| 13081 | February 2 | Birth | 1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German author and critic (d. 1766) |
| 13082 | February 2 | Birth | 1711 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (d. 1794) |
| 13083 | February 2 | Birth | 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer (d. 1785) |
| 13084 | February 2 | Birth | 1717 – Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790) |
| 13085 | February 2 | Birth | 1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1838) |
| 13086 | February 2 | Birth | 1782 – Henri de Rigny, French admiral and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1835) |
| 13087 | February 2 | Birth | 1786 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1856) |
| 13088 | February 2 | Birth | 1802 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (d. 1887) |
| 13089 | February 2 | Birth | 1803 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (d. 1862) |
| 13090 | February 2 | Birth | 1829 – Alfred Brehm, German zoologist and illustrator (d. 1884) |
| 13091 | February 2 | Birth | 1829 – William Stanley, English engineer and philanthropist (d. 1909) |
| 13092 | February 2 | Birth | 1841 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and hydrologist (d. 1912) |
| 13093 | February 2 | Birth | 1842 – Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1927) |
| 13094 | February 2 | Birth | 1849 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (d. 1921) |
| 13095 | February 2 | Birth | 1851 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican illustrator and engraver (d. 1913) |
| 13096 | February 2 | Birth | 1860 – Curtis Guild, Jr., American journalist and politician, 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915) |
| 13097 | February 2 | Birth | 1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949) |
| 13098 | February 2 | Birth | 1862 – Émile Coste, French fencer (d. 1927) |
| 13099 | February 2 | Birth | 1866 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and academic (d. 1927) |
| 13100 | February 2 | Birth | 1872 – Clara Butt, English contralto (d. 1936) |
| 13101 | February 2 | Birth | 1873 – Leo Fall, Austrian composer (d. 1925) |
| 13102 | February 2 | Birth | 1873 – Konstantin von Neurath, German politician and diplomat, 13th German Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1956) |
| 13103 | February 2 | Birth | 1875 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (d. 1962) |
| 13104 | February 2 | Birth | 1878 – Joe Lydon, American boxer and soccer player (d. 1937) |
| 13105 | February 2 | Birth | 1880 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969) |
| 13106 | February 2 | Birth | 1881 – Orval Overall, American baseball player and manager (d. 1947) |
| 13107 | February 2 | Birth | 1882 – Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (d. 1944) |
| 13108 | February 2 | Birth | 1882 – James Joyce, Irish author and poet (d. 1941) |
| 13109 | February 2 | Birth | 1883 – Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter, created Zorro (d. 1958) |
| 13110 | February 2 | Birth | 1886 – William Rose Benét, American poet and author (d. 1950) |