February 28th
Holidays and Celebrations
Kalevala Day, The Day of Finnish Culture (Finland )
Dia de Andalucia (Andalusia)
Independence Recognized (Egypt) * (See Below)
Peace Memorial Day (Taiwan) * (See Below)
Anniversary of the end of The first Gulf War (1991)
Territory Day (Colorado) * (See Below)
Rare Disease Day Last day of February
International Sword Swallowers Day
Floral Design Day
Public Sleeping Day
National Tooth Fairy Day (and/or August 22)
St. Oswald of Worcester Feast Day
Public Sleeping Day
Floral Design Day
MASH Finale Day, The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA in 1983, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106–125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source).
The North Hollywood shootout Remembrance, took place in 1997.
Michel de Montaigne Day, French writer (1533 - d. 1592)
Jan 0 (except Leap Years)
Pádraic Ó Conaire Day, Irish writer (1882 - d. 1928)
John Montague Day, Irish poet (b.1929)
National Chocolate Soufflé Day
Mario Andretti Day, Italian-American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1940)
Day 3 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) (Bahá'í Faith) days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Christian Feast Day of Abercius (martyr)
Christian Feast Day of Saint Hilarius (d. 468)
Christian Feast Day of Mar Abba
Christian Feast Day of Saint Oswald of Worcester (d. 992)
Christian Feast Day of Saint Romanus of Condat (d. 463)
Christian Feast Day of Saint Rufinus
* Binche Carnival (Belgium)
* Noise Pop Music Festival 2010, San Francisco, California, USA February 23 – March 1 (6of7)(2010)
* Independence Recognized (Egypt) - The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt (1922)
* Peace Memorial Day (Taiwan), the day of commemorating the 228 Incident Also Known As the 228 Massacre, an anti-government uprising in Taiwan.
* Territory Day (Colorado), organized as a United States territory (1861)
Toast of The Day
"Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he's dead."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Buttery Nipple
1 Part Buttersscotch Schnapps
2 Parts Baileyrish 's Irish Cream Liqueur
(Alternative : 1 part each)
Pour Butterscotch Liqueur into a double shot glass and float the Baileys on top.
- Alternative -
Brandy Alexander (Original)
1/3 Brandy
1/3 Crème de Cacao
1/3 Sweet Cream
Shake well in a mixing glass with cracked ice, strain and serve.
- In Honor of the Wedding of Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (2/28/1922) where drink was rumoured to have been created.
Wine of The Day
Style - Viognier
Contra Costa County
$30
Beer of The Day
Terminal Stout
Brewer - Rock Bottom Brewery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Style - American-Style Stout
Joke of The Day
A policeman pulls over a driver for swerving in and out of lanes on the highway. He tells the guy to blow a breath into a breathalyzer.
"I can't do that, officer."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm an asthmatic. I could get an asthma attack if I blow into that tube."
"Okay, we'll just get a urine sample down at the station."
"Can't do that either, officer."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm a diabetic. I could get low blood sugar if I pee in a cup."
"Alright, we could get a blood sample."
"Can't do that either, officer."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm a hemophiliac. If I give blood I could die."
"Fine then, just walk this white line."
"Can't do that either, officer."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm drunk."
Quote of the Day
"When life hands you lemons, bust out the tequilla and salt!"
- Anonymous
Whisky of The Day
$2000
February Observances
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month
Aggressive Driving Month
American Heart Month
National Heart Healthy Month
American History Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Avocado and Banana Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month
Berry Fresh Month
Black History Month
Burn Awareness Month
Canned Food Month
Celebration of Chocolate Month
Creative Romance Month
Dog Training Education Month
Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
From Africa to Virginia Month
National Get To Know An Independent Real Estate Broker Month
Grapefruit Month
Great American Pie Month a.k.a American Pie Month
International Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month
International Friendship Month
International Hoof-care Month
Jobs in Golf Month
Library Lovers' Month
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month
National African American History Month
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Condom Month
National Embroidery Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Laugh-Friendly Month
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Snack Food Month
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
National Therapeutic Recreation Month
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Wild Bird Feeding Month
Parent Leadership Month, Natl
Plant The Seeds Of Greatness Month
Potato Lover’s Month
Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month
Relationship Wellness Month
Responsible Pet Owner's Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Senior Independence Month
Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
Spiritual Teachers Month
Spunky Old Broads Month
Sweet Potato Month
Truck Month (GM)
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
Youth Leadership Month
Observances this Week
National Pancake Week, Fourth Week of FebruaryRead Me Week, Fourth Week of February
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week, Fourth Full Week in February
