28 February: today's birthdays

• Antonio Candreva - Italian professional footballer
• William Degouve de Nuncques - French-born Belgian painter
• 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
• 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
• Marcel Pagnol - French writer and dramatist
• Linus Pauling - American scientist, writer and educator
• Ernest Renan - French philosopher and writer
• Diego Ribas da Cunha - Brazilian soccer player
• John Turturro - American actor, film director and screenwriter