Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) ---William Tell overture---Woody Woodpecker - The Barber of Seville
Ene Ergma (b. 29 February 1944 in Rakvere)

28 February 1883 - The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1940 - Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
1953 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA
2007 - Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
Artur Kapp (February 28, 1878 – January 14, 1952)
Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 – March 30, 1965)