Telecommuter Appreciation Week, Fourth Full Week in February
Peace Corps Week, Fourth Full Week in February starting with Monday
International Friendship Week, Last Full Week of February
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Last Full Week in February
Historical on February 28th
(202 BC) Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China
364 Valentinian I becomes Roman Emperor.
870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople
1066 Westminster Abbey opens
1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1646 Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church
1653 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1692 Salem witch hunt begins
1700 Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in NYC
1704 Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100
1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
1710 In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
1728 Georg F Handel's opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London
1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
1749 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
1780 An earthquake hits Iran, killing 200,000 people and causing several damages.
1784 John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
1787 The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh is granted.
1794 US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
1810 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
1819 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid"
1826 M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
1827 The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1828 Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna
1835 Dr Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
1838 Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
1844 A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
1847 US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento
1849 Regular steamboat service (load of gold rush prospectors) from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
1850 The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1854 The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
1861 Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
1861 Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
1862 Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris
1863 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia
1864 Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
1864 Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
1870 The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
1878 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
1882 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard U
1883 The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1885 The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
1888 Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
1891 Oscar Grundén skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
1893 Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
1896 France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
1897 Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
1900 The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted, General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal, The Second Boer War.
1902 Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
1903 Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
1904 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
1912 Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)
1914 Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)
1914 The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
1917 AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1920 Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin," premieres
1922 Egypt regains independence from United Kingdom, but British troops remain
1922 English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles
1922 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
1923 Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
1924 US begins intervention in Honduras
1925 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
1925 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
1925 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
1928 C.V. Raman discovered Raman effect.
1929 Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
1931 Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
1933 Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor, 1st female in cabinet member.
1933 German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
1933 Gleichschaltung, The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
1933 Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
1935 DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents Nylon.
1935 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer
1939 Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1939 The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1939 The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published.
1940 Basketball is televised for the first time, Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37).
1940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
1940 US population at 131,669,275
1941 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1942 1st weapon drop on Netherlands
1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
1942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
1942 The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth (D29) which lost 375 men.
1943 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
1943 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month
1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan, 228 Incident, In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
1950 "Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1951 French government of Pleven dissolves
1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
1953 James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
1953 Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov
1954 Patty Berg/Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Mass
1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1957 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
1958 A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.
1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
1959 "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 perfs
1959 Ice Dance Championship at Colo Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of GRB
1959 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN
1959 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss USA
1959 Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
1959 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by David Jenkins USA
1959 NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
1960 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colo
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1960 US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Canada
1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1962 WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
1966 Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
1967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off NZ, returns to the air
1969 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Towler & Ford of GBR
1969 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Spr won by Rodnina & Ulanov of URS
1969 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colo Spr won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR
1969 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colo Springs won by Tim Wood USA
1970 "Georgy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances
1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
1970 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
1970 KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City, IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 53rd PGA Championship, Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA Natl FL Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam
1971 WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville, KY (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
1972 Pres Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
1972 The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
1972 The Asama-Sanso incident ends in Japan.
1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
1974 After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
1974 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 Taiwan police shoots into crowd
1975 A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London as train speeds past final stop killing 43 people.
1975 EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 18th Grammy Awards: Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole wins
1976 Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
1976 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara
1977 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, LA California)
1977 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
1979 Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in NYC
1980 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)
1980 Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
1981 China PR throws out Neth ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan
1982 AT & T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
1982 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
1983 Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
1984 26th Grammy Awards: Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8
1985 The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1986 European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade
1986 Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
1988 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada
1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed
1988 Pat Verbeek becomes 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)
1989 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
1989 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
1989 Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam
1991 "Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances
1991 Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
1991 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16)
1991 The first Gulf War ends.
1991 US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire
1993 "Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
1993 7th American Comedy Award, Seinfeld wins
1993 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
1993 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
1993 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife
1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1995 Denver International Airport officially opens in Denver, Colorado to replace Stapleton International Airport
1996 38th Grammy Awards, Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette wins
1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45
1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
1997 The North Hollywood shootout takes place.
1998 "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1998 First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
1998 Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo, Kosovo War.
1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
2001 Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
2001 The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
2004 Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
2005 A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
2005 Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.
2007 Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
2008 Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges upon returning to Thailand after months of exile.
