Anniversaries 28 February
Birth
![Bai Juyi photo]()
Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
772–846
![Rashi photo]()
French rabbi and commentator
1040–1105
![Michel De Montaigne photo]()
(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, …
1533–1592
![John Tenniel photo]()
British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoo…
1820–1914
![Ernest Renan photo]()
French philosopher and writer
1823–1892
![Florian Cajori photo]()
American mathematician
1859–1930
![George Lyman Kittredge photo]()
American scholar, literary critic, and folklorist
1860–1941
![Ben Hecht photo]()
American screenwriter
1894–1964
![Marcel Pagnol photo]()
novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France
1895–1974
![Linus Pauling photo]()
American scientist
1901–1994
![Stephen Spender photo]()
English poet and man of letters
1909–1995
![Richard Dalitz photo]()
Australian physicist
1925–2006
![Svetlana Alliluyeva photo]()
daughter of Joseph Stalin
1926–2011
![Frank Gehry photo]()
Canadian-American (b.1929)
1929
![Szeto Wah photo]()
Hong Kong politician and teacher
1931–2011
![Mario Andretti photo]()
Italian-American racing driver
1940
![Suzanne Mubarak photo]()
former First Lady of Egypt
1941
![Steven Chu photo]()
American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energ…
1948
![Donna Jo Napoli photo]()
American children's writer and linguist
1948
![John Barnes photo]()
American science fiction writer
1957
![Megan McDonald photo]()
American children's literature author
1959
![Mark Latham photo]()
Australian politician
1961
![Colum McCann photo]()
Irish writer and journalist
1965
![Philip Reeve photo]()
English children's writer and illustrator
1966
![Daniel Handler photo]()
American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Sni…
1970
![Jason Aldean photo]()
American country music singer
1977
![Chris Wooding photo]()
British children's writer
1977
![Markéta Irglová photo]()
Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress
1988
Death
![Cyril Tourneur photo]()
English dramatist
1575–1626
![Alphonse de Lamartine photo]()
French writer, poet, and politician
1790–1869
![Henry James photo]()
American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
1843–1916
![Rajendra Prasad photo]()
Indian political leader
1884–1963
![F. S. Flint photo]()
English Imagist poet
1885–1960
![Daniel Katz photo]()
American psychologist
1903–1998
![Richard Armour photo]()
American writer
1906–1989
![Ishirō Honda photo]()
Japanese film director
1911–1993
![Daniel J. Boorstin photo]()
American historian
1914–2004
![Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. photo]()
American historian, social critic, and public intellectual
1917–2007
![Paul Harvey photo]()
American broadcaster
1918–2009
![Arthur Jones (inventor) photo]()
American inventor
1926–2007
![Donald A. Glaser photo]()
American physicist and neurobiologist
1926–2013
![Olof Palme photo]()
Swedish 20th century prime minister
1927–1986
![Joe Girard photo]()
American salesman
1928–2019
![Thomas J. Stanley photo]()
American businessman
1944–2015
