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February 2

Pre-1600

 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
 * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
 * 962 – Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
 * 1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
 * 1141 – The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
 * 1207 – Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
 * 1428 – An intense earthquake struck the Principality of Catalonia, with the epicenter near Camprodon. Widespread destruction and heavy casualties were reported.
 * 1438 – Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
 * 1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross results in the death of Owen Tudor.
 * 1536 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1601–1900

 * 1645 – Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.
 * 1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
 * 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
 * 1814 – The last of the River Thames frost fairs comes to an end.
 * 1848 – Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
 * 1850 – Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
 * 1868 – Pro-Imperial forces capture Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burn it to the ground.
 * 1870 – The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.
 * 1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
 * 1881 – The sentences of the trial of the warlocks of Chiloé are imparted.
 * 1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
 * 1899 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
 * 1900 – Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis, agree to form baseball's American League.

1901–present

 * 1901 – Funeral of Queen Victoria.
 * 1909 – The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
 * 1913 – Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City.
 * 1920 – The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
 * 1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
 * 1922  – The uprising called the "pork mutiny" starts in the region between Kuolajärvi and Savukoski in Finland.
 * 1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
 * 1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
 * 1935 – Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
 * 1942 – The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
 * 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
 * 1954 – The Detroit Red Wings played in the first outdoor hockey game by any NHL team in an exhibition against the Marquette Branch Prison Pirates in Marquette, Michigan.
 * 1959 – Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
 * 1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
 * 1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
 * 1971  – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
 * 1980 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
 * 1982 – Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
 * 1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
 * 1989 – Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
 * 1990 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
 * 1998 – Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the Philippines, killing all 104 people on board.
 * 2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
 * 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
 * 2005 – The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
 * 2007 – Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.
 * 2012 – The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146–165 dead.
 * 2021 – The Burmese military establishes the State Administration Council, the military junta, after deposing the democratically elected government in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

Pre-1600

 * 450 – Justin I, Byzantine emperor (d. 527)
 * 1208 – James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
 * 1425 (or 1426) – Eleanor of Navarre, Queen regnant of Navarre (d. 1479)
 * 1443 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (d. 1486)
 * 1455 – John, King of Denmark (d. 1513)
 * 1457 – Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italian-Spanish historian and author (d. 1526)
 * 1467 – Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican sister (d. 1501)
 * 1494 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
 * 1502 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher and historian (d. 1574)
 * 1506 – René de Birague, Italian-French cardinal and politician (d. 1583)
 * 1509 – John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1536)
 * 1517 – Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Livonian Order and the first Duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1587)
 * 1522 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1565)
 * 1536 – Piotr Skarga, Polish writer (d. 1612)
 * 1551 – Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (d. 1600)
 * 1576 – Alix Le Clerc, French Canoness Regular and foundress (d. 1622)
 * 1585 – Judith Quiney, William Shakespeare's youngest daughter (d. 1662)
 * 1585  – Hamnet Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's only son (baptised; d. 1596)
 * 1588 – Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl, German nobleman (d. 1644)
 * 1600 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)

