Anniversaries 28 February

Birth

Bai Juyi12

Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 772–846

Rashi15

French rabbi and commentator 1040–1105

Michel De Montaigne264

(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

John Tenniel5

British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoo… 1820–1914

Ernest Renan11

French philosopher and writer 1823–1892

Florian Cajori13

American mathematician 1859–1930

George Lyman Kittredge2

American scholar, literary critic, and folklorist 1860–1941

Arthur Symons21

British poet 1865–1945

Ben Hecht32

American screenwriter 1894–1964

Marcel Pagnol9

novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France 1895–1974

Linus Pauling19

American scientist 1901–1994

Stephen Spender76

English poet and man of letters 1909–1995

Zero Mostel1

American actor 1915–1977

Peter Medawar40

scientist 1915–1987

Richard Dalitz3

Australian physicist 1925–2006

Jack Gilbert1

poet 1925–2012

Svetlana Alliluyeva4

daughter of Joseph Stalin 1926–2011

Frank Gehry9

Canadian-American (b.1929) 1929

Szeto Wah2

Hong Kong politician and teacher 1931–2011

Gavin MacLeod1

American actor 1931–2021

Mario Andretti4

Italian-American racing driver 1940

Suzanne Mubarak1

former First Lady of Egypt 1941

Steven Chu3

American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energ… 1948

Donna Jo Napoli4

American children's writer and linguist 1948

Akeel Bilgrami1

Indian philosopher 1950

Paul Krugman106

American economist 1953

John Barnes38

American science fiction writer 1957

Megan McDonald1

American children's literature author 1959

Mark Latham7

Australian politician 1961

Barry McGuigan1

Irish-British boxer 1961

Patricia Briggs195

American writer 1965

Colum McCann71

Irish writer and journalist 1965

Philip Reeve4

English children's writer and illustrator 1966

Daniel Handler190

American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Sni… 1970

Ali Larter4

American actress 1976

Jason Aldean2

American country music singer 1977

Chris Wooding5

British children's writer 1977

Markéta Irglová1

Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress 1988

Death

Francesco Maria Molza1

Italian poet 1489–1544

Cyril Tourneur1

English dramatist 1575–1626

Alphonse de Lamartine19

French writer, poet, and politician 1790–1869

Henry James154

American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916

Rajendra Prasad19

Indian political leader 1884–1963

F. S. Flint12

English Imagist poet 1885–1960

Neville Cardus9

English writer 1888–1975

Bing Xin3

Chinese writer 1900–1999

Daniel Katz11

American psychologist 1903–1998

Joseph M. Juran2

Quality guru 1904–2008

Richard Armour2

American writer 1906–1989

Ishirō Honda6

Japanese film director 1911–1993

Дэниэл Бурстин1

1914–2004

Daniel J. Boorstin39

American historian 1914–2004

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.5

American historian, social critic, and public intellectual 1917–2007

Paul Harvey12

American broadcaster 1918–2009

Arthur Jones (inventor)11

American inventor 1926–2007

Donald A. Glaser1

American physicist and neurobiologist 1926–2013

Olof Palme6

Swedish 20th century prime minister 1927–1986

Joe Girard1

American salesman 1928–2019

Thomas J. Stanley3

American businessman 1944–2015