February 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 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
• 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 Continental Congressman (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 US Senator (b. 1820)
• 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, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
• 1941 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
• 1942 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
• 1956 – Emile Buisson, French murderer (executed) (b. 1902)
• 1959 – Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (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/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 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
• 1986 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 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 – Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Rudolf Kingslake, English optical engineer (b. 1903)
• 2004 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
• 2006 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
• 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)