On this day: 28 February
Events, births and deaths on 28 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Joseph Wambaugh
- Deaths · David Johansen
- Deaths · Ayako Sono
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · George Kennedy
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1922 · Events · Egypt
- 1916 · Deaths · Henry James
- 1929 · Births · Frank Gehry
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1119 · Births · Emperor Xizong of Jin
Events · 24
- 1904S.L. Benfica — professional association football club based in Lisbon, Portugal
- 1914Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus — short-lived 1914 republic in Europe
- 1922Egypt — country in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia
- 19251925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake — Major Canadian earthquake
- 19481948 Accra Riots — adu boahen
- 19661966 NASA T-38 crash — aviation accident
- 19691969 Portugal earthquake — earthquake in Portugal and Morocco
- 1973Aeroflot Flight X-167 — 1973 aviation incident in the Soviet Union
- 1974February 1974 United Kingdom general election — general election held in the United Kingdom
- 1975Moorgate tube crash — train wreck on London Underground
- 1980murder at Lin Yi-hsiung residence — 1980 murder in Taipei, Taiwan
- 19851985 Newry mortar attack — IRA attack in Northern Ireland
- 1986assassination of Olof Palme — February 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
- 1993Waco Siege — 1993 struggle between the U.S government and armed inhabitants of a compound in Texas
- 1997North Hollywood shootout — 1997 bank robbery and subsequent shootout between bank robbers and police
- 19971997 Ardabil earthquake — earthquake in Ardabil Province, Iran
- 20012001 Nisqually earthquake — earthquake in Washington, USA in March 2001
- 2001Great Heck rail crash — rail crash caused by a car on the track
- 2002Gulbarg Society massacre — February 28, 2002 massacre happened at Ahmedabad, India
- 2002Naroda Patiya massacre — massacre which took place at Naroda, Ahmedabad during the Gujarat violence support by BJP
- 2013resignation of Pope Benedict XVI — event in which Pope Benedict XVI resigned on 28 Feb. 2013 at 20:00 CET, after an announcement on 11 Feb.
- 2023Tempi train crash — collision of two trains in Greece, 28 February 2023
- 20262026 Iran War — ongoing armed conflict in West Asia
- 2026assassination of Ali Khamenei — 2026 assassination in Tehran, Iran
Births · 60
- 772Bai Juyi — Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)
- 1155(Julian date)Henry the Young King — second of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 1533(Julian date)Michel de Montaigne — French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)
- 1552Jost Bürgi — Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments and mathematician (1552-1632)
- 1683René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur — French scientist
- 1690Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia — Russian Tsarevich (1690-1718)
- 1820John Tenniel — British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist, very good friends with Spencer Bradshaw (1820-1914)
- 1823Ernest Renan — French philosopher and writer (1823–1892)
- 1833Alfred von Schlieffen — Prussian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff (1833-1913)
- 1866Vyacheslav Ivanov — Russian poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)
- 1894Ben Hecht — American writer, director, and producer (1894–1964)
- 1896Philip Showalter Hench — American physician (1896-1965)
- 1901Linus Pauling — American scientist (1901–1994)
- 1906Bugsy Siegel — American mobster (1906-1947)
- 1909Stephen Spender — English poet and man of letters (1909–1995)
- 1912Clara Petacci — mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1912–1948)
- 1915Peter Medawar — English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987)
- 1924Christopher C. Kraft — American aerospace engineer (1924–2019)
- 1928Abdul Sattar Edhi — Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian
- 1929Frank Gehry — Canadian and American architect (1929–2025)
- 1930Leon Cooper — American physicist (1930–2024)
- 1939Daniel C. Tsui — Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1940Mario Andretti — Italian-American racing driver (born 1940)
- 1942Dino Zoff — Italian association football player and manager
- 1942Brian Jones — British musician (1942–1969)
Deaths · 50
- 628(Julian date)Khosrow II — The 24th Sassanid emperor (590–628)
- 1525(Julian date)
- 1621Cosimo II de' Medici — Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590-1621)
- 1648(Julian date)Christian IV of Denmark — king of Denmark and Norway (1577–1648)
- 1740Pietro Ottoboni — Catholic cardinal
- 1775Empress Xiaoyichun — Qing Dynasty empress
- 1857André Dumont — Belgian geologist (1809-1857)
- 1859Manuel John Johnson — British astronomer (1805-1859)
- 1916Henry James — American and British writer (1843–1916)
- 1925Friedrich Ebert — German politician, president of Germany (1871-1925)
- 1929Clemens von Pirquet — Austrian physician (1874-1929)
- 1932Guillaume Bigourdan — French astronomer (1851–1932)
- 1936Charles Nicolle — French microbiologist (1866–1936)
- 1941Alfonso XIII — King of Spain from 1886 to 1931 (1886–1941)
- 1960Teiji Takagi — Japanese mathematician (1875–1960)
- 1963Rajendra Prasad — Indian statesman, lawyer and writer (1884–1963); first President of India
- 1966Elliot See — American test pilot and NASA astronaut (1927-1966)
- 1966Charles Bassett — United States Air Force test pilot and astronaut (1931–1966)
- 1967Henry Luce — American magazine publisher (1898–1967)
- 1975Neville Cardus — English writer (1888-1975)
- 1977Eddie "Rochester" Anderson — American comedian and actor (1905–1977)
- 1978Zara Cully — actress (1892-1978)
- 1993Ishirō Honda — Japanese filmmaker (1911–1993)
- 1993Ruby Keeler — American actress, dancer, and singer (1910-1993)
- 1994Pujie — Chinese politician and younger brother of Puyi (1907-1994)
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