1601–1900

 * 1611 – Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (d. 1633)
 * 1613 – Noël Chabanel, French missionary and saint (d. 1649)
 * 1621 – Johannes Schefferus, Swedish author and hymn-writer (d. 1679)
 * 1650 – Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
 * 1650  – Nell Gwyn, English actress, mistress of King Charles II of England (d. 1687)
 * 1651 – William Phips, Royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1695)
 * 1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (d. 1732)
 * 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer (d. 1745)
 * 1695 – William Borlase, English geologist and archaeologist (d. 1772)
 * 1695  – François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769)
 * 1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German author and critic (d. 1766)
 * 1711 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (d. 1794)
 * 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer (d. 1785)
 * 1717 – Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
 * 1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1838)
 * 1782 – Henri de Rigny, French admiral and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1835)
 * 1786 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1856)
 * 1802 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (d. 1887)
 * 1803 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (d. 1862)
 * 1829 – Alfred Brehm, German zoologist and illustrator (d. 1884)
 * 1829  – William Stanley, English engineer and philanthropist (d. 1909)
 * 1841 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and hydrologist (d. 1912)
 * 1842 – Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1927)
 * 1849 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (d. 1921)
 * 1851 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican illustrator and engraver (d. 1913)
 * 1856 – Frederick William Vanderbilt, American railway magnate (d. 1938)
 * 1856  – Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (d. 1905)
 * 1857 – Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (d. 1918)
 * 1860 – Curtis Guild, Jr., American journalist and politician, 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
 * 1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949)
 * 1862 – Émile Coste, French fencer (d. 1927)
 * 1862  – Cornelius McKane, American physician, educator, and hospital founder (d. 1912)
 * 1866 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and academic (d. 1927)
 * 1869 – Alexander Atabekian, Armenian physician and anarchist publisher (d. 1933)
 * 1873 – Leo Fall, Austrian composer (d. 1925)
 * 1873  – Konstantin von Neurath, German politician and diplomat, 13th German Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1956)
 * 1875 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (d. 1962)
 * 1877 – Frank L. Packard, Canadian author (d. 1942)
 * 1878 – Joe Lydon, American boxer (d. 1937)
 * 1880 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
 * 1881 – Orval Overall, American baseball player and manager (d. 1947)
 * 1882 – Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (d. 1944)
 * 1882  – James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1941)
 * 1883 – Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter, created Zorro (d. 1958)
 * 1883  – Julia Nava de Ruisánchez, Mexican activist and writer (d. 1964)
 * 1885 – Mikhail Frunze, Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist (d. 1925)
 * 1886 – William Rose Benét, American poet and author (d. 1950)
 * 1887 – Ernst Hanfstaengl, German businessman (d. 1975)
 * 1889 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (d. 1952)
 * 1890 – Charles Correll, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1972)
 * 1892 – Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (d. 1959)
 * 1893 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)
 * 1893  – Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970)
 * 1893  – Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian soldier and politician (d. 1924)
 * 1895 – George Halas, American football player and coach (d. 1983)
 * 1895  – Robert Philipp, American painter (d. 1981)
 * 1895  – George Sutcliffe, Australian public servant (d. 1964)
 * 1896 – Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
 * 1897 – Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (d. 1972)
 * 1897  – Gertrude Blanch, Russian-American mathematician (d. 1996)
 * 1900  – Willie Kamm, American baseball player and manager (d. 1988)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (d. 1987)
 * 1902 – Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
 * 1902  – John Tonkin, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1995)
 * 1904 – Bozorg Alavi, Iranian author and activist (d. 1997)
 * 1905 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist and philosopher (d. 1982)
 * 1908 – Wes Ferrell, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
 * 1909 – Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964)
 * 1911 – Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland (d. 1968)
 * 1912 – Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer (d. 2009)
 * 1912  – Burton Lane, American songwriter and composer (d. 1997)
 * 1913 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor and singer (d. 1985)
 * 1914 – Eric Kierans, Canadian economist and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Communications (d. 2004)
 * 1915 – Abba Eban, South African-Israeli politician and diplomat, 1st Israel Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2002)
 * 1915  – Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (d. 2005)
 * 1915  – Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author (d. 2014)
 * 1916 – Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (d. 1985)
 * 1917 – Mary Ellis, British World War II ferry pilot (d. 2018)
 * 1917  – Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018)
 * 1918 – Hella Haasse, Indonesian-Dutch author (d. 2011)
 * 1919 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano and actress (d. 2012)
 * 1919  – Georg Gawliczek, German footballer and manager (d. 1999)
 * 1920 – George Hardwick, English footballer and coach (d. 2004)
 * 1920  – John Russell, American Olympic equestrian (d. 2020)
 * 1920  – Arthur Willis, English footballer player-manager (d. 1987)
 * 1922 – Kunwar Digvijay Singh, Indian field hockey player (d. 1978)
 * 1922  – Robert Chef d'Hôtel, French athlete (d. 2019)
 * 1922  – Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (d. 2019)
 * 1922  – James L. Usry, American politician, first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2002)
 * 1923 – Jean Babilée, French dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
 * 1923  – James Dickey, American poet and novelist (d. 1997)
 * 1923  – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster (d. 2012)
 * 1923  – Bonita Granville, American actress and producer (d. 1988)
 * 1923  – Red Schoendienst, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2018)
 * 1923  – Liz Smith, American journalist and author (d. 2017)
 * 1923  – Clem Windsor, Australian rugby player and surgeon (d. 2007)
 * 1924 – Sonny Stitt, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
 * 1924  – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American singer, pianist, producer (d. 2007)
 * 1925 – Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
 * 1926 – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French academic and politician, 20th President of France (d. 2020)
 * 1927 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist (d. 1991)
 * 1927  – Doris Sams, American baseball player (d. 2012)
 * 1928 – Ciriaco De Mita, 47th Prime minister of Italy (d. 2022)
 * 1928  – Gamal Hamdan, Egyptian scholar and geographer (d. 1993)
 * 1928  – Jay Handlan, American basketball player and engineer (d. 2013)
 * 1928  – Tommy Harmer, English footballer and youth team coach (d. 2007)
 * 1929 – Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (d. 2013)
 * 1929  – George Band, English engineer and mountaineer (d. 2011)
 * 1929  – Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
 * 1929  – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)
 * 1929  – Waldemar Kmentt, Austrian operatic tenor (d. 2015)
 * 1931 – Les Dawson, English comedian and author (d. 1993)
 * 1931  – Glynn Edwards, Malaysian-English actor (d. 2018)
 * 1931  – John Paul Harney, Canadian educator and politician (d. 2021)
 * 1931  – Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, diplomat and jurist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2024)
 * 1931  – Judith Viorst, American journalist and author
 * 1932 – Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (d. 2002)
 * 1932  – Robert Mandan, American actor (d. 2018)
 * 1933 – M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
 * 1933  – Tony Jay, English-American actor (d. 2006)
 * 1933  – Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Cuban bassist and composer (d. 2009)
 * 1933  – Than Shwe, Burmese general and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burma
 * 1934 – Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2014)
 * 1935 – Pete Brown, American golfer (d. 2015)
 * 1935  – Evgeny Velikhov, Russian physicist and academic
 * 1936 – Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (d. 1991)
 * 1937 – Don Buford, American baseball player and coach
 * 1937  – Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama (d. 2015)
 * 1937  – Anthony Haden-Guest, British journalist, poet, and critic
 * 1937  – Remak Ramsay, American actor
 * 1937  – Tom Smothers, American comedian, actor, and activist (d. 2023)
 * 1937  – Alexandra Strelchenko, Ukrainian actress and singer (d. 2019)
 * 1938 – Norman Fowler, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
 * 1938  – Bo Hopkins, American actor (d. 2022)
 * 1938  – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
 * 1939 – Jackie Burroughs, English-born Canadian actress (d. 2010)
 * 1939  – Mary-Dell Chilton, American chemist and inventor and one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology
 * 1939  – Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
 * 1940 – Alan Caddy, English guitarist and producer (d. 2000)
 * 1940  – Thomas M. Disch, American author and poet (d. 2008)
 * 1940  – Wayne Fontes, American football player and coach
 * 1940  – David Jason, English actor, director, and producer
 * 1941 – Terry Biddlecombe, English jockey (d. 2014)
 * 1941  – Lee Redmond, American woman with the longest fingernails (d. 2023)
 * 1942  – Graham Nash, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1944 – Andrew Davis, English organist and conductor (d. 2024)
 * 1944  – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (d. 2012)
 * 1944  – Ursula Oppens, American pianist and educator
 * 1945 – John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, English economist and academic
 * 1946 – John Armitt, English engineer and businessman
 * 1946  – Blake Clark, American comedian and actor
 * 1946  – Alpha Oumar Konaré, Malian academic and politician, 3rd President of Mali
 * 1946  – Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman and academic (d. 2009)
 * 1947 – Greg Antonacci, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
 * 1947  – Farrah Fawcett, American actress and producer (d. 2009)
 * 1948 – Ina Garten, American chef and author
 * 1948  – Al McKay, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
 * 1948  – Roger Williamson, English race car driver (d. 1973)
 * 1949 – Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish businessman and philanthropist
 * 1949  – Jack McGee, American actor
 * 1949  – Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (d. 1996)
 * 1949  – Brent Spiner, American actor and singer
 * 1949  – Ross Valory, American bass player and songwriter
 * 1950 – Osamu Kido, Japanese wrestler (d. 2023)
 * 1950  – Libby Purves, British journalist and author
 * 1950  – Bárbara Rey, Spanish singer and actress
 * 1950  – Barbara Sukowa, German actress
 * 1950  – Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese wrestler
 * 1951 – Vangelis Alexandris, Greek basketball player and coach
 * 1951  – Ken Bruce, Scottish radio host
 * 1952 – Dave Casper, American football player
 * 1952  – John Cornyn, American lawyer and politician, 49th Attorney General of Texas
 * 1952  – Park Geun-hye, South Korean politician, 11th President of South Korea
 * 1952  – Ralph Merkle, American computer scientist and academic
 * 1952  – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (d. 2014)
 * 1953 – Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
 * 1953  – Jerry Sisk, Jr., American gemologist, co-founded Jewelry Television (d. 2013)
 * 1954 – Christie Brinkley, American actress, model, and businesswoman
 * 1954  – Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian skier and actor
 * 1954  – Nelson Ne'e, Solomon Islander politician (d. 2013)
 * 1954  – John Tudor, American baseball player
 * 1955 – Leszek Engelking, Polish poet and author (d. 2022)
 * 1955  – Bob Schreck, American author
 * 1955  – Michael Talbott, American actor
 * 1955  – Kim Zimmer, American actress
 * 1956 – Adnan Oktar, Turkish cult leader
 * 1957 – Phil Barney, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
 * 1958 – Michel Marc Bouchard, Canadian playwright
 * 1959 – Dexter Manley, American football player
 * 1961 – Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (d. 2013)
 * 1961  – Lauren Lane, American actress and academic
 * 1962 – Philippe Claudel, French author, director, and screenwriter
 * 1962  – Andy Fordham, English darts player (d. 2021)
 * 1962  – Paul Kilgus, American baseball player
 * 1962  – Kate Raison, Australian actress
 * 1962  – Michael T. Weiss, American actor
 * 1963 – Ilya Byakin, Russian ice hockey player
 * 1963  – Eva Cassidy, American singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
 * 1963  – Kjell Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1963  – Andrej Kiska, Slovak entrepreneur and philanthropist, President of Slovakia
 * 1963  – Philip Laats, Belgian martial artist
 * 1963  – Stephen McGann, English actor
 * 1963  – Vigleik Storaas, Norwegian pianist
 * 1965 – Carl Airey, English footballer
 * 1965  – Naoki Sano, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
 * 1966 – Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis player and coach
 * 1966  – Robert DeLeo, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
 * 1966  – Adam Ferrara, American actor and comedian
 * 1966  – Michael Misick, Caicos Islander politician, Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
 * 1967 – Artūrs Irbe, Latvian ice hockey player and coach
 * 1967  – Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general
 * 1968 – Kenny Albert, American sportscaster
 * 1968  – Sean Elliott, American basketball player and sportscaster
 * 1968  – Scott Erickson, American baseball player and coach
 * 1969 – Dana International, Israeli singer-songwriter
 * 1969  – Valeri Karpin, Estonian-Russian footballer and manager
 * 1970 – Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer
 * 1970  – Erik ten Hag, Dutch footballer and manager
 * 1970  – Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress and singer
 * 1971 – Michelle Gayle, English singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1971  – Arly Jover, Spanish actress
 * 1971  – Isaac Kungwane, South African footballer and sportscaster (d. 2014)
 * 1971  – Rockwilder, American rapper and producer
 * 1971  – Hwang Seok-jeong, South Korean actress
 * 1971  – Jason Taylor, Australian rugby league player and coach
 * 1972 – Hisashi, Japanese musician
 * 1972  – Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player
 * 1972  – Aleksey Naumov, Russian footballer
 * 1973 – Andrei Luzgin, Estonian tennis player and coach
 * 1973  – Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
 * 1973  – Marissa Jaret Winokur, American actress and singer
 * 1975 – Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1975  – Donald Driver, American football player
 * 1975  – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
 * 1976 – Ryan Farquhar, Northern Irish motorcycle racer
 * 1976  – James Hickman, English swimmer
 * 1976  – Ana Roces, Filipino actress
 * 1977 – Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
 * 1977  – Libor Sionko, Czech footballer
 * 1978 – Adam Christopher, New Zealand writer
 * 1978  – Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
 * 1978  – Dan Gadzuric, Dutch basketball player
 * 1978  – Lee Ji-ah, South Korean actress
 * 1978  – Rich Sommer, American actor
 * 1978  – Faye White, English footballer
 * 1979 – Urmo Aava, Estonian race car driver
 * 1979  – Fani Chalkia, Greek hurdler and sprinter
 * 1979  – Christine Lampard, Irish television host
 * 1979  – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
 * 1979  – Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
 * 1980 – Teddy Hart, Canadian wrestler
 * 1980  – Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress
 * 1980  – Oleguer Presas, Spanish footballer
 * 1981 – Lance Allred, American basketball player and activist
 * 1981  – Emre Aydın, Turkish singer-songwriter
 * 1981  – Michelle Bass, English model and singer
 * 1981  – Salem al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001)
 * 1982 – Sergio Castaño Ortega, Spanish footballer
 * 1982  – Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
 * 1982  – Kan Mi-youn, South Korean singer, model, and host
 * 1983 – Ronny Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player
 * 1983  – Carolina Klüft, Swedish heptathlete and jumper
 * 1983  – Jordin Tootoo, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1983  – Jason Vargas, American baseball player
 * 1983  – Vladimir Voskoboinikov, Estonian footballer
 * 1983  – Alex Westaway, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1984 – Brian Cage, American wrestler
 * 1984  – Chin-Lung Hu, Taiwanese baseball player
 * 1984  – Mao Miyaji, Japanese actress
 * 1984  – Rudi Wulf, New Zealand rugby player
 * 1985 – Morris Almond, American basketball player
 * 1985  – Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter
 * 1985  – Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor
 * 1985  – Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player
 * 1985  – Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer
 * 1986 – Gemma Arterton, English actress and singer
 * 1986  – Miwa Asao, Japanese volleyball player
 * 1987 – Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
 * 1987  – Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
 * 1987  – Faydee, Australian singer
 * 1987  – Athena Imperial, Filipino journalist, Miss Earth-Water 2011
 * 1987  – Mimi Page, American singer-songwriter and composer
 * 1987  – Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer
 * 1987  – Javon Ringer, American football player
 * 1987  – Jill Scott, English footballer
 * 1987  – Martin Spanjers, American actor and producer
 * 1988 – JuJu Chan, Hong Kong-American actress, martial artist, singer, and writer
 * 1988  – Zosia Mamet, American actress
 * 1988  – Brad Peacock, American baseball player
 * 1989 – Harrison Smith, American football player
 * 1989  – Southside, American record producer
 * 1991 – Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer
 * 1991  – Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
 * 1991  – Shohei Nanba, Japanese actor
 * 1992 – Lammtarra, American race horse (d. 2014)
 * 1992  – Joonas Tamm, Estonian footballer
 * 1993 – Bobby Decordova-Reid, English footballer
 * 1993  – Ravel Morrison, English footballer
 * 1994 – Caterina Bosetti, Italian volleyball player
 * 1995 – Paul Digby, English footballer
 * 1995  – Aleksander Jagiełło, Polish footballer
 * 1995  – Arfa Karim, Pakistani student and computer prodigy (d. 2012)
 * 1995  – Curtis Lazar, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1996 – Christian Dvorak, American ice hockey player
 * 1996  – Paul Mescal, Irish actor
 * 1996  – Harry Winks, English footballer
 * 1997 – Ellie Bamber, English actress
 * 1998 – Shiho Katō, Japanese singer and model
 * 1999 – Jeff Okudah, American football player
 * 2000 – Munetaka Murakami, Japanese baseball player
 * 2004 – Eleonore Caburet, French rhythmic gymnast

