February 2nd
1522 - Birth of Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician
1695 - Birth of William Borlase, English naturalist
1704 - Death of Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician
1712 - Death of Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
1768 - Death of Robert Smith, English mathematician
1786 - Birth of Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician
1802 - Birth of Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist
1829 - Birth of Alfred Brehm, German zoologist
1841 - Birth of François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist
1842 - Birth of Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician
1893 - Birth of Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician
1907 - Death of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist
1950 - Death of Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician
1957 - Death of Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist
1980 - Death of William Howard Stein, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry
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