28 February: today's birthdays

• Henri Breuil - French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist, and geologist, born Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil. He is also known as the Pope of Paleolithic Prehistory.
• Antonio Candreva - Italian professional footballer
• William Degouve de Nuncques - French-born Belgian painter
• Luka Dončić - Slovenian basketball player who plays for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA
• Amat Escalante - Mexican director, producer and screenwriter. He directed the films Sangre and Heli
• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur - French scientist
• Mike Figgis - English film director, writer and composer
• Frank Gehry - Canadian-born American architect
• Brian Jones - English musician
• Moise Kean - Italian professional footballer of Ivorian descent, born Moise Bioty Kean
• Karolína Isela Kurková - Czech Model
• Sepp Maier - Former German soccer player
• Vincente Minnelli - American film director
• Michel de Montaigne - French writer and philosopher, one of the most influential during the Renaissance in France
• Eshkol Nevo - Israeli writer. He wrotethe novels Homesick and Three Floors Up.
• Marcel Pagnol - French writer and dramatist
• Linus Pauling - American chemist and biochemist, born Linus Carl Pauling. He was also a peace activist and an educator. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is considered one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time.
• Ernest Renan - French philosopher and writer
• Diego Ribas da Cunha - Brazilian soccer player
• John Turturro - American actor, film director and screenwriter