February 2

2024 Calendar

February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining until the end of the year (333 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

619 - Laurence of Canterbury, English archbishop
1124 - Borivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1064)
1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
1250 – King Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1294 - Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1229)
1307 - Oljeitu Temur Khagan, Emperor of the Mongol Empire (b. 1265)
1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty in England
1512 - Hatuey, Caribbean tribal chief
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
1594 – Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1675 - Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (b. 1594)
1769 – Pope Clement XVI (b. 1693)
1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
1804 - George Walton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749)
1836 - Laetitia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon (b. 1750)
1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)

1901 – 2000

1904 – William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
1905 - Henri Germain, French banker and politician (b. 1824)
1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
1909 - Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (b. 1829)
1913 - Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
1926 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
1942 - Ado Birk, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1883)
1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
1945 - Alfred Delp, German Resistance activist (b. 1907)
1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
1952 - Callistratus of Georgia, Georgian Patriarch (b. 1866)
1956 - Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1961 - Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
1969 – Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
1970 – Bertrand Russell, British mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)
1979 – Sid Vicious, English musician (b. 1957)
1980 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1911)
1986 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
1987 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
1987 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
1989 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovakian figure skater (b. 1951)
1989 - Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand politician (b. 1901)
1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1995 – Fred Perry, British tennis player (b. 1909)
1995 – Donald Pleasence, British actor (b. 1919)
1996 – Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor and director (b. 1912)
1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)

From 2001

2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
2004 - Bernard McEveety, American movie director (b. 1924)
2005 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2008 – Joshua Lederberg, American biochemist (b. 1925)
2009 – Paul Birch, British footballer (b. 1960)
2014 - Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (b. 1935)
2014 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor and director (b. 1967)
2014 - Eduardo Coutinho, Brazilian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1933)
2014 - Bunny Rugs, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1948)
2015 - Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer (b. 1968)
2015 - Anand Shukla, Indian cricketer (b. 1940)
2015 - Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
2016 - Bob Elliott, American comedian (b. 1923)
2016 - Luiz Felipe Lampreia, Brazilian sociologist and diplomat (b. 1941)
2017 - José Antonio Alonso, Spanish politician (b. 1960)
2017 - Shunichiro Okano, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
2017 - Jeff Sauer, American ice hockey coach (b. 1943)
2017 - Gordon Aikman, Scottish ALS campaigner (b. 1985)
2017 - Alvin Baldus, American politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Bertram Kostant, American mathematician (b. 1928)
2017 - Max Lüscher, Swiss psychotherapist (b. 1923)
2017 - Miltos Papapostolou, Greek footballer (b. 1935)
2017 - Jeff Sauer, American ice hockey coach (b. 1943)
2018 - Dave Barrett, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1930)
2018 - Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman (b. 1937)
2018 - Joseph Polchinski, American theoretical physicist (b. 1954)
2018 - Ole Thestrup, Danish actor (b. 1948)

Births

Up to 1850

1208 – King James of Aragon (d. 1276)
1455 – King John of Denmark (d. 1513)
1457 - Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italian-Spanish historian (d. 1526)
1494 – Bona Sforza, Italian princess, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania (d. 1525)
1522 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
1596 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch architect and artist (d. 1657)
1616 - Sébastien Bourdon, French painter (d. 1671)
1621 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian humanist (d. 1679)
1649 – Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
1650 – Nell Gwyn, British actress and royal mistress (d. 1687)
1669 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d. 1732)
1677 - Jean-Baptiste Moran, French composer (d. 1745)
1695 - William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)
1700 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German philosopher and writer (d. 1766)
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman (d. 1838)
1782 - Henri de Rigny, French admiral and statesman (d. 1835)
1803 - Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1862)
1812 - Yevhan Hretinka, Ukrainian writer (d. 1848)
1829 - Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
1842 - Yulian Vasilyevich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927)
1849 - Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav, Slovakian poet, dramatist and translator (d. 1921)

1851 – 1900

1852 - José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican artist (d. 1913)
1860 - Curtis Guild, Jr., 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1861 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1949)
1872 - Tome de Barros Queiroz, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1925)
1873 – Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and statesman (d. 1956)
1873 - Leo Fall, Austrian operetta composer (d. 1925)
1875 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1962)
1880 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
1882 – James Joyce, Irish writer (d. 1941)
1882 - Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (d. 1944)
1885 - Aldo Palazzeschi, Italian writer (d. 1974)
1885 - Mikhail Frunze, Soviet general (d. 1925)
1887 - Pat Sullivan, Australian cartoonist, animator and movie producer (d. 1933)
1887 – Ernst Hanfstaengl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975)
1890 - Charles Correll, American actor (d. 1972)
1891 – Antonio Segni, Italian politician (d. 1972)
1892 - Tochigayama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1969)
1892 - Cuno Hoffmeister, German astronomer (d. 1968)
1893 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974)
1893 – Sukhbaatar Damdin, Mongolian national hero (d. 1924)
1895 - George Halas, American NFL co-founder (d. 1983)
1896 – Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician (d. 1980)
1897 - Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman (d. 1972)

