Famous people born on 28 February

• Nicolaus CopernicusPolish mathematician and astronomer · 1473–1543
  70 yrs
• Linus PaulingAmerican scientist · 1901–1994
  93 yrs
• Mary IQueen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558 · 1516–1558
  42 yrs
• Ernest RenanFrench philosopher and writer · 1823–1892
  69 yrs
• Gilbert GottfriedAmerican stand-up comedian · 1955–2022
  67 yrs
• Hulegu KhanWestern Asian Mongol ruler · 1217–1265
  47 yrs
• Leon CooperAmerican physicist · 1930–2024
  94 yrs
• Marcel PagnolNovelist, playwright and filmmaker from France · 1895–1974
  79 yrs
• Peter Medawar ↗English-brazilian biologist · 1915–1987
  72 yrs
• Svetlana Alliluyeva ↗Joseph Stalin's daughter · 1926–2011
  85 yrs
• Bai Juyi ↗Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty · AD 772–846
  74 yrs
• Karl Ernst von Baer ↗Baltic German scientist · 1792–1876
  84 yrs
• Brian Jones ↗British musician · 1942–1969
  27 yrs
• Philip Showalter Hench ↗American physician · 1896–1965
  69 yrs
• Thomas Newcomen ↗English inventor, ironmonger and Baptist lay preacher · 1664–1729
  65 yrs
• Vincente Minnelli ↗American stage and film director · 1903–1986
  83 yrs
• Alfred von Schlieffen ↗Prussian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff · 1833–1913
  79 yrs
• Clara Petacci ↗Mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini · 1912–1945
  33 yrs
• Charles Durning ↗American actor · 1923–2012
  89 yrs
• Teiichi Matsumaru ↗Japanese association football player · 1909–1997
  87 yrs
• Vsevolod Pudovkin ↗Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor · 1893–1953
  60 yrs
• John Tenniel ↗British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist, very good friends with Spencer Bradshaw · 1820–1914
  93 yrs
• Berthold Auerbach ↗German author · 1812–1882
  69 yrs
• Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia ↗Russian Tsarevich · 1690–1718
  28 yrs
• Juri Lotman ↗Russian-Estonian semiotician · 1922–1993
  71 yrs
• Natalya Estemirova ↗Russian human rights activist · 1958–2009
  51 yrs
• B. Traven ↗German novelist · 1882–1969
  87 yrs
• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur ↗French scientist · 1683–1757
  74 yrs
• Robin Cook ↗British Labour Party politician · 1946–2005
  59 yrs
• Jost Bürgi ↗Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments and mathematician · 1552–1632
  79 yrs
• Martiros Saryan ↗Armenian painter · 1880–1972
  92 yrs
• Vyacheslav Ivanov ↗Russian poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator · 1866–1949
  83 yrs
• Uesugi Kenshin ↗Japanese daimyo · 1530–1578
  48 yrs
• Abdul Sattar Edhi ↗Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian · 1928–2016
  88 yrs
• Ben Hecht ↗American writer, director, and producer · 1894–1964
  70 yrs
• René Just Haüy ↗French mineralogist · 1743–1822
  79 yrs
• Oliviero Toscani ↗Italian photographer · 1942–2025
  82 yrs
• Jean Bourgain ↗Belgian mathematician and Fields Medalist · 1954–2018
  64 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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