Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 2
- 1522 - Birth of Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
- 1621 - Birth of Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian humanist (d. 1679)
- 1661 - Death of Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
- 1695 - Birth of William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)
- 1704 - Death of Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661)
- 1712 - Death of Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
- 1723 - Death of Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (b. 1666)
- 1768 - Death of Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
- 1786 - Birth of Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856)
- 1802 - Birth of Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887)
- 1829 - Birth of Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
- 1841 - Birth of François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912)
- 1842 - Birth of Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927)
- 1880 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana
- 1893 - Birth of Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974)
- 1896 - Birth of Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
- 1907 - Death of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834
- 1935 - Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine
- 1939 - Birth of Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (d. 2000)
- 1950 - Death of Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
- 1957 - Death of Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
- 1970 - Death of Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1872)
- 1980 - Death of William Howard Stein, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)