Notable deaths on February 28

Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026

Iranian general (1964–2026)

Iranian military officer and commander of the IRGC (1961–2026)

American singer (1950–2025)

American writer and policeman (1937–2025)

Chilean nightclub owner (1954–2025)

Bangladeshi painter put to death in Singapore for murder (1989–2024)

American musician (1993–2024)

Puerto Rican baseball player and coach (1969–2024)

British theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)

American businessman (1930–2020)

Australian public servant (1917–2020)

American musician (1929–2019)

American actor (1925–2016)

Turkish writer and activist (1923–2015)

Dutch computer scientist

American physicist and biologist (1926–2013)

French actress (1931–2011)

American radio broadcaster (1918–2009)

American intellectual (1917–2007)

American physicist (1920–2006)

British musician (1941–2005)

American historian and 12th Librarian of Congress (1914–2004)

London marathon co-founder, athlete, journalist