2012 Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall
2012 Matt Kenseth wins (140.256 MPH) the 54th Daytona 500
2012 Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's Cathedral
2013 28 people are killed and 60 are injured after a series of bombings across Baghdad, Iraq
2013 35 people are killed in violent demonstrations across Bangladesh
2013 Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294
2013 The brains of two rats successfully connected so that they share information
2014 Russia moves troops into the Crimea to protect its interests against Ukraine
2016 Best Picture "Spotlight", Best Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Best Actor/Actress Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson at the 88th Academy Awards
2016 Explosion at Severnaya coal mine in Vorkuta, Russia kills 36, including 5 rescuers
2016 "Fifty Shades of Grey" wins worst film, worst actor and actress at the 36th Razzies Awards
Born on February 28th
1155 Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183)
1261 Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283)
1409 Elisabeth II of Bohemia (d. 1442)
1533 Michel de Montaigne, French writer (d. 1592)
1552 Jobst Borgib (Justus Byrgius), Swiss/German mathematician
1552 Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker (d. 1632)
1573 Elias Hill, German architect/
1573 Elias Holl, German Architect and city builder (Augsburg) (d. 1646)
1612 John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)
1616 Kaspar Forster, composer
1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer
1663 Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor (steam engine)
1670 Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
1675 Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
1683 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
1690 Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great
1704 Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
1712 Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)
1724 George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
1747 Justin Morgan, composer
1750 Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister
1764 Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist
1771 French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter
1786 D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician
1792 Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist
1797 Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)
1797 W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral (10 day campaign)
1810 Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian
1812 Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (d. 1882)
1817 James Craig, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1820 John Tenniel, English illustrator (Alice in Wonderland) (d. 1914)
1822 Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1823 Ernest Renan, French philosopher and Religious Scholar (d. 1892)
1824 Blondin, French tightrope walker (d. 1897)
1824 Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
1824 John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1825 Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1833 Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
1838 Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
1840 Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
1841 Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914)
1850 Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist)
1851 Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
1854 Juliusz Zarebski, composer
1857 Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer
1858 Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
1865 Arthur Symons, Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy)
1865 Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary (d. 1940)
1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16]
1874 Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range)
1875 Viliam Figus, composer
1876 John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
1877 Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
1878 Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
1878 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
1882 Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (Story of American Singer) (d. 1967)
1882 José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer (d. 1959)
1882 Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish writer (d. 1928)
1882 Richard Heinrich Stein, composer
1886 Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas)
1886 Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo)
1887 William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
1889 Victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
1894 Ben Hecht, American playwright (Front Page) (d. 1964)
1895 Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
1895 Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director (Marchands de Gloire) (d. 1974)
1896 Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate (cortisone) (d. 1965)
1898 Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
1899 Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist
1900 Laura Z Hobson, writer
1900 Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959)
1901 Linus Pauling, American chemist and peace activist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1954, 1962) (d. 1994)
1901 Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
1903 Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986)
1905 Glyn Jones, writer
1906 Bugsy Siegel, American gangster, created casinos in Las Vegas (d. 1947)
1907 Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (d. 1988)
1908 Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005)
1908 Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
1909 Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
1909 Stephen Spender, English poet (Vienna, Edge of Darkness) (d. 1995)
1910 Roman Maciejewski, composer
1910 Vincente Minnelli, Chicago IL, director (American in Paris, Gigi)
1911 Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
1911 Otakar Vávra, Czech film director
1912 Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)
1912 Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute)
1914 Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
1915 Ketti Frings, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, (d. 1981)
1915 Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, zoologist, immunologist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1953) (d. 1987)
1915 Zero "Samuel" Mostel, American actor (Fiddler on the Roof) (d. 1977)
1916 Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (d. 1984)
