February 28th
185 Notable deaths
Owen Chamberlain
American physicist.
Born July 10th, 1920 in San Francisco.
Died February 28th, 2006 at 85 years old in Berkeley (Parkinson's disease).
Nikolay Voronov
Soviet military commander, chief marshal of the artillery (1899-1968).
Born May 5th, 1899 in Saint Petersburg.
Died February 28th, 1968 at 68 years old in Moscow.
Józef Unrug
Polish vice-admiral (1884-1973).
Born October 7th, 1884 in Brandenburg an der Havel.
Died February 28th, 1973 at 88 years old in Lailly-en-Val.
Enrico Maria Salerno
Italian actor (1926-1994).
Born September 18th, 1926 in Milan.
Died February 28th, 1994 at 67 years old in Rome (lung cancer).
Eric Frank Russell
English science fiction writer (1905–1978).
Born January 6th, 1905 in Sandhurst.
Died February 28th, 1978 at 73 years old in Liverpool.
Angie Turner King
American chemist and mathematician.
Born December 9th, 1905 in McDowell County.
Died February 28th, 2004 at 98 years old in Kanawha County.
Frigyes Riesz
Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis (1880–1956).
Born January 22nd, 1880 in Győr.
Died February 28th, 1956 at 76 years old in Budapest.
Ed Bickert
Canadian musician (1932–2019).
Born November 29th, 1932 in Hochfeld.
Died February 28th, 2019 at 86 years old in Toronto (lung cancer).
Adolf Schärf
Austrian politician, president of austria 1957–1965.
Born April 20th, 1890 in Mikulov. [ref]
Died February 28th, 1965 at 74 years old in Vienna. [ref]
Princess Marie-Adélaïde of Luxembourg
Luxembourgian royal.
Born May 21st, 1924 in Colmar-Berg.
Died February 28th, 2007 at 82 years old in Fischbach.
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Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death. Desmond Morris