February 29 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 29, 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
#351 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 29 birthdays
Herman Hollerith · American statistician and inventor1860
Morarji Desai · Prime Minister of India1896
Dinah Shore · American singer and actress1916
Michèle Morgan · French actress1920
Seymour Papert · MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator1928
Bartholomew I of Constantinople · Ecumenist ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople since 19911940
Ene Ergma · Estonian politician and astrophysicist1944
Tony Robbins · American author, professional speaker1960
Khaled · Algerian musician1960
Pedro Sánchez · Prime Minister of Spain since 20181972
Benedikt Höwedes · German association football player1988
Ferran Torres · Spanish footballer2000
Abdukodir Khusanov · Uzbek association football player2004
On this day in history
1940At the 12th Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to be awarded an Oscar, winning Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind.
1944World War II: The Admiralty Islands campaign began when American forces assaulted Los Negros Island, the third largest of the Admiralty Islands.
1992Costello's, a New York City bar popular with journalists, writers, novelists, and cartoonists, closed.
2020The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
1908James Madison University is founded at Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women by the Virginia General Assembly.
1980La Bougie du Sapeur, a humorous French newspaper that is published only on leap days, printed its first issue.
2004Angelina Jolie wears a White Marc Bouwer dress to the 76th Academy Awards, which has since been placed on numerous lists for best red carpet fashion.
2012Construction of Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower and third-tallest structure, was completed.
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