| 22561 | February 28 | Event | 2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127. |
| 22562 | February 28 | Event | 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415. |
| 22563 | February 28 | Birth | 1155 – Henry the Young King, English son of Henry II of England (d. 1183) |
| 22564 | February 28 | Birth | 1261 – Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (d. 1283) |
| 22565 | February 28 | Birth | 1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and author (d. 1592) |
| 22566 | February 28 | Birth | 1552 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss mathematician and clockmaker (d. 1632) |
| 22567 | February 28 | Birth | 1573 – Elias Holl, German architect (d. 1646) |
| 22568 | February 28 | Birth | 1612 – John Pearson, English bishop, theologian, and scholar (d. 1686) |
| 22569 | February 28 | Birth | 1616 – Kaspar Förster, German singer-songwriter (d. 1673) |
| 22570 | February 28 | Birth | 1619 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1693) |
| 22571 | February 28 | Birth | 1627 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (d. 1703) |
| 22572 | February 28 | Birth | 1670 – Benjamin Wadsworth, English-American clergyman and academic (d. 1737) |
| 22573 | February 28 | Birth | 1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726) |
| 22574 | February 28 | Birth | 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (d. 1757) |
| 22575 | February 28 | Birth | 1704 – Louis Godin, French astronomer and academic (d. 1760) |
| 22576 | February 28 | Birth | 1712 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (d. 1759) |
| 22577 | February 28 | Birth | 1714 – Gioacchino Conti, Italian actor and singer (d. 1761) |
| 22578 | February 28 | Birth | 1724 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1807) |
| 22579 | February 28 | Birth | 1792 – Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist, meteorologist, and geographer (d. 1876) |
| 22580 | February 28 | Birth | 1812 – Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (d. 1882) |
| 22581 | February 28 | Birth | 1816 – John Woolley, English academic and clergyman, the first principal of the University of Sydney, Australia (d. 1866) |
| 22582 | February 28 | Birth | 1820 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914) |
| 22583 | February 28 | Birth | 1823 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher and scholar (d. 1892) |
| 22584 | February 28 | Birth | 1824 – Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker and acrobat (d. 1897) |
| 22585 | February 28 | Birth | 1827 – Édouard-Charles Fabre, Canadian archbishop (d. 1896) |
| 22586 | February 28 | Birth | 1833 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913) |
| 22587 | February 28 | Birth | 1838 – Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1910) |
| 22588 | February 28 | Birth | 1840 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892) |
| 22589 | February 28 | Birth | 1848 – Arthur Giry, French historian and academic (d. 1899) |
| 22590 | February 28 | Birth | 1851 – Samuel W. McCall, American journalist and politician, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923) |