What happened on February 28 ?

1261 - Henry III, Duke of Brabant

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

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)

1857 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)

1916 - Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)

1925 - Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)

1929 - Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874)

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)

1959 - Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (b. 1888)

1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)

1974 - Bobby Bloom, American singer/songwriter (b. 1946)

1977 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)

1978 - Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)

1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)

1978 - Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)

1985 - David Byron, British singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)

1985 - Ray Ellington, British singer (b. 1916)

1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)

1991 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916)

1993 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1910)

1998 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)

1998 - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)

1999- Erez Gerstein, highest ranking Israeli to die in Lebanon as rank of Brigadier General

2002 - Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)

2002 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)

2003 - Chris Brasher, British athlete (b. 1928)

2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (heart attack) (b. 1917)

2003 - Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)

2004 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)

2004 - Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (killed in battle) (b. 1982)

2006 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (b. 1920)