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By jlynch on February 2, 2007.

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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