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• Adriaan Sanderse, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL († 2004)
• van de Plas, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Eichelsheim, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Lee, Nieuwkuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Bertil of Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholms kommun, Stockholms län, Sweden († 1997)
• Adriana van Mierlo, Heeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha Buschman, Noordwijkerhout († 1996)
• Aaltje van TIL, Alkmaar (Noord-Holland, The Netherlands) († 2005)
• * Peter Machiel Vos, Rotterdam († 1994)
• Adrianus Franciscus Jacobus Bakker, Sloten

• Anna Catharina Velthuijsen (78), Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• anna maria NIEUWENBURG (41), rotterdam
• "Jan" Joekes Schepen (58), Groningen
• Anna Maria Nieuwenburg (41), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Gerardina Robben (39), Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie TUIT (56), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• anna catharina landoux (68), grathem
• Albert Johan Damme (7), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrikus Scholte (72), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Lubbers (77), Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten

• 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)
• 1911 » Otakar Vávra, Czech director and screenwriter († 2011)
• 1915 » Ketti Frings, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1915 » Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1915 » Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian († 1977)
• 1916 » Cesar Climaco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Zamboanga City († 1984)
• 1917 » Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer († 2007)

• 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)
• 1942 » Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
• June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
• September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
• September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
• October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
• November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.

The temperature on February 28, 1912 was between 8.5 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.