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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 28th of February 0870 | EVENT | The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. |
| 28th of February 1638 | EVENT | The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh. |
| 28th of February 1700 | EVENT | Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar. |
| 28th of February 1710 | EVENT | In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under J?rgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. |
| 28th of February 1784 | EVENT | John Wesley charters the Methodist Church. |
| 28th of February 1827 | EVENT | The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. |
| 28th of February 1838 | EVENT | Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec) |
| 28th of February 1844 | EVENT | A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members. |
| 28th of February 1849 | EVENT | Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. |
| 28th of February 1854 | EVENT | The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. |
| 28th of February 1870 | EVENT | The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 28th of February 1883 | EVENT | The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 28th of February 1885 | EVENT | The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.) |
| 28th of February 1893 | EVENT | The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched. |
| 28th of February 1897 | EVENT | Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force. |
| 28th of February 1900 | EVENT | The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted. |
| 28th of February 1914 | EVENT | The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokaster, by the Greeks living in southern Albania. |
| 28th of February 1922 | EVENT | The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. |
| 28th of February 1928 | EVENT | C.V. Raman discovers Raman effect. |
| 28th of February 1933 | EVENT | Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. |
| 28th of February 1935 | EVENT | DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon. |
| 28th of February 1939 | EVENT | The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. |
| 28th of February 1940 | EVENT | Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). |
| 28th of February 1942 | EVENT | The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men. |
| 28th of February 1947 | EVENT | 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives. |
| 28th of February 1953 | EVENT | James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). |
| 28th of February 1954 | EVENT | The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public. |
| 28th of February 1958 | EVENT | A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history. |
| 28th of February 1959 | EVENT | Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. |
| 28th of February 1972 | EVENT | Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communique. |
| 28th of February 1975 | EVENT | A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people. |
| 28th of February 1980 | EVENT | Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum. |
| 28th of February 1985 | EVENT | The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. |
| 28th of February 1986 | EVENT | Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm. |
| 28th of February 1991 | EVENT | The first Gulf War ends. |
| 28th of February 1993 | EVENT | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff. |
| 28th of February 1997 | EVENT | An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths. |
| 28th of February 1997 | EVENT | An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills around 1,100 people |
| 28th of February 1997 | EVENT | The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators. |
| 28th of February 1997 | EVENT | GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way. |
| 28th of February 1998 | EVENT | First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace. |
| 28th of February 1998 | EVENT | Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. |
| 28th of February 2001 | EVENT | The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington. |
| 28th of February 2001 | EVENT | Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash. |
| 28th of February 2004 | EVENT | Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947 |
| 28th of February 2005 | EVENT | A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127. |
| 28th of February 1155 | BIRTHDAY | Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183) |
| 28th of February 1261 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283) |
| 28th of February 1533 | BIRTHDAY | Michel de Montaigne, French writer (d. 1592) |
| 28th of February 1552 | BIRTHDAY | Joost Burgi, Swiss clockmaker (d. 1632) |
| 28th of February 1573 | BIRTHDAY | Elias Holl, German Architect (d. 1646) |
| 28th of February 1612 | BIRTHDAY | John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686) |
| 28th of February 1670 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737) |
| 28th of February 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726) |
| 28th of February 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, French scientist (d. 1757) |
| 28th of February 1704 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760) |
| 28th of February 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759) |
| 28th of February 1724 | BIRTHDAY | George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807) |
| 28th of February 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (d. 1882) |
| 28th of February 1820 | BIRTHDAY | John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914) |
| 28th of February 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892) |
| 28th of February 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Blondin, French tightrope walker (d. 1897) |
| 28th of February 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913) |
| 28th of February 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Levy, French engineer (d. 1910) |
| 28th of February 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892) |
| 28th of February 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914) |
| 28th of February 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923) |
| 28th of February 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (d. 1940) |
| 28th of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929) |
| 28th of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952) |
| 28th of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967) |
| 28th of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Vasconcelos, Mexican writer (d. 1959) |
| 28th of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Padraic O Conaire, Irish writer (d. 1928) |
| 28th of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Hecht, American playwright (d. 1964) |
| 28th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director (d. 1974) |
| 28th of February 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965) |
| 28th of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959) |
| 28th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994) |
| 28th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986) |
| 28th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947) |
| 28th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (d. 1988) |
| 28th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005) |
| 28th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002) |
| 28th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Spender, English poet (d. 1995) |
| 28th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Otakar Vavra, Czech film director |
| 28th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945) |
| 28th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ketti Frings, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1981) |
| 28th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Zero Mostel, American actor (d. 1977) |
| 28th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987) |
| 28th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (d. 1984) |
| 28th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist |
| 28th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 2007) |
| 28th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Burke, British actor (d. 2011) |
| 28th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006) |