1916 Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist
1917 Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 2007)
1917 Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
1917 John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK
1918 Alfred Burke, British actor (Backfire)
1920 Edward Kassner, music publisher
1920 Jim Olin, (Rep-D-VA, 1983)
1920 Marjorie M Sweeting, English geomorphologist
1921 John Bouber (Blom), actor/author (Fool of Heideloo)
1921 Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
1921 Vladimir Sommer, composer
1923 Charles Durning, American actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie)
1924 Robert A Roe, (Rep-D-NJ, 1969)
1925 Harry H Corbett, English actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky) (d. 1982)
1926 Seymour Shifrin, composer
1926 Stanley Glasser, composer
1926 Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin, author (My Life)
1927 Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer
1927 John Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1928 Bettye Ackerman, Cottageville SC, actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey)
1928 Tom Aldredge, Dayton OH, actor (What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers)
1929 Frank O Gehry, Canadian-American architect (Galleria-Oklahoma City)
1929 Hayden Fry, American football coach
1929 John Montague, Irish poet
1929 Joseph Rouleau, French Canadian bass opera singer
1930 Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
1930 Frank Malzone, baseball player
1930 Gavin MacLeod, American actor
1930 Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1972)
1931 Dean Smith, American basketball coach
1931 Gavin MacLeod, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat)
1931 Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier (World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75)
1931 Jack Thieuloy, writer
1932 Brian Moore, British commentator (Big Match)
1932 Don Francks, Canadian actor (Terminal Choice, Finian's Rainbow)
1933 Miro Steržaj, Slovenian 9-pin bowler
1933 Rein Taagepera, Estonian politician
1933 Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (d.1989)
1934 Willie Bobo, NYC, jazz drummer (Cos)
1935 Clive Halse, cricketer (S Afr fast bowler on 1963-64 Aust/NZ tour)
1938 Foge Fazio, American college football coach (d. 2009)
1938 Martin Olav Sabo, (Rep-D-MN, 1979)
1939 Charles Brown, Cin Oh, featherweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1939 Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1939 John Fahey, singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
1939 Tommy Tune, American dancer and choreographer (Boyfriend)
1940 Joe South, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Games People Play)
1940 Mario Andretti, Italian American race-car driver (1969 Indianapolis 500, 1978 Formula One World Champion)
1941 Alice May Brock, author
1941 Marty Sanders, rock vocalist
1942 Brian Jones (Lewis Brian Hopkins Jones), English guitarist (Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
1942 Dino Zoff, Italian footballer
1942 Frank Bonner, American actor (WKRP, Hoax, You Can't Hurry Love)
1943 Barbara Acklin (Allen), American soul singer (Love Makes a Woman) (d. 1998)
1943 Charles Bernstein, American composer
1943 Donny Iris, singer
1943 Hans F Dijkstal, Dutch minister of the Interior (VVD, 1994-)
1944 Colin Nutley, director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack)
1944 Kelly Bishop, American actress (Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn)
1944 Sepp Maier, German footballer
1944 Win Aung, Burmese politician
1945 Bubba Smith
1945 Charles "Bubba" Smith, American NFL football player (Baltimore Colts) and actor (Police Academy)
1945 Mimsy Farmer, Chicago Ill, actress (Devil's Angel, Road to Salina)
1945 Ronnie Rosman, rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)
1946 Graham Vivian, cricketer (son of Giff, 5 Tests for NZ 1965-72)
1946 Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005)
1947 Stephanie Beacham, English actress (Devil's Widow, Schizo, Dallas, Colbys)
1948 Bernadette Peters (Lazzara), American actress (Jerk) and singer
1948 Mercedes Ruehl, American actress (Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People)
1948 Mike Figgis, English director
1948 Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel laureate, U.S. Secretary of Energy-Designate
1948 Willie Donnell Smith
1950 Ilene Graff, Bkln NY, actress (Marsha-Mr Belvedere)
1950 Stephen Chatman, composer
1951 Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
1951 Gustavo Thoeni, Italy, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 Karsan Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s)
1952 Cristina Raines, [Tina Herazo], Manila Phil, actress (Sentinel)
1952 Eddie Manion, saxophonist
1952 Jennie Lynn, San Diego California, actress (Love & Marriage)
1952 Melissa Babish, SC, swimmer (Olympic)
1952 William Finn, American composer
1953 Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian racing driver
1953 Paul Krugman, American economist and New York Times columnist (Nobel Prize in Economics 2008)
1953 Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat (Richard Blood), American professional wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1954 Brian Billick, American football coach
1955 Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian (Beverly Hills Cop)
1955 Randy Jackson, New Orleans, guitarist (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
1956 Adrian Dantley, American basketball player, NBA forward (Olympic-gold-1976, Utah Jazz)
1956 Guy Maddin, Canadian film director
1956 Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-born Northern Irish footballer
1956 Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator
1957 Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef
1957 Cindy Wilson, American singer (The B-52's)
1957 Ian Smith, cricket wicket-keeper (NZ of the 80's)
1957 Ian Stanley, keyboardist
1957 Jeff Woodland, Papua New Guinea, Nike golfer (1991 Dakota Dunes Open)
1957 John Turturro, American actor (Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever)
1957 Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996)
1957 Phil Gould, rock percussionist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1958 Christine Lathan-Brehmer, German DR, 400m runner (Oly-gold-76)
1958 Ginette Harrison, British mountaineer (d. 1999)
1958 Jeanne Mas, French singer and actress
1958 Mark Pavelich, NHLer (NY Rangers)
1958 Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (d. 2009)
1959 Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader (SACP)
