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1924 – 2024Roger Guillemin (1924-2024)Died 21 February 2024, aged 100French-born American physiologist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on brain hormones.
1926 – 2024Bernard Kops (1926-2024)Died 25 February 2024, aged 97English playwright, novelist and poet of the postwar London Jewish East End.
1929 – 2024Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929-2024)Died 28 February 2024, aged 94Soviet politician who was premier of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991.
1931 – 2024Paolo Taviani (1931-2024)Died 29 February 2024, aged 92Italian filmmaker who with his brother Vittorio combined Neorealism with modernist storytelling.
1935 – 2024Seiji Ozawa (1935-2024)Died 6 February 2024, aged 88Japanese conductor of exceptional energy who led the Boston Symphony for nearly three decades.
1939 – 2024Brian Mulroney (1939-2024)Died 29 February 2024, aged 84Canadian politician who was prime minister from 1984 to 1993 and negotiated the free trade agreement with the United States.
1941 – 2024Hage Geingob (1941-2024)Died 4 February 2024, aged 82Namibian politician who was president from 2014 until his death and had earlier served twice as prime minister.
1947 – 2024Richard Lewis (1947-2024)Died 27 February 2024, aged 76American comedian and actor whose anxious stand-up persona carried over into Curb Your Enthusiasm.
1947 – 2024John Bruton (1947-2024)Died 6 February 2024, aged 76Irish politician who served as taoiseach from 1994 to 1997.
1948 – 2024Carl Weathers (1948-2024)Died 1 February 2024, aged 76American footballer turned actor, best known as Apollo Creed in the Rocky films.
1948 – 2024Wayne Kramer (1948-2024)Died 2 February 2024, aged 75American musician who co-founded the MC5, one of the most influential proto-punk bands.
1949 – 2024Sebastian Pinera (1949-2024)Died 6 February 2024, aged 74Chilean businessman and politician who served two terms as president of Chile.
1961 – 2024Toby Keith (1961-2024)Died 5 February 2024, aged 62American country singer whose hits included Should've Been a Cowboy and Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.
1976 – 2024Alexei Navalny (1976-2024)Died 16 February 2024, aged 47Russian anti-corruption activist and the most prominent domestic critic of Vladimir Putin. He died in an Arctic penal colony.
2024Dell joins S&P 500Dell Technologies is added to the S&P 500 index in February 2024 — triggering billions in index fund buying and pushing Dell's stock to record highs. Dell's position as a primary channel for Nvidia AI servers, combined with its dominant share of enterprise storage and server markets, makes it one of the clearest beneficiaries of the AI infrastructure buildout. Michael Dell's $1,000 dorm-room startup is now worth over $50 billion.
2024TSMC Japan fab opens — KumamotoTSMC opens its first Japanese fab in Kumamoto, Japan in February 2024 — a joint venture with Sony and Denso producing 12nm and 16nm chips for Japanese automotive and consumer electronics customers. The Kumamoto fab is Japan's most advanced semiconductor facility in decades and a centrepiece of Japan's semiconductor revival strategy. A second Kumamoto fab at 6nm and 7nm is under construction. TSMC's geographic diversification strategy reflects geopolitical pressure to move some production outside Taiwan.
2024Hospitalised in MalaysiaHospitalised with an infection while on holiday on the island of Langkawi in Malaysia in February 2024. Had a heart pacemaker surgically implanted later that year. Despite his declining health, he repeatedly refused to abdicate.
2024Joni Mitchell performs at the GrammysBoth Sides NowHer first ever Grammys performance, aged 80.
2024Odysseus makes the first commercial Moon landingIntuitive Machines reaches the lunar south pole regionIntuitive Machines' Odysseus lander touched down near the lunar south pole on 22 February 2024, the first commercial spacecraft to land on the Moon and the first American craft to do so since 1972.
2024Star Trek: Prodigy — Season 2After being cancelled by Paramount+ and rescued by Netflix, Prodigy's second season — 20 episodes — completes the first arc and delivers an emotionally satisfying conclusion to the young crew's journey. The season finale connects to other areas of the franchise with notable cameos.