February 28 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 28, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#168 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 28 birthdays
Marcel Pagnol · Novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France1895
Philip Showalter Hench · American physician1896
Linus Pauling · American scientist1901
Vincente Minnelli · American stage and film director1903
Charles Durning · American actor1923
Frank Gehry · Canadian and American architect1929
Leon Cooper · American physicist1930
Daniel C. Tsui · Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate1939
Mario Andretti · Italian-American racing driver1940
Dino Zoff · Italian association football player and manager1942
Steven Chu · American physicist1948
Mercedes Ruehl · American actress1948
Bernadette Peters · American actress and singer1948
Paul Krugman · American economist1953
Gilbert Gottfried · American stand-up comedian1955
John Turturro · American actor1957
Robert Sean Leonard · American actor1969
Daniel Handler · American novelist, also known by the pseudonym Lemony Snicket1970
Ali Larter · American actress and model1976
Emmelie de Forest · Danish singer1993
On this day in history
1893USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched.
1997Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the most intense gun battles in American police history.
2013Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.
2021Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in British transportation history.
1939In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word dord was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor.
1959Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
1972Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary group United Red Army.
1974The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.
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