1960 Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (Galixina), playmate (August, 1979) (d. 1980)
1961 Barry McGuigan, British(?) boxer
1961 Eric Bachelart, Belgian racing driver
1961 Mark Latham, Australian politician
1961 Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress (Quest for Fire)
1961 René Simard, French Canadian singer and TV host
1961 Wayne Smith, Albany WA, Australasia golfer
1962 Angela Bailey, England, Canadian 4X100m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1962 Chunli Li, Auckland NZ, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1962 Steve Tsujiura, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1963 Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist
1964 Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist
1964 Fernando del Valle, American tenor
1964 Lotta Lotass, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy
1965 Duane Ferrell, NBA forward (SF Warriors, Indiana Pacers)
1965 Mikko Makela, Tampere Finland, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1965 Park Gok-ji, South Korean film editor
1966 Erik van Kessel, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1966 Jan Varholik, Kosice CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1966 Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer
1966 Tim Goad, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1966 Vincent Askew, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics, Trailblazers)
1967 Antone Davis, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Colin Cooper, English footballer
1967 Jeffrey Pfaendtner, Detroit, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1967 Marcus Lillington, rock guitarist (Breathe-All I Need)
1968 J T Snow, US baseball 1st baseman (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1968 Mike Milchin, Knoxville TN, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1968 Stéphan Lebeau, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver
1969 Elisa Fiorillo, singer (Forgive Me For Dreaming)
1969 Patrick Monahan, American singer (Train)
1969 Robert Sean Leonard, American actor (Dead Poets Society, Mr & Mrs Bridge)
1969 Shawn McEachern, Waltham MA, NHL forward (Boston Bruins, Senators)
1969 Tor Øivind Ødegaard, Norwegian track runner
1970 Daniel Handler, American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket
1970 Jan Varholik, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 Mika Stromberg, Helsinki FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1970 Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete, 1500m runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 John Buchanan, actor (Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man)
1971 Junya Nakano, Japanese composer
1971 Maxine Bahns, American actress
1971 Peter Stebbings, Canadian actor
1971 Tristan Louis, American writer
1972 Melisa Moses, Jacksonville FL, diver (Olympics-4th-96)
1972 Rory Cochrane, American actor
1972 Scott Gragg, NFL tackle (NY Giants)
1973 Demetrice Martin, WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1973 Denard Walker, cornerback (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 Eric Lindros, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1973 Gary Walker, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1973 Henry Bailey, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 Masato Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler
1973 Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver
1974 Katie Allen, Australian field hockey full back/half back (Olympics-96)
1974 Kevin Abrams, cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1974 Lee Carsley, Irish footballer
1974 Michael Manasseri, actor (License to Drive)
1974 Michael Swift, WLAF CB (Rhein Fire)
1974 Moana Mackey, New Zealand politician
1974 Tangi Miller, American actress
1975 Azhar Mahmood, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani ODI 1996)
1975 Mike Rucker, American football player
1976 Adam Pine, Australian swimmer
1976 Ali Larter, American actress and model
1976 Angie Kennedy, Nambour QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
1977 Aki-Petteri Berg, NHL defenseman (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998, Kings)
1977 Debbie Koegel, Norristown Pa, dance skater (& Oleg Fediukov)
1977 Jason Aldean, American country singer
1978 Benjamin Raich, Austrian Olympic skier
1978 Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player
1978 Jeanne Cherhal, French Singer-songwriter
1978 Mariano Zabaleta, Argentine tennis player
1978 Marissa Perez, Miss Connecticut Teen USA (1996)
1978 Yasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer
1979 Ivo Karlovic, Croatian tennis player
1979 Michael Bisping, English mixed martial artist
1979 Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper
1979 Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver
1979 Virginia Ledgerwood, Chester Va, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 Lucian Bute, Romanian-born Quebec boxer
1980 Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
1980 Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
1980 Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
1981 Brian Bannister, American baseball player
1981 Florent Serra, French tennis player
1982 Natalia Vodianova, Russian supermodel
1984 Ben Fagan, American musician and reality show contestant
1984 Karolína Kurková, Czech supermodel
1985 Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer
1985 Jelena Jankovic, Serbian tennis player
1985 Tim Bresnan, Yorkshire and England cricketer
1987 Kerrea Gilbert, English footballer
1988 Markéta Irglová, Czech songwriter and actress
1989 Zhang Liyin, Chinese R&B singer
1991 Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
2007 Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco
Died on February 28th
642 Oswald, English missionary/saint
1261 Henry III, Duke of Brabant (1248-61) (b.c. 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)
1573 Jan "Hans" Liefrinck, Flemish engraver/publisher
1609 Paul Sartorius, composer
1618 Filips Willem, Prince of Orange
1621 Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1626 Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist
1638 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet
1638 Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader
1648 King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577)
1665 Lodewijk van Nassau, Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc)
1737 Hercule Brehy, composer
1742 Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist
1746 Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
1781 Richard Stockton, US attorney (signed Decl of Ind)
1784 Phillis Wheatly, poetess
