About the day » Tuesday February 28, 1882Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Naus, Neer († 1940)
• Aaltje Willems Huisman, smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Smekens, Chaam († 1953)
• Adriaan Burggraaf, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel (ZH NL)
• ? ? († 1943)
• Adriana Catharina van de Ven, Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1891)
• Aníbal de Lemos, São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 1946)
• Anna Maria Kooman, Serooskerke, Zeeland, NL
• Rougoor, Westendorp (Wisch) († 1882)
• Hines, Braxton, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten

• Gerrit van Rijn (81), Katwijk aan de Rijn
• Adam B. Schlagheck (2), Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Preuter (42), Erve Preuter, Holten
• Antje Lugtenburg (85), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje Sanders (0), Nieuwkoop (Zuideinde)
• Agidius Cornelius DE BRAECKELEER (0), Denderleeuw,9470,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Albert Roelofs (64), Nijmegen
• Aimé Valerie Cailliau (0), Woumen
• Aime Valere Cailliau (0), Woumen, 8600, Diksmuide, West Vlaanderen
• Antje Hendriks Post (77), St. Jacobiparochie

• 1873 » William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish sailor († 1912)
• 1878 » Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer († 1929)
• 1882 » Geraldine Farrar, American soprano and actress († 1967)
• 1882 » José Vasconcelos, Mexican philosopher, lawyer, and politician, Mexican Secretary of Public Education († 1959)
• 1883 » Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish rebel leader († 1916)
• 1884 » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia († 1942)
• 1887 » William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter († 1966)
• 1894 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1964)
• 1895 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright and director († 1974)
• 1896 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)

• 1857 » André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1879 » Hortense Allart, Italian-French author (b. 1801)
• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• April 3 » American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
• May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• June 30 » Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
• September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
• September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
• December 6 » Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.

The temperature on February 28, 1882 was about 4.3 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.