People born on February 28

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)

Linus Pauling

American scientist

Mary I of England

Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

Frank Gehry

Canadian-American architect

Steven Chu

American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate

Leon Cooper

American physicist

Emmelie de Forest

Danish singer

Dino Zoff

Italian association football player and manager

Marcel Pagnol

Novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974)

Philip Reeve

English children's writer and illustrator

Daniel C. Tsui

Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate

Jelena Janković

Serbian tennis player

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926–2011)