Award WinnersBirthday : February 28Check all the award winners born on February 28. |
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28-February-1989Zhang Li-Yin (China)Zhang Liyin, better known in South Korea as Jang Ri-in, is a Chinese solo singer active in China... |
28-February-1982Verena Bentele (Germany)Verena Bentele is a blind German Paralympic biathlete and cross-country skier. She won her first... |
28-February-1981Erik Demaine (Canada, United States of America)Erik D. Demaine is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology... |
28-February-1980Matt Brouwer (Canada)Matt Brouwer is a Canadian singer/songwriter who got his start in the music industry while... |
28-February-1980Padmapriya Janakiraman (India)Padmapriya Janakiraman, simply credited as Padmapriya is an Indian film actress and model. A... |
28-February-1979Amat Escalante (Mexico)Amat Escalante is a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter who won the best director... |
28-February-1978Nanditha (India)Nanditha is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in the Kannada film industry, she... |
28-February-1978Tracey Deer (Canada)Tracey Penelope Tekahentakwa Deer is a Mohawk film director and newspaper publisher. Deer has... |
28-February-1977Jo Sungmo (South Korea)Jo Sung Mo, born on February 28, 1977, is a South Korean singer who mainly focuses on ballads... |
28-February-1977Jason Aldean (United States of America)Jason Aldine Williams, known professionally as Jason Aldean, is an American country music... |
28-February-1976Jhamal K. Robinson (United States of America)Jhamal K. Robinson is a television producer. |
28-February-1976Ali Larter (United States of America)Alison Elizabeth "Ali" Larter is an American actress. She is best known for playing the dual... |
28-February-1974Tom Kitt (United States of America)Thomas Robert "Tom" Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and musician. For his... |
28-February-1974Sunil (India)Sunil Varma (Telugu: సునీల్ వర్మ) is an actor from the Telugu film industry. His roles usually... |
28-February-1974Michael Manasseri (United States of America)Michael Manasseri is an American actor and film director. Manasseri was born in Poughkeepsie,... |
28-February-1973Eric Lindros (Canada)Eric Bryan Lindros is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. Lindros played junior... |
28-February-1972Rory Cochrane (United States of America)Rory Cochrane is an American actor. He is known for playing Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused,... |
28-February-1971Nigel Godrich (United Kingdom)Nigel Timothy Godrich is an English recording engineer, record producer and musician. He is best... |
28-February-1970Daniel Handler (United States of America)Daniel Handler is an American author. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony... |
28-February-1969Patrick Monahan (United States of America)Patrick Thomas "Pat" Monahan is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as... |
28-February-1969Robert Sean Leonard (United States of America)Robert Lawrence Leonard, better known by his stage name Robert Sean Leonard, is an American... |
28-February-1967Andrew Tridgell (Australia)Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell is an Australian computer programmer best known as the author of and... |
28-February-1966Edward Shearmur (United Kingdom)Edward Shearmur is a British film composer. Born in London, England, at age 7 he sang in the... |
28-February-1966Philip Reeve (England)Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator of children's books. He presently lives on... |
28-February-1965Colum McCann (United States of America, Republic of Ireland)Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now... |
28-February-1961Rae Dawn Chong (Canada, United States of America)Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films... |
28-February-1959Anthony W. Marx (United States of America)Anthony W. Marx is a 1997 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences. |
28-February-1959Phil Roy (United States of America)Phil Roy is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. |
28-February-1957John Turturro (United States of America, Italy)John Michael Turturro is an Italian-American actor, writer and director known for his roles in... |
28-February-1957Jabu Khanyile (South Africa)Jabu Khanyile was a South African musician and lead vocalist from the band Bayete. |
28-February-1957Andrew Mondshein (United States of America)Andrew Steven Mondshein is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits. He was widely... |
28-February-1956Guy Maddin (Canada)Guy Maddin, OM, CM is a Canadian screen-writer, director, author, cinematographer and film... |
28-February-1955Adrian Dantley (United States of America)Adrian Delano Dantley is a retired American basketball player who played 15 seasons in the NBA,... |
28-February-1954Jean Bourgain (Belgium)Jean Bourgain is a Belgian mathematician. He has been a faculty member at the University of... |
28-February-1954Ricardo Donato Salvatore (Argentina)Ricardo Donato Salvatore is a 2004 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
28-February-1953Paul Krugman (United States of America)Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at... |
28-February-1953Osmo Vänskä (Finland)Osmo Antero Vänskä is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist and composer. He started his musical... |
28-February-1953Chris Bould (England)Chris Bould is a television director, producer and screenwriter. |
28-February-1952William Finn (United States of America)William Alan Finn is an American composer and lyricist of musicals. His musical Falsettos... |
28-February-1952Pete Williams (United States of America)Louis Alan "Pete" Williams is an American journalist and former government official. Since 1993,... |