1786 John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1788 Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
1796 Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer
1818 Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories)
1844 Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1844 Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1857 André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
1869 Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (b. 1790)
1876 Charles Edward Horsley, composer
1891 George Hearst, American businessman and US Senator (b. 1820)
1903 Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet
1905 Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist
1912 Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99)
1913 Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic)
1916 Henry James, American writer (Bostonians) (b. 1843)
1922 Vicente Lleo, composer
1925 Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)
1929 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician and artist (React of P) (b. 1874)
1929 John Ebenezer West, composer
1931 Ban Johnson, created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness
1932 Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16)
1935 Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
1936 Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
1936 Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca
1940 Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81
1941 King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
1942 Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
1949 Stanley Robert Marchant, composer
1953 Jim Thorpe, versatile American athlete (Olympics-gold-1912)
1956 Emile Buisson, French murderer (executed) (b. 1902)
1959 Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (Key Largo, Bath Seed) (b. 1888)
1960 F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement)
1960 Jonathan Hale, actor (Blondie), shoots himself
1961 Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher
1962 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1963 Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
1963 Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces)
1964 Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School)
1965 Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65)
1966 Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, crash of T-38 jet
1966 Elliot McKay See Jr, astronaut, T-38 jet crash
1966 Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born actor (b. 1891)
1967 Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
1968 Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine)
1968 Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy)
1972 Victor Barna, table tennis champ
1973 Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1973 Hope Landin, actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot)
1974 Bobby Bloom, American singer/songwriter (b. 1946)
1974 Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain
1975 Istvan Kardos, composer
1977 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor (Jack Benny Show) (b. 1905)
1978 Eric Frank Russell, English author (Hugo, Deep Space) (b. 1905)
1978 Philip Ahn, American actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu) (b. 1905)
1978 Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
1979 Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1979 Mr Ed, talking horse
1979 Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897)
1980 Ian Alexander Ross Peebles, cricketer (45 wkts for England)
1984 Leslie Walcott, cricketer (Test for WI v England 1930)
1985 Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in NYC
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)
1986 Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated
1987 Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail)
1987 Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer
1988 Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright
1989 Hermann Burger, writer
1990 Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs)
1990 Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me)
1990 Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929)
1991 Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80)
1991 Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916)
1991 Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
1992 Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek)
1992 Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette
1992 La Lupe, Cuban singer
1993 Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool)
1993 Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread & Chocolate)
1993 Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (Godzilla) (b. 1911)
1993 Joyce Carey (Lawrence), English actress (Number 27)
1993 Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (42nd Street, Dames) (b. 1910)
1994 Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China
1994 Buster Holmes, chef/restaurateur
1994 Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player
1994 George Osborne Sayles, historian
1994 Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard
1994 Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi
1995 Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer
1995 Keith Rigg, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia 1931-37)
1995 Max Rudolf, conductor
1996 Daniel Chipenda, Angolan politician and field commander
1998 Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)
1998 Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
1999 Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
2002 Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
2002 Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
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 Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
2004 Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (b. 1921)
2004 Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
2006 Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2007 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (b. 1917)
2007 Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (b. 1908)
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)
2013 Donald A. Glaser, American Nobel physicist (b. 1926)
2013 Bruce Reynolds, English criminal
2014 Rostislav Belyakov, Russian chief designer of the MiG fighter jet
2015 Alex [Alexander] Johnson, American professional baseball player
2015 Anthony Mason, NBA forward (NY Knicks, Charlotte Hornets)
2015 Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (Memed, My Hawk)
2016 Frank Kelly, Irish stage and screen actor (Father Ted)