Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 28

Births

• 1533 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (d. 1592)
• 1882 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967) (pictured)
• 1901 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
• 1942 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
• 1948 - Bernadette Peters, American singer

Deaths

• 1916 - Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
• 1925 - Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1963 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
• 1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)