February 28 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 468 – Pope Hilarius (approximate date)
  • 1261 – Henry III, Duke of Brabant (b. c.1230s|1230)
  • 1326 – Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
  • 1453 – Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
  • 1485 – Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
  • 1510 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer
  • 1525 – Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (b. c. 1495)
  • 1572 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
  • 1621 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
  • 1648 – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577)
  • 1746 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
  • 1786 – John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
  • 1788 – Thomas Cushing, American politician (b. 1725)
  • 1836 – Friedrich August Grotefend, German philogist (b. 1798)
  • 1857 – André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
  • 1869 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (b. 1790)
  • 1891 – George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
  • 1913 – George Finnegan, American boxer (b. 1881)
  • 1916 – Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
  • 1925 – Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)
  • 1929 – Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874)
  • 1932 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
  • 1935 – Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
  • 1936 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
  • 1936 – Kamala Nehru, wife of Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru (b. 1899)
  • 1941 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
  • 1942 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
  • 1956 – Emile Buisson, French murderer (b. 1902)
  • 1959 – Maxwell Anderson, American playwright (b. 1888)
  • 1963 – Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
  • 1966 – Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born actor (b. 1891)
  • 1967 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
  • 1974 – Bobby Bloom, American singer and songwriter (b. 1946)
  • 1977 – Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)
  • 1978 – Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
  • 1978 – Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
  • 1978 – Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
  • 1979 – Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897)
  • 1985 – David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
  • 1985 – Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916)
  • 1986 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)
  • 1986 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
  • 1987 – Stephen Tennant, English socialite (b. 1906)
  • 1991 – Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916)
  • 1991 – Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
  • 1993 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
  • 1993 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910)
  • 1998 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
  • 1998 – Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)
  • 1999 – Christine Glanville, British puppeteer (b. 1924)
  • 2002 – Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
  • 2002 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
  • 2003 – Chris Brasher, English athlete (b. 1928)
  • 2003 – Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • 2003 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
  • 2003 – Rudolf Kingslake, English optical engineer (b. 1903)
  • 2003 – Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)
  • 2004 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
  • 2004 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (b. 1921)
  • 2004 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
  • 2005 – Chris Curtis, English singer and musician (The Searchers) (b. 1941)
  • 2006 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
  • 2006 – John S. Lesmeister, American politician (b. 1955)
  • 2007 – Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (b. 1908)
  • 2007 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (b. 1917)
  • 2007 – Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
  • 2008 – Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)
  • 2009 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1918)
  • 2011 – Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931)
  • 2011 – Peter Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain (b. 1942)
  • 2011 – Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Jim Green, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
  • 2012 – Bai Jing, Chinese actress (b. 1983)
  • 2012 – Peter King, English footballer (b. 1964)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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