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• Berend Kleine, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1990)
• Anton Morsink, Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland († 1994)
• Anna Helena Peters, Amersfoort († 1915)
• Antje (Nina) Kessler, Leeuwarden († 2002)
• de Rooij, Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland († 1915)
• Anna Cornelia Maria ( soeur Veronica) van Gerwen, Raamsd onksveer († 1974)
• anna margaretha peeters, someren
• Alida Pouw, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Alida Hendrika Maria Nijhuis, Hengelo († 1915)
• Barteld Kuik, St. Annaparochie († 1916)

• Antje Tol (39), Den Helder
• Adriaan Koolen (76), Tilburg
• Anna Angelique Waltenberg (89), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Adrianus Melchers (90), Huissen
• Adriaan Koolen (76), Tilburg, Nederland
• Antonetta Elisabeth Berendina Besse (0), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Tol (39), Den Helder
• Aafje Vennik (65), Limmen NH NL
• de Rooij (0), Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Baptist (82), Amsterdam

• 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
• 1920 » Jadwiga Piłsudska, Polish soldier, pilot, and architect († 2014)

• 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 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 6.3 million citizens.
• January 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
• January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
• May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
• July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
• July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
• July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.

The temperature on February 28, 1915 was between 0.6 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.