| 17041 | February 13 | Event | 2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". |
| 17042 | February 13 | Event | 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
| 17043 | February 13 | Event | 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. |
| 17044 | February 13 | Event | 2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. |
| 17045 | February 13 | Event | 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. |
| 17046 | February 13 | Event | 2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. |
| 17047 | February 13 | Event | 2013 – A plane crash kills five people and injures nine others in Donetsk, Ukraine. |
| 17048 | February 13 | Birth | 711 BC – Emperor Jimmu of Japan (d. 585 BC) |
| 17049 | February 13 | Birth | 1457 – Mary of Burgundy (d. 1482) |
| 17050 | February 13 | Birth | 1480 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (d. 1542) |
| 17051 | February 13 | Birth | 1539 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (d. 1582) |
| 17052 | February 13 | Birth | 1599 – Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667) |
| 17053 | February 13 | Birth | 1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (d. 1731) |
| 17054 | February 13 | Birth | 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (d. 1754) |
| 17055 | February 13 | Birth | 1719 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral (d. 1792) |
| 17056 | February 13 | Birth | 1721 – John Reid, Scottish general (d. 1807) |
| 17057 | February 13 | Birth | 1728 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (d. 1793) |
| 17058 | February 13 | Birth | 1766 – Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar (d. 1834) |
| 17059 | February 13 | Birth | 1768 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (d. 1835) |
| 17060 | February 13 | Birth | 1769 – Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1844) |
| 17061 | February 13 | Birth | 1805 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (d. 1859) |
| 17062 | February 13 | Birth | 1811 – François Achille Bazaine, French general (d. 1888) |
| 17063 | February 13 | Birth | 1831 – John Aaron Rawlins, American general and politician, 29th United States Secretary of War (d. 1869) |
| 17064 | February 13 | Birth | 1834 – Heinrich Caro, Polish-German chemist and academic (d. 1910) |
| 17065 | February 13 | Birth | 1835 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader (d. 1908) |
| 17066 | February 13 | Birth | 1837 - Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer (d. 1914) |
| 17067 | February 13 | Birth | 1846 – Konrad Koch, German football pioneer (d. 1911) |
| 17068 | February 13 | Birth | 1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1895) |
| 17069 | February 13 | Birth | 1849 – Wilhelm Voigt German criminal (d. 1922) |
| 17070 | February 13 | Birth | 1855 – Paul Deschanel, Belgian-French politician, 11th President of France (d. 1922) |