Pre-1600

 * 619 – Laurence of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint
 * 880 – Bruno, duke of Saxony
 * 1124 – Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1064)
 * 1218 – Konstantin of Rostov (b. 1186)
 * 1237 – Joan, Lady of Wales
 * 1250 – Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
 * 1294 – Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1229)
 * 1347 – Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln, was the bishop of Lincoln (b. 1282)
 * 1348 – Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk
 * 1416 – Racek Kobyla of Dvorce
 * 1435 – Joan II of Naples, Queen of Naples (b. 1371)
 * 1446 – Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (b. 1378)
 * 1448 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1372)
 * 1461 – Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty (b. c. 1400)
 * 1512 – Hatuey, Caribbean tribal chief
 * 1529 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian soldier and diplomat (b. 1478)
 * 1580 – Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1558)
 * 1594 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer and educator (b. 1525)

1601–1900

 * 1648 – George Abbot, English author and politician (b. 1603)
 * 1660 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans (b. 1608)
 * 1660  – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
 * 1661 – Lucas Holstenius, German geographer and historian (b. 1596)
 * 1675 – Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (b. 1594)
 * 1688 – Abraham Duquesne, French admiral (b. 1610)
 * 1704 – Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
 * 1712 – Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
 * 1714 – John Sharp, English archbishop (b. 1643)
 * 1723 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
 * 1768 – Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
 * 1769 – Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
 * 1798 – Ferdinand Ashmall, English centenarian, Catholic priest, died in 73rd year of his ministry (b. 1695)
 * 1802 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
 * 1804 – George Walton, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)
 * 1831 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (b. 1768)
 * 1836 – Letizia Ramolino, Italian noblewoman (b. 1750)
 * 1861 – Théophane Vénard, French Catholic missionary (b. 1829)
 * 1881 – Henry Parker, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1808)