28-February-1951Nicholas Christopher (United States of America)Nicholas Christopher is an American novelist, poet and critic, the author of sixteen books: six... |
28-February-1950Imanol Uribe (Spain, El Salvador)Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director. He was born in San... |
28-February-1950Peter Raymont (Canada)Peter Raymont is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and producer and the president of White... |
28-February-1949Stephen Talbot (United States of America)Stephen Henderson Talbot is an award-winning TV documentary producer, writer and reporter who... |
28-February-1949Danny Troob (United States of America)Daniel "Danny" Troob is an American arranger and orchestrator, best known for his close... |
28-February-1948Mercedes Ruehl (United States of America)Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American theater, television, and film actress. She won the Academy... |
28-February-1948Steven Chu (United States of America)Steven Chu is an American physicist who served as the 12th United States Secretary of Energy... |
28-February-1948Mike Figgis (United Kingdom)Michael "Mike" Figgis is an English film director, writer, and composer. |
28-February-1948Johnny Delgado (Philippines)Juan Marasigan Feleo was an award-winning Filipino television and movie actor and writer. He is... |
28-February-1948Bernadette Peters (United States of America)Bernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author. Over the course of... |
28-February-1947Gloria Frym (United States of America)Gloria Frym is an American poet, fiction writer, and essayist. |
28-February-1947Leena Krohn (Finland)Leena Krohn is a Finnish author. Her large and varied body of work includes novels, short... |
28-February-1947Richard Etlin (United States of America)Richard Etlin is a 1985 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
28-February-1946Timberlake Wertenbaker (United Kingdom, United States of America)Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British playwright, screenplay writer, and translator. |
28-February-1945Marc Kirschner (United States of America)Marc W. Kirschner is an American cell biologist and biochemist and the founding chair of the... |
28-February-1945Innocent (India)Innocent Thekkethala, popularly known as Innocent, is an Indian film actor and producer. He was... |
28-February-1945Mimsy Farmer (United States of America)Mimsy Farmer is an American actress. Her nickname came from a line in Lewis Carroll's... |
28-February-1944Kelly Bishop (United States of America)Carole "Kelly" Bishop is an American actress and dancer, best known for her roles as matriarch... |
28-February-1944Ravindra Jain (India)Ravindra Jain is an Indian music composer and lyricist. He won the Filmfare Best Music Director... |
28-February-1943Charles Bernstein (United States of America)Charles Bernstein is a composer of film and television music. His credits include the score for... |
28-February-1943Claudio Mattone (Italy)Claudio Mattone is an Italian composer, lyricist and music producer. Born in Santa Maria a Vico,... |
28-February-1942Stuart A. AaronsonStuart A. Aaronson, M.D., is an American author and internationally recognized cancer biologist... |
28-February-1942Robin Phillips (United Kingdom)Robin Phillips is an English actor and director. He was born in Haslemere, Surrey to Ellen Anne... |
28-February-1940Joe South (United States of America)Joe South was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Best known for his songwriting, South... |
28-February-1939John Fahey (United States of America)John Aloysius Fahey was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the... |
28-February-1939Daniel C. Tsui (United States of America)Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist whose areas of research included... |
28-February-1939Tommy Tune (United States of America)Thomas James "Tommy" Tune is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and... |
28-February-1938Patti Kim (South Korea)Patti Kim Hye-ja is a prominent South Korean pop singer. She is commonly referred to as a "Super... |
28-February-1936Co Rentmeester (Netherlands)Co Rentmeesteris a 1967 World Press Photo of the Year Award winner. |
28-February-1936Robin Klein (Australia)Robin McMaugh Klein is an Australian author of books for children. She was born 28 February... |
28-February-1935William G. Tucker (United Kingdom, United States of America)William Tucker RA (1935 - ) is a British sculptor. |
28-February-1934Glen Elder (United States of America)Glen Holl Elder, Jr., is the Howard W. Odum Research Professor of Sociology, a research... |
28-February-1933Sidney J. Furie (Canada)Sidney J. Furie is a Canadian film director. Furie is perhaps best known for directing American... |
28-February-1931Dean Smith (United States of America)Dean Edwards Smith is a retired American head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from... |
28-February-1931Gavin MacLeod (United States of America)Gavin MacLeod is an American character actor who in his six decades of television is notable for... |
28-February-1930Leon Cooper (United States of America)Leon N Cooper is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, who with John Bardeen and John... |
28-February-1929John Montague (Republic of Ireland)John Montague is an Irish poet. He was born in New York and brought up in Tyrone. He has... |
28-February-1929Frank Gehry (United States of America, Canada)Frank Owen Gehry, CC is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize–winning architect based in Los... |
28-February-1929Rangaswamy Srinivasan (United States of America)Rangaswamy Srinivasan is an inventor at IBM Research. One of the famous inventions he has... |
