February 28
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- 1261 - Henry III, Duke of Brabant
- 1326 - Duke Leopold I of Austria
- 1510 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (born c. 1460)
- 1621 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
- 1648 - King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway, (b. 1577)
- 1916 - Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
- 1941 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
- 1942 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
- 1959 - Maxwell Anderson, playwright and film writer (b. 1888)
- 1966 - Jonathan Hale, Canadian actor
- 1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher
- 1977 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, actor (b. 1905)
- 1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor
- 1978 - Zara Cully, American actress
- 1985 - David Byron, singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
- 1985 - Ray Ellington, British singer (b. 1916)
- 1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
- 1993 - Ruby Keeler, actress, singer, dancer (b. 1910)
- 1998 - Dermot Morgan, actor, comedian (b. 1952)
- 1998 - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat
- 2002 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
- 2002 - Mary Stuart, American actress
- 2003 - Chris Brasher, athlete
- 2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former President of El Salvador
- 2003 - Roger Michael Needham, professor of cryptography at Cambridge University
- 2004 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