1901–present

 * 1904 – Ernest Cashel, American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
 * 1904  – William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1841)
 * 1905 – Henri Germain, French banker and politician, founded Le Crédit Lyonnais (b. 1824)
 * 1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
 * 1909 – Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
 * 1913 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
 * 1918 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
 * 1919 – Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
 * 1925 – Antti Aarne, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)
 * 1925  – Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
 * 1926 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general and politician (b. 1848)
 * 1932 – Agha Petros, Assyrian general and politician (b. 1880)
 * 1939 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet (b. 1860)
 * 1939  – Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1879)
 * 1942 – Ado Birk, Estonian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1883)
 * 1942  – Daniil Kharms, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1905)
 * 1942  – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (b. 1876)
 * 1945 – Alfred Delp, German priest and philosopher (b. 1907)
 * 1945  – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German economist and politician (b. 1884)
 * 1945  – Johannes Popitz, German lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
 * 1948 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1870)
 * 1948  – Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist (b. 1894)
 * 1950 – Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician and academic (b. 1873)
 * 1952 – Callistratus of Georgia, Georgian patriarch (b. 1866)
 * 1954 – Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author and politician (b. 1886)
 * 1956 – Charley Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
 * 1956  – Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (b. 1878)
 * 1956  – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
 * 1957 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1890)
 * 1962 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
 * 1966 – Hacı Ömer Sabancı, Turkish businessman (b. 1906)
 * 1968 – Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director (b. 1878)
 * 1969 – Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
 * 1970 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898)
 * 1970  – Bertrand Russell, English mathematician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
 * 1970  – Hannah Ryggen, Norwegian textile artist (b. 1894)
 * 1972 – Natalie Clifford Barney, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
 * 1973 – Hendrik Elias, Belgian academic and politician, 9th Mayor of Ghent (b. 1902)
 * 1974 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1922)
 * 1975 – Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian and academic (b. 1883)
 * 1979 – Jim Burke, Australian cricketer (b. 1930)
 * 1979  – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (b. 1957)
 * 1980 – William Howard Stein, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * 1982 – Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
 * 1983 – Sam Chatmon, American singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
 * 1986 – Anita Cobby, Australian murder victim (b. 1959)
 * 1986  – Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
 * 1987 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
 * 1987  – Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist and screenwriter (b. 1922)
 * 1988 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
 * 1989 – Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater and coach (b. 1951)
 * 1989  – Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand minister and politician, 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (b. 1901)
 * 1990 – Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic (b. 1905)
 * 1990  – Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
 * 1992 – Bert Parks, American actor, singer, television personality; Miss America telecast presenter (b. 1914)
 * 1993 – François Reichenbach, French director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * 1994 – Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archeologist (b. 1921)
 * 1995 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (b. 1917)
 * 1995  – Fred Perry, English tennis player (b. 1909)
 * 1995  – Donald Pleasence, English-French actor (b. 1919)
 * 1996 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1912)
 * 1997 – Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
 * 1997  – Sanford Meisner, American actor and coach (b. 1904)
 * 1998 – Haroun Tazieff, German-French geologist and cinematographer (b. 1914)
 * 1999 – David McComb, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
 * 2002 – Paul Baloff, American singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
 * 2002  – Claude Brown, American author (b. 1937)
 * 2003 – Lou Harrison, American composer and educator (b. 1917)
 * 2004 – Bernard McEveety, American director and producer (b. 1924)
 * 2005 – Birgitte Federspiel, Danish actress (b. 1925)
 * 2005  – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
 * 2007 – Vijay Arora, Indian actor (b. 1944)
 * 2007  – Billy Henderson, American singer (b. 1939)
 * 2007  – Joe Hunter, American pianist (b. 1927)
 * 2007  – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
 * 2007  – Eric Von Schmidt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
 * 2007  – Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
 * 2008 – Barry Morse, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
 * 2008  – Katoucha Niane, Guinean model and author (b. 1960)
 * 2011 – Edward Amy, Canadian general (b. 1918)
 * 2011  – Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress (b. 1975)
 * 2011  – Margaret John, Welsh actress (b. 1926)
 * 2012 – Joyce Barkhouse, Canadian author (b. 1913)
 * 2012  – Frederick William Danker, American lexicographer and scholar (b. 1920)
 * 2012  – George Esper, American journalist and academic (b. 1932)
 * 2012  – Dorothy Gilman, American author (b. 1923)
 * 2012  – James F. Lloyd, American pilot and politician (b. 1922)
 * 2013 – Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (b. 1961)
 * 2013  – John Kerr, American actor and lawyer (b. 1931)
 * 2013  – Chris Kyle, American soldier and sniper (b. 1974)
 * 2013  – Lino Oviedo, Paraguayan general and politician (b. 1943)
 * 2013  – Pepper Paire, American baseball player (b. 1924)
 * 2013  – P. Shanmugam, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Puducherry (b. 1927)
 * 2013  – Walt Sweeney, American football player (b. 1941)
 * 2013  – Guy F. Tozzoli, American architect (b. 1922)
 * 2014 – Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (b. 1935)
 * 2014  – Tommy Aquino, American motorcycle racer (b. 1992)
 * 2014  – Nicholas Brooks, English historian (b. 1941)
 * 2014  – Eduardo Coutinho, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
 * 2014  – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1967)
 * 2014  – Luis Raúl, Puerto Rican comedian and actor (b. 1962)
 * 2014  – Bunny Rugs,  Jamaican singer (b. 1948)
 * 2014  – Nigel Walker, English footballer (b. 1959)
 * 2015 – Joseph Alfidi, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1949)
 * 2015  – Dave Bergman, American baseball player (b. 1953)
 * 2015  – Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1968)
 * 2015  – Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
 * 2015  – Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
 * 2015  – The Jacka, American rapper and producer (b. 1977)
 * 2016 – Bob Elliott, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
 * 2020 – Bernard Ebbers, Canadian businessman, the co-founder and CEO of WorldCom (b. 1941)
 * 2021 – Captain Sir Tom Moore, British Army officer and charity campaigner (b. 1920)
 * 2023 – K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * 2023  – Butch Miles, American jazz drummer (b. 1944)
 * 2024 – Don Murray, American actor (b. 1929)
 * 2024 – Carl Weathers, American football player and actor (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances

 * Groundhog Day
 * Anniversary of Treaty of Tartu (Estonia)
 * Christian Feast Day:
 * Adalbard
 * Cornelius the Centurion
 * Martyrs of Ebsdorf
 * February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Constitution Day (Philippines)
 * Day of Youth (Azerbaijan)
 * Earliest day on which Shrove Monday can fall, while March 8 is the latest; celebrated on Monday before Ash Wednesday (Christianity), and its related observances:
 * Bun Day (Iceland)
 * Fastelavn (Denmark/Norway)
 * Nickanan Night (Cornwall)
 * Rosenmontag (Germany)
 * Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple or Candlemas (Western Christianity), and its related observances:
 * A quarter day in the Christian liturgical calendar (due to Candlemas). (Scotland)
 * Celebration of Yemanja or Our Lady of Navigators (Candomblé)
 * Chandeleur (France)
 * Liichtmëssdag (Luxembourg)
 * Our Lady of the Candles (Filipino Catholics)
 * Virgin of Candelaria (Tenerife, Spain)
 * Victory of the Battle of Stalingrad (Russia)
 * World Wetlands Day

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February 3

Pre-1600

 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
 * 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
 * 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
 * 1509 – The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
 * 1583 – Battle of São Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil where three English warships led by navigator Edward Fenton fight off three Spanish galleons sinking one in the process.

1601–1900

 * 1637 – Tulip Mania collapses within the Dutch Republic.
 * 1639 – The House of Assembly of Barbados meets for the first time.
 * 1661 – Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind.
 * 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
 * 1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
 * 1716 – The 1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an 7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria.
 * 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
 * 1783 – Spain–United States relations are first established.
 * 1787 – Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
 * 1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
 * 1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
 * 1813 – José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
 * 1830 – The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
 * 1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
 * 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.

