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• Aizoo Akker, Nieuw-Weerdinge, Emmen († 1994)
• Albert Albertsz van Veen, Urk († 2012)
• Annigje de Nekker *, Steenwijkerwold
• Annigje de Nekker († 1985)
• Alice Wye, Worplesdon, Surrey, England († 1974)
• Aleida Helena Smids, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoni Kulicki, Smorgoniach (Polen) († 2005)
• Alco Andrew Keegstra, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• (Stillborn) TALMAN, Dantumadiel Friesland Netherlands († 1914)
• Alfred Jozef De Corte, Elene, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 2001)

• Annigje Bone, de (83), Avereest Ov. Nederland
• carolus ludovicus braat (63), merksem
• Arie de Groot (62), Alblasserdam, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• Catharina Schriek (89), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Adriana Alberta van Baaren (0), Rhenen
• Aaltje Altena (80), Enschede
• Adriana Maria Gillis (0), Gilze en Rijen
• Cornelia van Leeuwen (74), Abcoude
• de Jongh, Rotterdam
• Arthur Josephus Temmerman (46), Westdorpe, Zeeland, Nederland

• 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)
• 1919 » Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls († 2013)
• 1919 » Brian Urquhart, English soldier and diplomat, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

• 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)

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

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

• 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• February 13 » Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
• July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
• August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
• August 12 » World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
• August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
• November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.

The temperature on February 28, 1914 was between -1.6 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.