| 22861 | February 28 | Death | 1978 – Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905) |
| 22862 | February 28 | Death | 1978 – Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892) |
| 22863 | February 28 | Death | 1978 – Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905) |
| 22864 | February 28 | Death | 1979 – Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (b. 1897) |
| 22865 | February 28 | Death | 1985 – David Byron, English singer-songwriter (Uriah Heep and Spice) (b. 1947) |
| 22866 | February 28 | Death | 1986 – Laura Z. Hobson, American author (b. 1900) |
| 22867 | February 28 | Death | 1986 – Olof Palme, Swedish captain and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927) |
| 22868 | February 28 | Death | 1987 – Stephen Tennant, English author (b. 1906) |
| 22869 | February 28 | Death | 1991 – Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist and academic (b. 1916) |
| 22870 | February 28 | Death | 1991 – Wassily Hoeffding, Finnish-American statistician and theorist (b. 1914) |
| 22871 | February 28 | Death | 1993 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911) |
| 22872 | February 28 | Death | 1993 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910) |
| 22873 | February 28 | Death | 1998 – Dermot Morgan, Irish-English actor (b. 1952) |
| 22874 | February 28 | Death | 1998 – Arkady Shevchenko, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1930) |
| 22875 | February 28 | Death | 2001 – Charles Pozzi, French race car driver (b. 1909) |
| 22876 | February 28 | Death | 2002 – Mary Stuart, American actress and singer (b. 1926) |
| 22877 | February 28 | Death | 2002 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer (b. 1920) |
| 22878 | February 28 | Death | 2003 – Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928) |
| 22879 | February 28 | Death | 2003 – Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
| 22880 | February 28 | Death | 2003 – Rudolf Kingslake, English engineer and academic (b. 1903) |
| 22881 | February 28 | Death | 2003 – Roger Needham, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1935) |
| 22882 | February 28 | Death | 2003 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian general and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1917) |
| 22883 | February 28 | Death | 2004 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914) |
| 22884 | February 28 | Death | 2004 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (b. 1921) |
| 22885 | February 28 | Death | 2004 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian sergeant (b. 1982) |
| 22886 | February 28 | Death | 2005 – Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (b. 1941) |
| 22887 | February 28 | Death | 2006 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
| 22888 | February 28 | Death | 2007 – Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-English businessman, founded the Forte Group (b. 1908) |
| 22889 | February 28 | Death | 2007 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and critic (b. 1917) |
| 22890 | February 28 | Death | 2007 – Billy Thorpe, English-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946) |