| 28th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Howard, British film actress (d. 2010) |
| 28th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Durning, American actor |
| 28th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Harry H Corbett, English actor (d. 1982) |
| 28th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin |
| 28th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Hayden Fry, American football coach |
| 28th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect |
| 28th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Rouleau, Canadian bass opera singer |
| 28th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John Montague, Irish poet |
| 28th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Dawe, Australian poet |
| 28th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 28th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Smith, American basketball coach |
| 28th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin MacLeod, American actor |
| 28th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Don Francks, Canadian actor |
| 28th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (d. 1989) |
| 28th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Miro Sterzaj, Slovenian 9-pin bowler |
| 28th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Rein Taagepera, Estonian politician |
| 28th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Foge Fazio, American college football coach (d. 2009) |
| 28th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Chogyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist meditation instructor (d. 1987) |
| 28th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Tune, American dancer |
| 28th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 28th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Andretti, Italian-American race car driver |
| 28th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Joe South, American singer |
| 28th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Bonner, American actor |
| 28th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dino Zoff, Italian footballer |
| 28th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969) |
| 28th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Acklin, American soul singer (d. 1998) |
| 28th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Bernstein, American composer |
| 28th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sepp Maier, German footballer |
| 28th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Win Aung, Burmese politician |
| 28th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Bishop, American actress |
| 28th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bubba Smith, American football player and actor |
| 28th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005) |
| 28th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Beacham, English actress |
| 28th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Figgis, English director |
| 28th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 28th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mercedes Ruehl, American actress |
| 28th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer |
| 28th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ilene Graff, American actress and singer |
| 28th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 1998) |
| 28th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | William Finn, American composer |
| 28th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian racing driver |
| 28th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Steamboat, American professional wrestler |
| 28th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Krugman, American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 28th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Billick, American football coach |
| 28th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian |
| 28th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Dantley, American basketball player |
| 28th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Maddin, Canadian film director |
| 28th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-born Northern Irish footballer |
| 28th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator |
| 28th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996) |
| 28th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John Turturro, American actor |
| 28th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Wilson, American singer (The B-52's) |
| 28th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef |
| 28th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Abramoff, American political figure and convict |
| 28th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ginette Harrison, British mountaineer (d. 1999) |
| 28th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Mas, French singer and actress |
| 28th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (d. 2009) |
| 28th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | David R. Ross, Scottish historian and writer (d. 2010) |
| 28th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980) |
| 28th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Latham, Australian politician |
| 28th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress |
| 28th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Simard, Canadian singer and TV host |
| 28th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Barry McGuigan, Irish boxer |
| 28th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Bachelart, Belgian racing driver |
| 28th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist |
| 28th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist |
| 28th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando del Valle, American tenor |
| 28th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lotta Lotass, Swedish writer |
| 28th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Park Gok-ji, South Korean film editor |
| 28th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer |
| 28th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Cooper, English footballer |
| 28th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Stephan Lebeau, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver |
| 28th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Sean Leonard, American actor |
| 28th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tor ?ivind ?degard, Norwegian middle distance runner |
| 28th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Monahan, American singer (Train) |
| 28th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete |
| 28th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Handler, American writer |
| 28th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tristan Louis, American writer |
| 28th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Maxine Bahns, American actress |
| 28th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Junya Nakano, Japanese composer |
| 28th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Stebbings, Canadian actor |
| 28th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Cochrane, American actor |
| 28th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Lindros, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver |
| 28th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Masato Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 28th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Moana Mackey, New Zealand politician |
| 28th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tangi Miller, American actress |
| 28th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Carsley, Irish footballer |
| 28th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Rucker, American football player |
| 28th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Larter, American actress and model |
| 28th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor |
| 28th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Pine, Australian swimmer |
| 28th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Aldean, American country singer |
| 28th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter |
| 28th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Yasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer |
| 28th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player |
| 28th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier |
