Died on This Day (28-Feb)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
André Previn | André George Previn was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. | German-born American conductor | 89 | 1 |
![]() |
George Kennedy | George Harris Kennedy Jr. was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. | American actor | 91 | 4 |
![]() |
Donald A. Glaser | Donald Arthur Glaser was an American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics. | American physicist and neurobiologist | 86 | 7 |
![]() |
Jane Russell | Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American actress, singer, and model. | Actress, Model | 89 | 9 |
![]() |
Daniel Boorstin | Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. | US Congress Librarian | 89 | 16 |
![]() |
Mary Stuart | Mary Stuart was an American actress, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. | American actor | 75 | 18 |
![]() |
Abdul Rahim Khan | Air Marshal Abdur Rahim Khan, HJ, S.Pk, SBt, was a three-star air officer who served as the last Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force under President Yahya Khan, from 1969 until 1972. | Pakistani diplomat | 64 | 30 |
![]() |
Joseph Nathaniel French | Joseph Nathaniel French, Sr. was an architect with Albert Kahn Associates from 1914 to 1967. | American architect | 86 | 45 |
![]() |
John Harlan Willis | John Harlan Willis was a United States Navy hospital corpsman who was killed in action during World War II while serving with a Marine Corps rifle company. | United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient | 23 | 75 |
![]() |
Milorad Popović Šapčanin | Milorad Popović Šapčanin was a Serbian poet, writer, dramatist, pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Realism in his approach. | Serbian writer | 53 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
Nicholas Mosley | Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet, MC, FRSL was an English novelist. | English novelist | 93 | 3 |
![]() |
Hugo Brandt Corstius | Hugo Brandt Corstius was a Dutch author, known for his achievements in both literature and science. | Dutch computer scientist | 78 | 6 |
![]() |
Anders Kulläng | Anders Göran Kulläng was a rally and rallycross driver. | Rally driver | 68 | 8 |
![]() |
Gene Greytak | Gene Greytak was a real estate broker, who made a career as an actor by impersonating Pope John Paul II because of his facial resemblance to the pontiff. | American actor | 84 | 10 |
![]() |
Fidel Sánchez Hernández | Fidel Sánchez Hernández was a Salvadoran military officer and politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1967 to 1972. | President of El Salvador | 85 | 17 |
|
Jean Vallette d'Osia | Jean Vallette d'Osia was a French officer best known for his action in the French Resistance during World War II in Haute-Savoie, notably supervising the liberation of Lyon. | French general | 101 | 20 |
![]() |
David Byron | David Garrick , better known by his stage name David Byron, was a British singer and songwriter, best known in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist with the rock band Uriah Heep. | British singer | 38 | 35 |
![]() |
Ida Rauh | Ida Rauh was an American suffragist, actress, sculptor, and poet who helped found the Provincetown Players in 1915. | American suffragist | 92 | 50 |
|
Frederick Hallen | Frederick Hallen was a Canadian-born vaudeville entertainer who found popularity on the North American stage. | Canadian actor | 61 | 100 |
![]() |
Johann Christian Rosenmüller | Johann Christian Rosenmüller was a German anatomist born near Hildburghausen, Thuringia. | German scientist | 48 | 200 |