1901–present

 * 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
 * 1916 – The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of seven lives.
 * 1917 – World War I: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
 * 1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 ft long.
 * 1927 – A revolt against the military dictatorship of Portugal breaks out at Oporto.
 * 1930 – The Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
 * 1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
 * 1933 – Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Nazi foreign policy.
 * 1943 – The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
 * 1944 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
 * 1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
 * 1945  – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
 * 1953 – The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
 * 1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
 * 1959 – Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died.
 * 1959  – Sixty-five people are killed when American Airlines Flight 320 crashes into the East River on approach to LaGuardia Airport in New York City.
 * 1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
 * 1961 – The United States Air Force begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
 * 1966 – The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
 * 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
 * 1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
 * 1984 – Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
 * 1984  – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
 * 1989 – After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
 * 1989  – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
 * 1994 – Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.
 * 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
 * 1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
 * 2005 – One hundred five people are killed when Kam Air Flight 904 crashes in the Pamir Mountains in Afghanistan.
 * 2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
 * 2014 – Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.
 * 2023 – 2023 Ohio train derailment: A freight train containing vinyl chloride and other hazardous materials derails and burns in East Palestine, Ohio, United States, releasing hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air and contaminating the Ohio River.

Pre-1600

 * 1338 – Joanna of Bourbon (d. 1378)
 * 1393 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English nobleman and military commander (d. 1455)
 * 1428 – Helena Palaiologina, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1458)
 * 1478 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (d. 1521)
 * 1504 – Scipione Rebiba, Italian cardinal (d. 1577)

1601–1900

 * 1677 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect, designed the Karlova Koruna Chateau (d. 1723)
 * 1689 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (d. 1741)
 * 1721 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
 * 1736 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer and theorist (d. 1809)
 * 1747 – Samuel Osgood, American soldier and politician, 1st United States Postmaster General (d. 1813)
 * 1757 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (d. 1833)
 * 1763 – Caroline von Wolzogen, German author (d. 1847)
 * 1777 – John Cheyne, Scottish physician and author (d. 1836)
 * 1780 – Mihail G. Boiagi, Aromanian grammarian and professor (d. uncertain)
 * 1790 – Gideon Mantell, English scientist (d. 1852)
 * 1795 – Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia (d. 1830)
 * 1807 – Joseph E. Johnston, American general and politician (d. 1891)
 * 1809 – Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1847)
 * 1811 – Horace Greeley, American journalist and politician (d. 1872)
 * 1816 – Ram Singh Kuka, Indian credited with starting the Non-cooperation movement
 * 1815 – Edward James Roye, 5th President of Liberia (d. 1872)
 * 1817 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1881)
 * 1817  – Émile Prudent, French pianist and composer (d. 1864)
 * 1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician and educator (d. 1910)
 * 1824 – Ranald MacDonald, American explorer and educator (d. 1894)
 * 1826 – Walter Bagehot, English journalist and businessman (d. 1877)
 * 1830 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
 * 1840 – Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (d. 1911)
 * 1842 – Sidney Lanier, American composer and poet (d. 1881)
 * 1843 – William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian businessman (d. 1915)
 * 1857 – Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue (d. 1935)
 * 1859 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (d. 1935)
 * 1862 – James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge (d. 1946)
 * 1867 – Charles Henry Turner, American biologist, educator and zoologist (d. 1923)
 * 1872 – Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
 * 1874 – Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, (d. 1946)
 * 1878 – Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1943)
 * 1878  – Grigory Petrovsky, Ukrainian Soviet revolutionary and politician (d. 1958)
 * 1887 – Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet (d. 1914)
 * 1889 – Artur Adson, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1977)
 * 1889  – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (d. 1968)
 * 1889  – Risto Ryti, Finnish lawyer, politician and the Governor of the Bank of Finland; 5th President of Finland (d. 1956)
 * 1892 – Juan Negrín, Spanish physician and politician, 67th Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1956)
 * 1893 – Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1978)
 * 1894 – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (d. 1978)
 * 1898 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designed the Finlandia Hall and Aalto Theatre (d. 1976)
 * 1899 – Café Filho, Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th President of Brazil (d. 1970)
 * 1900 – Mabel Mercer, English-American singer (d. 1984)