| 28th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Zabaleta, Argentine tennis player |
| 28th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bisping, English mixed martial artist |
| 28th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ivo Karlovic, Croatian tennis player |
| 28th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Primoz Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper |
| 28th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Bourdais, French racing driver |
| 28th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer |
| 28th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Piotr Giza, Polish footballer |
| 28th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Esquerdinha, Brazilian footballer |
| 28th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lucian Bute, Romanian-born Canadian boxer |
| 28th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player |
| 28th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Bannister, American baseball player |
| 28th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Florent Serra, French tennis player |
| 28th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Vodianova, Russian supermodel |
| 28th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Fagan, American musician and reality show contestant |
| 28th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Karolina Kurkova, Czech supermodel |
| 28th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer |
| 28th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer |
| 28th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jelena Jankovic, Serbian tennis player |
| 28th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Bresnan, British cricketer |
| 28th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Sztyndera, German rugby player |
| 28th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kerrea Gilbert, English footballer |
| 28th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Maikol Negro, Italian footballer |
| 28th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Marketa Irglova, Czech songwriter and actress |
| 28th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Steeve Gerard Fanka, Cameroonian footballer |
| 28th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player |
| 28th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Jenkins, American basketball player |
| 28th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Bolger, Irish actress |
| 28th of February 2007 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco |
| 28th of February 1261 | DEATH | Henry III, Duke of Brabant (Born c.1230s|1230) |
| 28th of February 1326 | DEATH | Duke Leopold I of Austria (Born 1290) |
| 28th of February 1453 | DEATH | Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (Born 1400) |
| 28th of February 1485 | DEATH | Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (Born 1441) |
| 28th of February 1510 | DEATH | Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer |
| 28th of February 1525 | DEATH | Cuauhtemoc, Aztec ruler |
| 28th of February 1572 | DEATH | Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (Born 1505) |
| 28th of February 1621 | DEATH | Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1590) |
| 28th of February 1648 | DEATH | King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (Born 1577) |
| 28th of February 1746 | DEATH | Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (Born 1660) |
| 28th of February 1786 | DEATH | John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (Born 1713) |
| 28th of February 1788 | DEATH | Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (Born 1725) |
| 28th of February 1836 | DEATH | Friedrich August Grotefend, German philogist (Born 1798) |
| 28th of February 1857 | DEATH | Andre Dumont, Belgian geologist (Born 1809) |
| 28th of February 1869 | DEATH | Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (Born 1790) |
| 28th of February 1891 | DEATH | George Hearst, American businessman and US Senator (Born 1820) |
| 28th of February 1916 | DEATH | Henry James, American writer (Born 1843) |
| 28th of February 1925 | DEATH | Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (Born 1871) |
| 28th of February 1929 | DEATH | Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (Born 1874) |
| 28th of February 1932 | DEATH | Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (Born 1851) |
| 28th of February 1935 | DEATH | Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (Born 1847). |
| 28th of February 1936 | DEATH | Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1866) |
| 28th of February 1941 | DEATH | King Alfonso XIII of Spain (Born 1886) |
| 28th of February 1942 | DEATH | Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (Born 1889) |
| 28th of February 1956 | DEATH | Emile Buisson, French murderer (executed) (Born 1902) |
| 28th of February 1959 | DEATH | Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (Born 1888) |
| 28th of February 1963 | DEATH | Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (Born 1884) |
| 28th of February 1966 | DEATH | Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born actor (Born 1891) |
| 28th of February 1967 | DEATH | Henry Luce, American publisher (Born 1898) |
| 28th of February 1974 | DEATH | Bobby Bloom, American singer/songwriter (Born 1946) |
| 28th of February 1977 | DEATH | Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (Born 1905) |
| 28th of February 1978 | DEATH | Philip Ahn, American actor (Born 1905) |
| 28th of February 1978 | DEATH | Zara Cully, American actress (Born 1892) |
| 28th of February 1978 | DEATH | Eric Frank Russell, English author (Born 1905) |
| 28th of February 1979 | DEATH | Paul Alverdes, German writer (Born 1897) |
| 28th of February 1985 | DEATH | David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (Born 1947) |
| 28th of February 1985 | DEATH | Ray Ellington, English singer (Born 1916) |
| 28th of February 1986 | DEATH | Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (Born 1927) |
| 28th of February 1986 | DEATH | Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (Born 1900) |
| 28th of February 1991 | DEATH | Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (Born 1914) |
| 28th of February 1991 | DEATH | Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (Born 1916) |
| 28th of February 1993 | DEATH | Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (Born 1911) |
| 28th of February 1993 | DEATH | Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (Born 1910) |
| 28th of February 1998 | DEATH | Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (Born 1952) |
| 28th of February 1998 | DEATH | Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (Born 1930) |
| 28th of February 1999 | DEATH | Christine Glanville, British puppeteer (Born 1924) |
| 28th of February 2002 | DEATH | Mary Stuart, American actress (Born 1926) |
| 28th of February 2002 | DEATH | Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (Born 1920) |
| 28th of February 2003 | DEATH | Chris Brasher, English athlete (Born 1928) |
| 28th of February 2003 | DEATH | Fidel Sanchez Hernandez, President of El Salvador (Born 1917) |
| 28th of February 2003 | DEATH | Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (Born 1935) |
| 28th of February 2003 | DEATH | Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (Born 1921) |
| 28th of February 2003 | DEATH | Rudolf Kingslake, English optical engineer (Born 1903) |
| 28th of February 2004 | DEATH | Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (Born 1914) |
| 28th of February 2004 | DEATH | Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (Born 1921) |
| 28th of February 2004 | DEATH | Andres Nuiamae, Estonian soldier (Born 1982) |
| 28th of February 2006 | DEATH | Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1920) |
| 28th of February 2007 | DEATH | Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (Born 1908) |
| 28th of February 2007 | DEATH | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (Born 1917) |
| 28th of February 2007 | DEATH | Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (Born 1946) |
| 28th of February 2008 | DEATH | Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (Born 1943) |
| 28th of February 2009 | DEATH | Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (Born 1918) |
| 28th of February 2011 | DEATH | Annie Girardot, French actress (Born 1931) |
| 28th of February 2011 | DEATH | Peter Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain (Born 1942) |