28-February-1928Alan M. Kriegsman (United States of America)Alan M. Kriegsman is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer. |
28-February-1928Anthony Bonner (United States of America)Anthony Bonner is a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
28-February-1928Tom Aldredge (United States of America)Thomas Ernest "Tom" Aldredge was an American television, film and stage actor, best known for... |
28-February-1928David Caplovitz (United States of America)David Caplovitz was a United States-based sociologist. He is known as the author of The Poor Pay... |
28-February-1927Paul T. Baker (United States of America)Paul T. Baker was Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State... |
28-February-1926Kin Sugai (Japan)Kin Sugai is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Hochi... |
28-February-1926Don Coldsmith (United States of America)Don Coldsmith was an American author of primarily Western fiction. A past president of Western... |
28-February-1926Erol TaÅŸ (Turkey)Erol TaÅŸ was a Turkish film actor. He appeared in 220 films between 1957 and 1998. He starred in... |
28-February-1925Richard Dalitz (United Kingdom, Australia)Richard Henry Dalitz was an Australian physicist known for his work in particle physics. Born in... |
28-February-1925Harry H. Corbett (United Kingdom)Harry H. Corbett, OBE was an English actor. Corbett was best known for his starring role in the... |
28-February-1925Louis Nirenberg (United States of America, Canada)Louis Nirenberg is a Canadian-born American mathematician, considered one of the outstanding... |
28-February-1925James E. Burke (United States of America)James E. Burke was the chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989, a company... |
28-February-1924Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. (United States of America)Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr. is a retired NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in... |
28-February-1923Charles Durning (United States of America)Charles Edward Durning was an American actor, with appearances in over 200 movies, television... |
28-February-1923Merrill Brockway (United States of America)Merrill Brockway was a television director and producer. |
28-February-1922Gemze de Lappe (United States of America)Gemze de Lappe is an American dancer who worked very closely with Agnes de Mille and was... |
28-February-1921Donal Henahan (United States of America)Donal Henehan is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer. |
28-February-1921Saul Zaentz (United States of America)Saul Zaentz was an American film producer and former record company executive. He won the... |
28-February-1921Tommy Gwaltney (United States of America)Thomas O. "Tommy" Gwaltney is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. He has... |
28-February-1917Ernesto Alonso (Mexico)Ernesto Ramirez Alonso was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was... |
28-February-1915Zero Mostel (United States of America)Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel was an American actor and comedian of stage and screen, best known for... |
28-February-1911Denis Parsons Burkitt (United Kingdom)Denis Parsons Burkitt FRS, surgeon, was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was... |
28-February-1909Ketti Frings (United States of America)Ketti Frings was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958. |
28-February-1908Alexander Golitzen (United States of America, Russian Empire)Alexander Golitzen, was a production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300... |
28-February-1908Alexander A. Parker (United States of America)Alexander A. Parker was a 1973 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
28-February-1907Milton Caniff (United States of America)Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and... |
28-February-1906Knight Biggerstaff (United States of America)Knight Biggerstaff is a 1962 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities. |
28-February-1906Paul Groesse (United States of America, Hungary)Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was... |
28-February-1904Anthony Havelock-Allan (United Kingdom)Sir Anthony James Allan Havelock-Allan, 4th Baronet was a prolific and successful British film... |
28-February-1903Vincente Minnelli (United States of America)Vincente Minnelli was a film director. |
28-February-1901Linus Pauling (United States of America)Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He... |
28-February-1896Philip Showalter Hench (United States of America)Philip Showalter Hench was an American physician. Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker... |
28-February-1895Marcel Pagnol (France)Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first... |
28-February-1895Allan Leonard Lewis (United Kingdom)Allan Leonard Lewis VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most... |
28-February-1894Ben Hecht (United States of America)Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called... |
28-February-1888William Angus (United Kingdom)William Angus VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most... |
28-February-1888George Pearkes (Canada)Major General George Randolph Pearkes, VC, PC, CC, CB, DSO, MC, CD was a Canadian politician;... |
28-February-1867Percy Sykes (United Kingdom)Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes KCIE, CB, CMG was a soldier, diplomat, scholar and... |
28-February-1830Henry Edward Jerome (United Kingdom)Major General Henry Edward Jerome was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most... |
28-February-1820Elisha Kane (United States of America)Elisha Kent Kane was an American explorer, and a medical officer in the United States Navy... |