1901–present

 * 1903 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier, pilot, and politician (d. 1973)
 * 1904 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
 * 1905 – Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic (d. 1990)
 * 1905  – Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986)
 * 1906 – George Adamson, Indian-English author and activist (d. 1989)
 * 1907 – James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist (d. 1997)
 * 1909 – André Cayatte, French lawyer and director (d. 1989)
 * 1909  – Simone Weil, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1943)
 * 1911 – Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
 * 1912 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (d. 1990)
 * 1914 – Mary Carlisle, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2018)
 * 1915 – Johannes Kotkas, Estonian wrestler and hammer thrower (d. 1998)
 * 1917 – Shlomo Goren, Polish-Israeli rabbi and general (d. 1994)
 * 1918 – Joey Bishop, American actor and producer (d. 2007)
 * 1918  – Helen Stephens, American runner, baseball player, and manager (d. 1994)
 * 1920 – Russell Arms, American actor and singer (d. 2012)
 * 1920  – Tony Gaze, Australian race car driver and pilot (d. 2013)
 * 1920  – Henry Heimlich, American physician and author (d. 2016)
 * 1924 – Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013)
 * 1924  – E. P. Thompson, English historian and author (d. 1993)
 * 1925 – Shelley Berman, American actor and comedian (d. 2017)
 * 1925  – John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005)
 * 1926 – Hans-Jochen Vogel, German lawyer and politician, 8th Mayor of Berlin (d. 2020)
 * 1927 – Kenneth Anger, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
 * 1927  – Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2003)
 * 1933 – Paul Sarbanes, American lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
 * 1934 – Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 * 1935 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American blues, soul, and funk singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
 * 1936 – Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (d. 1984)
 * 1936  – Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer and coach
 * 1937 – Billy Meier, Swiss author and photographer
 * 1938 – Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)
 * 1938  – Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer (d. 2013)
 * 1939 – Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
 * 1940 – Fran Tarkenton, American football player and sportscaster
 * 1941 – Dory Funk, Jr., American wrestler and trainer
 * 1941  – Howard Phillips, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
 * 1943 – Blythe Danner, American actress
 * 1943  – Dennis Edwards, American soul/R&B singer (d. 2018)
 * 1943  – Eric Haydock, English bass player (d. 2019)
 * 1943  – Shawn Phillips, American-South African singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1945 – Johnny Cymbal, Scottish-American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1993)
 * 1945  – Bob Griese, American football player and sportscaster
 * 1947 – Paul Auster, American novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2024)
 * 1947  – Dave Davies, English musician
 * 1947  – Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor and director
 * 1947  – Melanie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2024)
 * 1948 – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
 * 1948  – Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright (d. 2015)
 * 1949 – Jim Thorpe, American golfer
 * 1950 – Morgan Fairchild, American actress
 * 1950  – Pamela Franklin, Japanese-English actress
 * 1950  – Grant Goldman, Australian radio and television host (d. 2020)
 * 1951 – Arsène Auguste, Haitian footballer (d. 1993)
 * 1951  – Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian footballer and manager
 * 1951  – Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
 * 1952 – Fred Lynn, American baseball player and sportscaster
 * 1954 – Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 * 1956 – John Jefferson, American football player and coach
 * 1956  – Nathan Lane, American actor and comedian
 * 1956  – Lee Ranaldo, American musician and songwriter
 * 1957 – Eric Lander, American mathematician, geneticist, and academic
 * 1958 – Joe F. Edwards, Jr., American commander, pilot, and astronaut
 * 1958  – Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American economist
 * 1958  – Greg Mankiw, American economist and academic
 * 1959 – Thomas Calabro, American actor
 * 1959  – Lol Tolhurst, English musician and songwriter
 * 1959  – Óscar Iván Zuluaga, Colombian economist and politician, 67th Colombian Minister of Finance
 * 1960 – Marty Jannetty, American wrestler
 * 1960  – Joachim Löw, German footballer and manager
 * 1961 – Linda Eder, American singer and actress
 * 1962 – Michele Greene, American actress, singer, and author
 * 1963 – Vũ Đức Đam, Vietnamese politician
 * 1963  – Raghuram Rajan, Indian economist and academic
 * 1964 – Indrek Tarand, Estonian historian, journalist, and politician
 * 1965 – Manuel Loff, Portuguese politician
 * 1965  – Maura Tierney, American actress and producer
 * 1966 – Frank Coraci, American director and screenwriter
 * 1966  – Danny Morrison, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
 * 1967 – Tim Flowers, English footballer and coach
 * 1967  – Mixu Paatelainen, Finnish footballer and coach
 * 1968 – Vlade Divac, Serbian-American basketball player and sportscaster
 * 1968  – Marwan Khoury, Lebanese singer, songwriter, and composer
 * 1968  – František Kučera, Czech ice hockey player
 * 1969 – Beau Biden, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 44th Attorney General of Delaware (d. 2015)
 * 1969  – Retief Goosen, South African golfer
 * 1970 – Óscar Córdoba, Colombian footballer
 * 1970  – Warwick Davis, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1970  – Anthony Russo, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1971 – Elisa Donovan, American actress
 * 1971  – Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
 * 1971  – Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor
 * 1972 – Jesper Kyd, Danish pianist and composer
 * 1973 – Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist and producer
 * 1976 – Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1976  – Isla Fisher, Omani-Australian actress
 * 1976  – Tim Heidecker, American actor, comedian, and musician
 * 1976  – Eihi Shiina, Japanese fashion model and actress
 * 1977 – Maitland Ward, American actress and model
 * 1977  – Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer
 * 1977  – Marek Židlický, Czech ice hockey player
 * 1978 – Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer
 * 1978  – Amal Clooney, British-Lebanese barrister and activist
 * 1979 – Paul Franks, English cricketer and coach
 * 1982 – Becky Bayless, American wrestler
 * 1982  – Marie-Ève Drolet, Canadian speed skater
 * 1982  – Bridget Regan, American actress
 * 1984 – Elizabeth Holmes, American fraudster, founder of Theranos
 * 1984  – Matthew Moy, American actor
 * 1985 – Angela Fong, Canadian wrestler and actress
 * 1985  – Andrei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey player
 * 1986 – Lucas Duda, American baseball player
 * 1986  – Mathieu Giroux, Canadian speed skater
 * 1986  – Kanako Yanagihara, Japanese actress
 * 1987 – Elvana Gjata, Albanian singer
 * 1988 – Cho Kyu-hyun, South Korean singer
 * 1989 – Jia, Chinese singer and actress
 * 1989  – Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
 * 1990 – Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter
 * 1992 – Olli Aitola, Finnish ice hockey player
 * 1992  – James White, American football player
 * 1994 – Rougned Odor, Venezuelan baseball player
 * 1995 – Tao Tsuchiya, Japanese actress
 * 1998 – Tyler Huntley, American football player
 * 1998  – Isaiah Roby, American basketball player
 * 1999 – Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress
 * 2001 – Tre Mann, American basketball player
 * 2001  – Rhys Williams, English footballer
 * 2004 – Scoot Henderson, American basketball player

Pre-1600

 * 6 – Ping, emperor of the Han Dynasty (b. 9 BC)
 * 456 – Sihyaj Chan K'awiil II, ruler of Tikal
 * 639 – K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I, ruler of Piedras Negras
 * 699 – Werburgh, English nun and saint
 * 865 – Ansgar, Frankish archbishop (b. 801)
 * 929 – Guy, margrave of Tuscany
 * 938 – Zhou Ben, Chinese general (b. 862)
 * 994 – William IV, duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
 * 1014 – Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and England (b. 960)
 * 1116 – Coloman, king of Hungary
 * 1161 – Inge I, king of Norway (b. 1135)
 * 1252 – Sviatoslav III, Russian Grand Prince (b. 1196)
 * 1399 – John of Gaunt, Belgian-English politician, Lord High Steward (b. 1340)
 * 1428 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1386)
 * 1451 – Murad II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1404)
 * 1468 – Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher, invented the printing press (b. 1398)
 * 1475 – John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (b. 1410)
 * 1537 – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (b. 1513)
 * 1566 – George Cassander, Flemish theologian and author (b. 1513)

1601–1900

 * 1618 – Philip II, duke of Pomerania (b. 1573)
 * 1619 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1564)
 * 1737 – Tommaso Ceva, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1648)
 * 1802 – Pedro Rodríguez, Spanish statesman and economist (b. 1723)
 * 1813 – Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
 * 1820 – Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
 * 1832 – George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
 * 1862 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
 * 1866 – François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
 * 1873 – Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
 * 1899 – Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Dutch supercentenarian (b. 1788)

1901–present

 * 1922 – Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
 * 1922  – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
 * 1924 – Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
 * 1929 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
 * 1935 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
 * 1944 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
 * 1945 – Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
 * 1947 – Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)
 * 1952 – Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874)
 * 1955 – Vasily Blokhin, Russian general (b. 1895)
 * 1956 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and academic (b. 1871)
 * 1956  – Johnny Claes, English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player (b. 1916)
 * 1959 – The Day the Music Died
 * The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1930)
 * Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
 * Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
 * 1960 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
 * 1961 – William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Scottish-Australian captain and politician, 14th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1893)
 * 1961  – Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
 * 1963 – Benjamin R. Jacobs, American biochemist (b. 1879)
 * 1967 – Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
 * 1969 – C. N. Annadurai, Indian journalist and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Madras State (b. 1909)
 * 1969  – Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambican activist and academic (b. 1920)
 * 1975 – William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer (b. 1873)
 * 1975  – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1904)
 * 1985 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
 * 1989 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
 * 1989  – Lionel Newman, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1916)
 * 1991 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
 * 1993 – Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1927)
 * 1996 – Audrey Meadows, American actress and banker (b. 1922)
 * 1999 – Gwen Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1950)
 * 2005 – Zurab Zhvania, Georgian biologist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
 * 2005  – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (b. 1904)
 * 2006 – Al Lewis, American actor and activist (b. 1923)
 * 2009 – Sheng-yen, Chinese monk and scholar, founded the Dharma Drum Mountain (b. 1930)
 * 2010 – Dick McGuire, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
 * 2010  – Frances Reid, American actress (b. 1914)
 * 2011 – Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
 * 2012 – Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean academic and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1921)
 * 2012  – Ben Gazzara, American actor and director (b. 1930)
 * 2012  – Terence Hildner, American general (b. 1962)
 * 2012  – Raj Kanwar, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1961)
 * 2012  – Zalman King, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1942)
 * 2012  – Andrzej Szczeklik, Polish physician and academic (b. 1938)
 * 2013 – Cardiss Collins, American politician (b. 1931)
 * 2013  – Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer (b. 1921)
 * 2013  – James Muri, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
 * 2013  – Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (b. 1954)
 * 2015 – Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (b. 1936)
 * 2015  – Mary Healy, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
 * 2015  – Charlie Sifford, American golfer (b. 1922)
 * 2015  – Nasim Hasan Shah, Pakistani lawyer and judge, 12th Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1929)
 * 2016 – Joe Alaskey, American actor (b. 1952)
 * 2016  – Balram Jakhar, Indian lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Madhya Pradesh (b. 1923)
 * 2016  – József Kasza, Serbian politician and economist (b. 1945)
 * 2017 – Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet, writer and politician (b. 1931)
 * 2019 – Julie Adams, American actress (b. 1926)
 * 2019  – Kristoff St. John, American actor (b. 1966)
 * 2020 – George Steiner, French-American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Aaron the Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox Church)
 * Ansgar
 * Berlinda of Meerbeke
 * Blaise
 * Celsa and Nona
 * Claudine Thévenet
 * Dom Justo Takayama (Philippines and Japan)
 * Hadelin
 * Margaret of England
 * Werburgh
 * February 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Day of the Virgin of Suyapa (Honduras)
 * Earliest day on which Shrove Tuesday can fall, while March 9 is the latest; celebrated on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (Christianity)
 * Four Chaplains Day (United States, also considered a Feast Day by the Episcopal Church)
 * Communist Party of Vietnam Foundation Anniversary (Vietnam)
 * Day of Finnish architecture and design, birthday of Alvar Aalto (Finland)
 * Heroes' Day (Mozambique)
 * Martyrs' Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
 * Setsubun (Japan)
 * Veterans' Day (Thailand)

