February 1st
1462 - Birth of Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer
1761 - Birth of Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist
1897 - Death of Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist
1903 - Death of George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist
1958 - Death of Clinton Davisson, American physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate
1970 - Death of Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician
1976 - Death of Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate
1976 - Death of George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel Prize Laureate
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing seven astronauts.
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February 28th
1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
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1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer
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1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
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