Deaths on 28 February
2000s
Ali Khamenei
2026
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
Aziz Nasirzadeh
2026
Iranian general (1964–2026)
Mohammad Pakpour
2026
Iranian military officer and commander of the IRGC (1961–2026)
David Johansen
2025
American singer (1950–2025)
Miguel Piñera
2025
Chilean nightclub owner (1954–2025)
Joseph Wambaugh
2025
American writer and policeman (1937–2025)
Ahmed Salim (murderer)
2024
Bangladeshi painter put to death in Singapore for murder (1989–2024)
Héctor Ortiz (baseball)
2024
Puerto Rican baseball player and coach (1969–2024)
Cat Janice
2024
American musician (1993–2024)
Joe Coulombe
2020
American businessman (1930–2020)
Freeman Dyson
2020
British theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Lenox Hewitt
2020
Australian public servant (1917–2020)
André Previn
2019
American musician (1929–2019)
George Kennedy
2016
American actor (1925–2016)
Yaşar Kemal
2015
Turkish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
Hugo Brandt Corstius
2014
Dutch computer scientist
Donald Glaser
2013
American physicist and biologist (1926–2013)
Annie Girardot
2011
French actress (1931–2011)
Paul Harvey
2009
American radio broadcaster (1918–2009)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
2007
American intellectual (1917–2007)
Owen Chamberlain
2006
American physicist (1920–2006)
Chris Curtis (musician)
2005
British musician (1941–2005)
Daniel J. Boorstin
2004
American historian and 12th Librarian of Congress
Chris Brasher
2003
London marathon co-founder, athlete, journalist
Mary Stuart (actress)
2002
American actress (1926–2002)
Helmut Zacharias
2002
German violinist (1920–2002)
1900s
Arkady Shevchenko
1998
Soviet diplomat and defector to the West
Ruby Keeler
1993
Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer (1909–1993)
Zara Cully
1978
American actress (1892–1978)
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
1977
American actor and comedian (1905–1977)
Neville Cardus
1975
English writer (1888–1975)
Charles Bassett
1966
United States Air Force test pilot and astronaut (1931–1966)
Elliot See
1966
American astronaut (1927–1966)
Isak Penttala
1955
Finnish politician (1883–1955)
Charles Nicolle
1936
French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1866–1936)
Guillaume Bigourdan
1932
French astronomer
Clemens von Pirquet
1929
Austrian physician (1874–1929)
1800s
Adolf Zytogorski
1882
Polish-British chess master and translator
André Dumont (geologist)
1857
Belgian geologist (1809–1857)
Before 1800
Pietro Ottoboni (cardinal)
1740
Italian Catholic cardinal (1667–1740)
Lovro Šitović
1729
Croatian grammarian and writer (c. 1682 – 1729)
Christian IV of Denmark
1648
King of Denmark and Norway from 1588 to 1648
Cosimo II de' Medici
1621
Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 to 1621
Khosrow II
628
Emperor of the Sasanian Empire from 590 to 628