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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is an online, searchable, encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects.

History
FOLDOC was founded in 1985 by Denis Howe and was hosted by Imperial College London. In May 2015, the site was updated to state that it was "no longer supported by Imperial College Department of Computing". Howe has served as the editor-in-chief since the dictionary's inception, with visitors to the website able to make suggestions for additions or corrections to articles.

Open sourcing
The dictionary incorporates the text of other free resources, such as the Jargon File, as well as covering many other computing-related topics. Due to its availability under the GNU Free Documentation License, a copyleft license, it has in turn been incorporated in whole or part into other free content projects, such as Wikipedia.

Recognition

 * This site's brief 2001 review by a Ziff Davis publication begins "Despite this online dictionary’s pale user interface, it offers impressive functionality."
 * Oxford University Press knows of them, and notes that it "is maintained by volunteers."
 * A university tells its students that FOLDOC can be used to find information about "companies, projects, history, in fact any of the vocabulary you might expect to find in a computer dictionary."

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Wikipedia:Status of FOLDOC import

This is a title index of all the entries at the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which we have been given permission to use. This page is to keep track of what has been incorporated into Wikipedia. Anyone who wants to help, jump right in. As entries are imported, simply add DONE after the link.

symbols - B -- C - D -- E - H -- I - K -- L - N -- O - Q -- R - S -- T - W -- X - Z

A few notes:
 * Many entries will have to be renamed, such as number-only titles (since we generally reserve number entries for years). For example, 8086 becomes Intel 8086. Also titles that clash with non-computing subjects will need new names.

 * Some entries we won't need or want to import (we might already have the information in an article, for example). In these cases, the entry should be marked as NO IMPORT, and the reason given. In particular there are thousands of entries from the Jargon File, most of which do not make encyclopedia articles.

 * Many articles contain outdated information, especially note about technologies that were superseded, companies whose ownership has changed, etc. As a general principle, never do data dump.

 * Generally, acronyms should be expanded. For example, the ISA article should be found at Industry Standard Architecture, rather than pointing to ISA the disambiguation page. Many entries occur twice e.g., TCP and Transmission control protocol -- one should redirect to the other as appropriate.  Also, you may update the existing list of computing abbreviations.

 * If an article already exists on a given topic but the FOLDOC entry has information that we don't, it should be integrated with our article, rather than tacked onto the end. If our article and the FOLDOC one contradict each other, mention the contradiction on the appropriate Talk page so it can be discussed.

 * When importing a full entry, or integrating it with one of our current entries, it would be good to leave a note similar to this at the bottom, though FOLDOC's editor, Denis Howe, doesn't require it:

 * This article was originally based on material from FOLDOC, used with permission. Update as needed.

 * Alternatively, the message template may be used to incorporate an appropriate message.

 * New entries and changes appear on FOLDOC from time to time at http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/new.html

See also: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Mirrors
These are FOLDOC mirrors, which may not be up-to-date:
 * http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/
 * http://www.nue.org/foldoc/
 * http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc/
 * http://foldoc.linuxguruz.org/

