** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence

** The Vision of Don Roderick by Walter Scott ( 1811 )

** Don Juan by Lord Byron ( 1824 )

** Don Cossack Host

** Index of Math Puzzles, by Don Knuth

** Don Cheadle, American actor

** Don Dunstan, Australian politician ( b. 1926 )

** Don Pardo, American TV announcer ( Saturday Night Live )

** Don Drysdale, American baseball player ( b. 1936 )

** Don DeFore, American actor ( b. 1917 )

** In New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

** Don Rickles, American comedian and actor

** Don Fernando, director and actor of pornographic films

** Don Brewer, American drummer ( Grand Funk Railroad )

** Don Francisco, American Christian musician

** Don Powell, English rock drummer ( Slade )

** Don Wakamatsu, American baseball player

** Don C. Harvey, American television and film actor, cardiac arrest ( b. 1911 )

** Don Mattingly, American baseball player

** Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica.

** Don Bolles, American newspaper reporter ( assassinated ) ( b. 1928 )

** Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend into the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste, reaching the depth of 10, 911 meters ( 35, 797 feet ) and become the first human beings to reach the lowest spot on Earth.

** Don Ralke, American music arranger ( d. 2000 )

** Don Everly, American rock ' n ' roll musician

** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

** Herbert Marcuse –

** Herbert Block

** Herbert

** Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome.

** Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor ( d. 2012 )

** Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor ( d. 1989 )

** Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor ( d. 2011 )

** Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge.

** U. S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on " Super Tuesday ".

** At a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept of recombinant DNA.

** U. S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

** Herbert Zangs, German artist

** Herbert A. Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2001 )

** Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international, grandfather of Kerry Packer ( b. 1874 )

** Herbert Biberman, Jewish-American screenwriter and film director ( b. 1900 )

** Frank Herbert, American author ( b. 1920 )

** U. S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations.

** Robert Herbert McElroy, Canadian politician and merchant ( d. 1920 )

** Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter ( b. 1905 )

** Herbert Stanley, Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1872 )

** U. S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ), who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims " The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself " in his inauguration speech.

** Henry Herbert, English official ( d. 1673 )

** Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian ( d. 1682 )