About the day » Friday February 28, 1902Calender converter

• Albert Scheffer, Giekerk, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1974)
• Aaltje Gelijk, Veendam
• Adolf Henri van Kol, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Adriana van Keulen, Meerveldhoven
• Adriana (Sjaan) Eikelenboom, Rotterdam († 1984)
• Adriana SUIJKERBUIJK, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
• * Willem Kuijl, Groot Ammers († 1960)
• Adriana Alkemade, Rozenburg, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Bouchina Wieringa, Ommelanderwijk, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana van DORST, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND († 1960)

• Annechien Oppentogt (81), Molenstreek gem. Veendam
• Adrianus van Opzeeland (68), Bennebroek, gem. Bloemendaal, NH, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Rhijn (13), Gouda, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Andries Posthuma (47), Westernieland
• Anna Lagerweij (43), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Allert Stoit (90), Westernieland, Eenrum,, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van AALST (67), Oud en Nieuw Gastel,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Allert Lamberts Stoit (90), Eenrum, Westernieland
• Albert Callenbach (1), Nijkerk
• Abraham J Davis (71), Owen County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten

• 1895 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright and director († 1974)
• 1896 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1898 » Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer († 1969)
• 1900 » Wolf Hirth, German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth († 1959)
• 1901 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Bugsy Siegel, American gangster († 1947)
• 1907 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist († 1988)
• 1908 » Billie Bird, American actress († 2002)
• 1909 » Stephen Spender, English author and poet († 1995)

• 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)
• 1941 » Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Wilhelmus
14. Dirk
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Adriana
7. Elisabeth
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Geertruida
13. Petronella
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
• March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
• March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
• May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
• July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
• November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
• November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

The temperature on February 28, 1902 was between 4.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (17%).