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Association Control Service Element Association for Computational Linguistics Association for Computing Association for Computing Machinery Association for Progressive Communications Association for SIMULA Users Association Française des Utilisateurs d'Unix Association of American Publishers Association of C and C++ Users Association of Lisp Users associative array associative memory Associative Memory Parallel Processing Language AST ASTAP AST Computers, LLC asterisk asterix Astral AST Research, Inc. asymmetrical modulation Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop asynchronous Asynchronous Balanced Mode Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter asynchronous logic Asynchronous Transfer Mode asyncronous AT DONE at AT-3 ATA ATA-2 ATA-4 ATAPI Atari DONE AT Attachment AT Attachment Packet Interface AT bus architecture -- DONE AtFS Athena Atherton Technology Athlon ATIS ATK ATLAS Atlas Autocode ATM ATM Forum ATMP atob ATOLL atomic A Tools Integration Standard ATRAC ATS at sign AT&T Attachment Unit Interface AT&T Bell Labs atto- attoparsec attribute Attributed File System Attribute Translation System ATX au aubergine audio audiographics audiographic teleconferencing Audio IFF AudioOne Audio Processing Technology Audio Video Interleave Augmented Backus-Naur Form AUI A'UM AUP Aurora Austin Kyoto Common Lisp authentication authoring autobaud autobogotiphobia AutoCAD Autocode AUTOCODER Autodesk, Inc. AUTOEXEC.BAT AUTOGRAF AUTOGRP Auto Idle AutoLISP -- DONE autoloader automagically automata automata theory Automated Engineering Design AUTOmated GRouPing system Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation automated testing AUTOMATH Automatically Programmed Tools automatic baud rate detection automatic hyphenation Automatic Mathematical TRANslation Automatic Network Routing Automatic Number Identification Automatic Repeat Request Automatic Send Receive Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator automation Automatische Rechenplanfertigung automaton Automatrix, Inc. Autonomous System Autonomous System Number Autopass autoprojector AUTO-PROMPT Autostat autostereogram A/UX auxiliary storage av availability Avalon/C++ Avalon/Common LISP avatar average seek time AVI Avon AVS aw AWE AWG awk AWT aXe AXIOM axiom AXIOM* Axiomatic Architecture Description Language axiomatic semantics axiomatic set theory Axiom of Choice Axiom of Comprehension AXLE ayacc AYT az AZERTY B b B-0 B1FF B1 security B2B B2 security B3 security b4 ba Baan Babbage ]Babbage, Charles babbling error BABEL BABT Baby AT BABYLON BACAIC Bachman Bachman Information Systems backbone backbone cabal backbone site back door back-end Back End Generator Back End Generator Language backgammon background backing store back link backoff BackOffice back-propagation back quote backside cache backslash backtick backtracking backup backup pumpkin Backus-Naur Form Backus Normal Form backward analysis backward chaining backward compatibility backward compatible backwards compatibility backwards compatible BAD Bad command or file name Bad Thing bag on the side BAL balanced computing balanced tree BALGOL BALITAC BALM balun bamf Banach algebra Banach inverse mapping theorem Banach space Banach-Tarski paradox banana label banana problem bandwidth bang bang on bang path banner Banyan BAP BAPI bar bar code bare metal barf barfmail barfulation barfulous barney Baroque baroque barrel shifter -- DONE base base 64 baseband base class baseline base memory basename Base Technology bash BASIC Basic Assembly Language BASIC AUTOCODER Basic COBOL Basic Encoding Rules Basic Fortran Basic Input/Output System Basic JOVIAL Basic Language for Implementation of System Software Basic Multilingual Plane Basic Object System Basic Operating System Basic Programming Support Basic Rate Interface BASIC V Bastard Operator From Hell bastion host batch file batch processing bathtub curve baud baud barf Baudot Baudotbetical order Baudot code baud rate bawk bay baz bb BBC BBC Microcomputer BBC Networking Club BBL BBN bboard BBS BC BCBF BCC BCD BCL BC NELIAC BCNU BCPL BCS bd BDC BDL BDPA be BEA beam beamer beam search bean beanie key bearer channel bear paw Beats the shit outa me BeBOP BeBox BEDO Bedrock beep beeper BEG @Begin egin BEGL beige toaster Be Inc BEL belief revision BELL Bell bell Bell 103 Bell Communications Research, Inc Bellcore bell curve Bell Laboratories Bell Labs bells and whistles bells, whistles, and gongs benchmark Bend Over, Here It Comes Again Benoit B. Mandelbrot Benoit Mandelbrot Bentley Systems, Inc. BeOS BER Berkeley Berkeley 4.2 Berkeley EDIF200 Berkeley FP Berkeley Internet Name Domain Berkeley Logo Berkeley Network Berkeley Quality Software Berkeley Software Design, Inc Berkeley Softworks Berkeley System Distribution Berkeley Unix Berkeley Yacc berklix Berners-Lee, Tim Bernoulli Box Bernoulli principle Bernstein condition BERR Bertrand Bertrand Meyer Bertrand Russell Berzerkeley Berzerkley best effort best first search Best Fit BETA beta beta abstraction beta conversion Betamaxed beta reduction beta testing beta version Bezier Bezier curve Bezier surface bf BFI bg bgh BGP bh BHC Code bi bib bible BIBOP BibTeX BiCapitalisation BiCMOS bidirectional printing Bidouilleurs Sans Argent bi-endian BIFF biff ig Big bag of pages big blue big-endian Big Gray Wall big iron BIG-LAN Bigloo bignum bigot Big Red Switch Big Room big win bijection Bill Gates Bill Joy binaries binary Binary Coded Decimal Binary Compatibility Standard binary counter binary exponential backoff binary file binary large object binary package binary search Binary Synchronous Transmission -- DONE binary tree BIND bindery binding handle binding-time analysis BinHex Binhex 4.0 BinProlog BIOR BIOS BIP bipartite graph bipolar bipolar transistor BIPS Bird-Meertens Formalism Birds Of a Feather BISDN Bison Bison++ BIST bisync bit bit bang bit bashing bitblt bit bucket bit decay bit diddling bite bitmap bitmap display bitmap font bitmapped display bit mask BITNET bitonal image bit-paired keyboard bit pattern bit plane bit-robbing bit rot bit slice bits per inch bits per pixel bits per second bit string bit stuffing bit twiddling bitty box bitwise bitwise complement bixie bj Bjarne Stroustrup BJC4000 black art black box black-box testing Black Data Processing Associates black hole black magic blargh blast blat BLAZE BLAZE 2 bleam bleeper bletcherous Bletchley Park Blind Carbon Copy B-LINE blinkenlights BLISS BLISS-10 BLISS-11 BLISS-32 blit blitter blivet bloat bloatware BLOB block Block Diagram Compiler blocked records Block Redundancy Check Block Started by Symbol block transfer computations Bloggs Family, the Blosim blow an EPROM blow away blowing your buffer blow out blow past blow up BLOX BLT Blue Blue Book Blue Box Blue Glue Blue Screen of Death Blue Screen of Life Blue Sky Software Bluetooth blue wire blurgle bm BMAN BMASF BMDP B-Method BMF BMP bmp BMWF bn BNC BNF BNR Pascal BNR Prolog bo boa board boat anchor Bob Bobo the Webmonkey BOCS Boehm B. BOEING BOF BOFH bogometer BogoMips bogon bogon filter bogon flux bogosity bogo-sort bogotify bogue out bogus BOHICA Bohr bug boink BOLERO Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. bomb bon bondage-and-discipline language bonk/oif Booch method -- DONE bookmark Bookreader book titles Bookviewer bool Boolean Boolean algebra Boolean logic Boolean search Boole, George Booster boot boot block boot disk BOOTP bootstrap bootstrap loader boot virus Border Gateway Protocol borf Borland International, Inc. BOS Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem Code BOSS bot botmaster bottom bottom feeder bottom-unique bottom-up implementation bottom-up model bottom-up testing botwar bounce bounce message boundary scan boundary value analysis bounded boundedly complete bound variable bournebasic Bourne shell boustrophedonic box boxed comments boxen Boxer boxology Boycott Apple bozotic BPI bpmake bpp BPR BPS BQS br brace bracket bracket abstraction braille braille display Braille embosser Braille printer Brain Aid Prolog brain-damaged brain-dead brain dump brain fart braino branch Branch and Hang branch coverage testing branch delay slot -- DONE Branch on Chip Box Full branch prediction Branch Target Buffer branch to Fishkill Brazil BRB bread crumbs breadth first search break break-even point breakpoint breath-of-life packet breedle BRH BRI Brian Reid BRIDGE bridge Bridgetalk briefcase brightness Brilliant bring X to its knees British Broadcasting Corporation British Library Method British Standards Institute British Telecom British Telecom Research Laboratories brittle broadband broadcast broadcast quality video broadcast storm Broadway brochureware -- DONE broken broken arrow broker broket Brooks's Law brouter Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem Brown and Sharpe Wire Gauge brown paper bag bug browser BRS BRUIN brute force brute force and ignorance brute force attack BS bs BS2000 BSA BSD BSD386 BSDI BSD/OS BSD Unix BSI BSL BSOD BSOL BSOM BSP method BSRAM BSS BST bt BTB btoa B-Toolkit BTOS B-tree Btrieve - largely done, still more to go however. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:50, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) Btrieve Technologies, Inc. - DONE redirected to Btrieve BTRL BTW BUAF BUAG bubble memory bubble sort bucky bits buffer buffered write-through buffer overflow bug bug-compatible bug fix bug fix release bug-for-bug compatible buglix BUGSYS built-in Built-in Self Test Bull bulletin board bulletin board system bulletproof Bull Information Systems bum bump burble Burge's Language buried treasure burn-in burn-in period Burroughs Corporation Burst EDO Burst Extended Data Out DRAM burst page Burst Static Random Access Memory bus bus error Bush, Vannevar Business Application Programming Interface Business Process Re-engineering Business Software Alliance business to business bus master bus mastering bus network Busy Beaver busy-loop busy-wait Butterfly Common LISP Butterfly Scheme button buzz bv bw bwBASIC BWQ by byacc by hand Byte byte byte-code byte-code compiler byte-code interpreter byte compiler bytesexual Byzantine bz bzzzt, wrong

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