Births
Leapling Births:
A person who was born on 29 February may be called a "leapling". In non-leap years they usually celebrate their birthday on 28 February or 1 March.
For legal purposes, their legal birthdays depend on how different laws count time intervals. In England and Wales the legal birthday of a leapling is 28 February in common years (see Leap Years, above). In Taiwan the legal birthday of a leapling is also 28 February in common years, so a Taiwanese leapling born on 29 February 1980 (example) would have legally reached 18 years old on 28 February 1998.
"If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence. But if there is no corresponding day in the last month, the period ends with the ending of the last day of the last month.[1]"
There are many instances in children's literature where a person's claim to be only a quarter of their actual age turns out to be based on counting their leap-year birthdays. A similar device is used in the plot of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance.
* 1468 - Pope Paul III (d. 1549)
* 1692 - John Byrom, English poet (d. 1763)
* 1736 - Ann Lee, American founder of Shakers (d. 1784)
* 1792 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (d. 1868)
* 1840 - John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914)
* 1852 - Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (d. 1936)
* 1860 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (d. 1929)
* 1896 - Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (d. 1995)
* 1896 - William A. Wellman, American film director (d. 1975)
* 1904 - Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)
* 1904 - Pepper Martin, baseball player (d. 1965)
* 1904 - Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra (d. 1986)
* 1908 - Balthus, French-Polish painter (d. 2001)
* 1908 - Dee Brown, American writer (d. 2002)
* 1908 - Alf Gover, English cricketer (d. 2001)
* 1916 - Dinah Shore, American singer (d. 1994)
* 1920 - Arthur Franz, American actor (d. 2006)
* 1920 - James Mitchell, American actor
* 1920 - Michèle Morgan, French actress
* 1920 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
* 1924 - Al Rosen, American baseball player
* 1924 - Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador
* 1928 - Joss Ackland, English actor
* 1928 - Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer
* 1932 - Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist
* 1936 - Jack Lousma, astronaut
* 1936 - Henri Richard, Canadian hockey player
* 1936 - Alex Rocco, American actor
* 1940 - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
* 1944 - Phyllis Frelich, American actress
* 1944 - Dennis Farina, American actor
* 1944 - Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian illustrator
* 1944 - Ene Ergma, Estonian politician
* 1952 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush, American television's first African-American primetime weather anchor.
* 1952 - Tim Powers, American writer
* 1952 - Raisa Smetanina, Russian cross-country skier
* 1952 - Bart Stupak, American politician
* 1956 - Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian entertainer
* 1956 - Bob Speller, Canadian politician
* 1956 - Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002)
* 1956 - J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebritiy journalist
* 1960 - Ian McKenzie Anderson, British musician
* 1960 - Richard Ramirez, American serial killer
* 1960 - Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker
* 1964 - Lyndon Byers, Canadian hockey player
* 1968 - Chucky Brown, American basketball player
* 1968 - Pete Fenson, American curler
* 1968 - Naoko Iijima, Japanese actress
* 1968 - Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist
* 1968 - Bryce Paup, American football player
* 1972 - Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Italian-born actor
* 1972 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (d. 2002)
* 1972 - Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American AIDS activist (d. 1994)
* 1976 - Ja Rule, American rapper and actor
* 1980 - Patrick Côté, Canadian mixed martial artist
* 1980 - Simon Gagné, Canadian hockey player
* 1980 - Chris Conley, American musician, member of the band Saves the Day.
* 1980 - Taylor Twellman, American soccer player
* 1984 - Darren Ambrose, English footballer
* 1984 - Cam Ward, Canadian hockey player
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