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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