Famous Birthdays In February - 28

1833  Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal was born on this day in history.  

1838  On February - 28 birth of maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)  

1840  On February - 28 birth of henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)  

1841  Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914) was born on this day in history.  

1850  On February - 28 birth of hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist)  

1851  On this day in history birth of samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)  

1854  Juliusz Zarebski, composer was born on this day in history.  

1857  On this day in history birth of gustave Adolph Kerker, composer  

1858  On this day in history birth of jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)  

1865  Arthur Symons, Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy) was born on this day in history.  

1865  Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary was born on this day in history.  

1866  Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16] was born on February - 28.  

1874  On this day in history birth of soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range)  

1875  On this day in history birth of viliam Figus, composer  

1876  John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift) was born on February - 28.  

1877  On February - 28 birth of sergei Bortkiewicz, composer  

1878  On this day in history birth of pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)  

1878  Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952) was born on this day in history.  

1882  Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer) was born on February - 28.  

1882  On this day in history birth of jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher  

1882  On this day in history birth of richard Heinrich Stein, composer  

1886  On this day in history birth of jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas)  

1886  Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo) was born on February - 28.  

1887  On February - 28 birth of william Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)  

1889  On this day in history birth of victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)  

1890  Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS) was born on this day in history.  

1893  On February - 28 birth of ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)  

1895  Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit) was born on February - 28.  

1895  On February - 28 birth of marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)  

1896  On February - 28 birth of philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)  

1898  On this day in history birth of molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)  

1899  On February - 28 birth of frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist  

1900  Laura Z Hobson, writer was born on this day in history.  

1900  Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959) was born on this day in history.  

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0642  Oswald, English missionary/saint, dies in battle on this day in history.  

1261  On this day in history hendrik, duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies  

1326  On February - 28 death of duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)  

1453  On this day in history death of isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)  

1485  On this day in history death of niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)  

1510  On this day in history death of juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer  

1525  Death of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler on February - 28.  

1572  On February - 28 death of aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)