
1974 – Miranda July, American actress, screenwriter and director
1976 - Brandon Boyd, American musician
1976 - Oscar Freire, Spanish cyclist
1976 - Giorgos Karagoutis, Greek basketball player
1976 - Ronnie Vannucci, Jr., American musician (The Killers)
1979 – Scott Severin, Scottish footballer
1980 - Conor Oberst, American singer and songwriter
1980 - Josh Sole, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
1981 – Heurelho Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Olivia, American singer
1981 - Rita Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
1983 – David Degen, Swiss footballer
1983 – Philipp Degen, Swiss footballer
1983 - Ashley Tesoro, American actress and singer
1984 - Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer
1986 - Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
1986 - Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer
1986 - Amber Riley, American actress and singer
1987 - Jarrod Sammut, Australian rugby player
1988 - Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer
1988 - Rui Patricio, Portuguese footballer
1988 - Tim Mannah, Australian rugby player
1990 - Erwin Sak, Polish footballer
1990 - Charles Pic, French racing driver
1990 - Stephanie Vogt, Liechtenstein tennis player
1991 - Angel Sepulveda, Mexican footballer
1991 - Panagiotis Tachtsidis, Greek footballer
1992 - Greer Grammer, American actress
1995 - Sara Daebritz, German footballer
1998 - Zachary Gordon, American actor
670 - Oswiu of Northumbria (b. 612)
706 - Leontios, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
706 - Tiberios III, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
1145 – Pope Lucius II
1152 - Conrad, Holy Roman Emperor
1621 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
1637 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
1738 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
1775 – Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
1781 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer and philosopher (b. 1729)
1818 – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
1835 – Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
1844 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
1847 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
1848 – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
1849 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)
1857 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
1864 - Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1785)
1869 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu (b. 1796)
1897 - Dimitrie Ghica, Romanian politician (b. 1816)
1905 - Lew Wallace, American politician (b. 1827)
1911 - Theodor Escherich, German paediatrician (b. 1859)
1919 - André Prévost, French tennis player (b. 1880)
1924 - Lionel Monckton, English composer (b. 1861)
1926 – Piero Gobetti, Italian publisher, activist and politician (b. 1901)
1928 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
1932 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, Broadway actress (b. 1865)
1933 - Pat Sullivan, Australian cartoonist, animator and producer (b. 1887)
1953 - Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete (b. 1881)
1959 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1961 - Bradley Lord, American figure skater (b. 1939)
1961 - Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
1964 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1880)
1965 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
1966 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909)
1967 - William Christian Bullitt, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1891)
1968 - Little Walter, American singer and guitarist (b. 1930)
1970 - Hugh Dowding, English RAF commander (b. 1882)
1973 – Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
1973 – Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
1974 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
1981 – Mike Bloomfield, American musician (b. 1944)
1981 – Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
1984 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
1988 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1991 - Birger Malmsten, Swedish actor (b. 1920)
1996 – Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
1999 – Big L (Lamont Coleman), American rapper (b. 1974)
1999 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
2000 - Angus MacLean, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1914)
2002 – Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
2002 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
2004 – Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and International Court of Justice judge (b. 1917)
2004 – Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 - Hasse Ekman, Swedish actor and director (b. 1915)
2005 – Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2005 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2007 - Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2013 - Todor Kolev, Bulgarian actor (b. 1939)
2014 - Federico Campbell, Mexican writer (b. 1941)
2014 - Christopher Malcolm, Scottish actor (b. 1946)
2015 - Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
2015 - Haron Amin, Afghan diplomat (b. 1969)
2015 - Eileen Essell, English actress (b. 1922)
2016 - Vanity, Canadian singer (b. 1959)
2016 - Fighton Simukonda, Zambian footballer (b. 1958)
2016 - George Gaynes, Finnish-born American actor (b. 1917)
2016 - Salman Natour, Israeli-Palestinian author (b. 1949)
2017 - Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra, Portuguese royal (b. 1949)
2017 - Manfred Kaiser, German footballer (b. 1929)
2017 - Stuart McLean, Canadian radio broadcaster (b. 1948)
Day of the Flag of Canada
Liberation Day (Afghanistan)
National Day (Serbia)
Candlemas (Eastern Orthodox Church)
1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols.
1306 – In Dumfries, Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch.
1355 – St. Scholastica's Day riot: Two days of rioting in Oxford leaves 63 scholars and probably 30 locals dead.
1567 – An Explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field building in Edinburgh and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley is found dead, most probably in an assassination.
1763 - In the Treaty of Paris, France has to give Quebec to Great Britain.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and Prussians.
1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort, marry.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is informed by telegraph of his election as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.
1870 – The YWCA (Young Woman's Christian Association) is founded in New York City.
1881 - French opera Les contes d'Hoffmann is first performed in Paris.
1904 - Russo-Japanese War: Japan declares war on Russia.
1906 – The battleship HMS Dreadnought is launched in Portsmouth.
1910 - Off Minorca, French passenger ship General Chanzy is tossed against a reef in a storm, causing it to sink.
Only 1 of the 156 people on board survives.
1920 – North Schleswig votes to become part of Denmark.
1933 –  Round 13 of Boxing Match in New York City's Madison Square Garden: Primo Carnera  knocks down Ernie Schaaf, who dies four days later as a result of his injuries.
1939 - Spanish Civil War: Nationalists finish their conquest of Catalonia and seal Spain's border with France.
1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied Eastern Poland to Siberia.
1942 – A Japanese submarine bombs Midway Atoll.
1945 - German passenger ship Steuben with 4,000 refugees on board off the Pomeranian Baltic Sea coast, is torpedoed by a Soviet U-boat and sinks, killing 3,500.
1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia-Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1949 – The play Death of a Salesman is performed for the first time in Broadway.
Its writer, Arthur Miller, dies on the same date 56 years later.
1952 – Jawaharlal Nehru wins India's first election.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against intervention in Vietnam.
1957 – In Sudan, football's Africa Cup of Nations is held for the first time.
1962 – Captured American pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 - Aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with destroyer HMAS Voyager off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1972 - The remote North Atlantic rock of Rockall is fully integrated as part of Scotland.