1901 – 1925

1901 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist (d. 1987)
1905 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born writer and philosopher (d. 1982)
1909 - Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964)
1912 – Millvina Dean, last Titanic survivor (d. 2009)
1912 - Burton Lane, American composer and songwriter (d. 1997)
1915 - Abba Eban, Israeli politician (d. 2002)
1915 - Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and writer (d. 2014)
1917 - Do Muoi, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam
1918 – Hella Haasse, Dutch writer (d. 2011)
1918 - Luis Nishizawa, Mexican painter (d. 2014)
1919 - Lisa Della Casa, Swiss operatic soprano (d. 2012)
1923 - Svetozar Gligoric, Serbian chess player (d. 2012)
1923 - Bonita Granville, American actress (d. 1988)
1923 - Red Schoendienst, American baseball player, coach and manager
1923 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist (d. 2017)
1924 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born producer and musician (d. 2007)
1925 - Elaine Stritch, American actress (d. 2014)

1926 – 1950

1926 – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former President of France (d. 2020)
1926 - Ehsan Naraghi, Iranian sociologist and writer (d. 2012)
1926 - Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal
1927 - Stan Getz, American jazz musician (d. 1991)
1928 – Ciriaco de Mita, Italian politician
1929 – George Band, British mountaineer (d. 2011)
1929 - Vera Chytilova, Czech movie director (d. 2014)
1929 - John Henry Holland, American scientist (d. 2015)
1931 – Walter Burkert, German philologist (d. 2015)
1931 – Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
1931 – Dries van Agt, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2024)
1932 - Robert Mandan, American actor
1933 – Than Shwe, Burmese military leader
1934 - Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2014)
1935 - Pete Brown, American golfer (d. 2015)
1935 - Evgeni Velikhov, Russian physicist
1936 - Duane Jones, American actor (d. 1988)
1936 - Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer (d. 1991)
1937 - Eric Arturo Delvalle, President of Panama (d. 2015)
1938 - Norman Fowler, English journalist and politician
1939 - Dale Mortensen, American economist (d. 2014)
1940 – David Jason, English actor
1940 - Alan Caddy, English musician
1940 - Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction writer and poet (d. 2008)
1941 - Lee Redmond, former world record holder for the longest finger nails
1942 – Graham Nash, English-American musician
1942 - Jang Sung-taek, North Korean politician (d. 2013)
1944 - Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (d. 2012)
1945 - Robert Atzorn, German actor
1946 - Isaias Afewerki, President of Eritrea
1946 - Alpha Oumar Konaré, former President of Mali
1946 - Blake Clark, American actor
1947 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
1948 - Ina Garten, American cookery writer and television presenter
1948 - Al McKay, American guitarist and songwriter
1949 – Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish entrepreneur
1949 - Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (d. 1996)
1950 - Libby Purves, English journalist and writer

== 1951

February 2 Media

Mosaic of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

– 1975 ==

1951 - Ken Bruce, Scottish radio presenter
1951 – Valdir Peres, Brazilian footballer
1952 - Park Geunhye, former President of South Korea
1952 - Dave Casper, American football player
1952 - Rick Dufay, American guitarist and songwriter (Aerosmith)
1952 - Carol Ann Susi, American actress (d. 2014)
1954 – Christie Brinkley, American model
1954 – Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian singer and actor
1954 - John Tudor, American baseball player
1955 - Leszek Engelking, Polish poet and writer
1955 - Kim Zimmer, American actress
1958 - Fighton Simukonda, Zambian footballer (d. 2016)
1959 - Ildefonso Falcones, Spanish writer
1961 - Lauren Lane, American actress
1961 - Steve Penney, NHL player
1961 - Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal, former Prime Minister of Mongolia
1962 - Philippe Claudel, French writer and movie director
1962 - Andy Fordham, English darts player
1963 - Kjell Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
1963 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (d. 1996)
1963 - Andrej Kiska, President of Slovakia
1963 - Stephen McGann, English actor
1966 - Michael Misick, former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
1967 - Laurent Nkunda, Congolese rebel leader
1968 - Thomas Teige, German martial artist, actor and record holder
1969 - Valeri Karpin, Russian footballer
1970 - Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress and screenwriter
1972 – Dana International, Israeli singer
1972 - Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player

From 1976

1976 - James Hickman, British swimmer
1977 – Shakira, Colombian singer
1977 – Libor Sionko, Czech footballer
1977 - Martin Andresen, Norwegian footballer
1978 – Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer
1978 - Faye White, English footballer
1978 - Barbara Mori, Uruguayan-Mexican actress
1979 - Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
1979 - Fani Chalkia, Greek athlete
1979 – Christine Bleakley, Northern Irish television presenter
1980 - Teddy Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1980 - Nina Zilli, Italian singer
1980 - Gavin Newlands, Scottish politician
1981 – Emre Aydin, Turkish singer
1981 - Salem al-Hazmi, Saudi terrorist (d. 2001)
1982 - Han Ga In, South Korean model and actress
1983 – Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
1984 - Edgaras Cesnauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1985 - Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter
1985 - Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer
1985 - Melody Gardot, American jazz singer-songwriter
1986 - Gemma Arterton, English actress
1987 - Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
1987 - Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
1987 – Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
1987 – Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer
1987 - Jill Scott, English footballer
1988 - Zosia Mamet, American actress
1989 - Ivan Perisic, Croatian footballer
1990 – Dan Gosling, English footballer
1991 - Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer
1991 - Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1993 - Ravel Morrison, English footballer

Deaths

Holidays

Groundhog Day - United States, said to determine whether winter weather will continue or whether it will get warmer
Candlemas - Western Christianity
Imbolc - Paganism
Inventor's Day - Thailand
World Wetlands Day
Constitution Day - Philippines
Anniversary of the Treaty of Tartu (Estonia)