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1468 |
Pope Paul III last Renaissance pope (1534-1549) |
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1692 |
John Byrom, English poet, hymnist, and inventor of a system of shorthand. (d. 1763) |
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1692 |
Edward Cave, England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine) |
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1696 |
Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer |
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1712 |
General Montcalm - Hero of the French & Indian war |
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1728 |
Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner) |
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1736 |
Ann Lee, Shaker movement, Manchester England, Founded the Shaker movement and brought it to America in 1776. (d. 1784) |
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1756 |
Christian F. Hansen - Danish architect |
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1784 |
Franz KL von Klenze, German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg) |
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1792 |
Karl Baer - Embryologist, found mammals develop from eggs |
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1792 |
Gioacchino Rossini - Italian composer (The Barber of Seville, William Tell) (d.1868). |
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1792 |
Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, Naturalist (discovered human ovum) |
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1796 |
[Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian Astronomer / Meteorology |
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1808 |
Charles Pritchard - British Astronomer |
|
1812 |
Hermann Hirschboch, German composer |
|
1820 |
Adolf Schimon, composer |
|
1828 |
Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela |
|
1828 |
John Phillip Holland, Ireland - Designed and built the first submarine for U.S. Navy (d.1914) Some lists show him born February 29 in 1828, others in 1840. |
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1844 |
French Ensor Chadwick - Naval officer at battle of Santiago de Cuba. |
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1852 |
Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (d. 1936) |
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1856 |
Sedley Brown - Twin brother of J. Edwin Brown, American playwright, author, stage director, actor |
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1856 |
J. Edwin Brown - Twin brother of Sedley Brown, USA, Actor |
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1860 |
Herman Hollerith - American statistician. Inventor of the 1st Electric Tabulating Machine. (d. 1929) |
|
1864 |
Jan Svatopluk - Czech poet |
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1864 |
Albert Patry - Elbing, East Prussia, Germany [now Elblag, Poland], Actor |
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1864 |
Alice Davenport - USA, silent screen comedic actress |
|
1884 |
Alfred Sendrey, composer |
|
1876 |
John Harwood - UK, Actor |
|
1888 |
John Costigan, American regionalist printmaker, and a cousin of the noted American showman,
George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and were
instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. |
|
1892 |
Augusta Christine Savage - Augusta Christine Fells - American sculptor and educator who battled racism to secure a place for African American women in the art world. She became the first Black member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptures in 1934. |
|
1896 |
Ranchhodji Mararji Desai - 6th Prime Minister of India from March 24, 1977 to July 15 1979. At 83,
he was the oldest Prime Minister of India. (d. 1995) |
|
1896 |
Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer |
|
1896 |
Omer C F L Tulippe, Belgian geographer |
|
1896 |
Stanley Swash, CEO (Woolworths) |
|
1896 |
William A. Wellman - American Film Director, (first picture to win an Oscar (1928) "WINGS") (d. 1975) |
|
1896 |
Archie Ricks - Actor, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Director |
|
1904 |
Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd
Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William
Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorft Sr., Germany; had a Christian
name for every letter in the alphabet, shortened it to Mr Wolfe Plus 585 Sr. The world's
longest name officially used by a person. |
|
1904 |
John "Pepper" Martin - Feisty 3rd baseman for St. Louis 'Gashouse Gang'.
(NL stolen base leader 1933, 34, 36) (d. 1965) |
|
1904 |
Alan Richardson, composer |
|
1904 |
Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra (d. 1986) |
|
1904 |
Jimmy Dorsey (James Francis Dorsey) - Legendary saxophonist, conductor, songwriter and composer.
He formed an orchestra with his brother, Tommy Dorsey, lasting from 1933 to 1935, and then led his
own orchestra, rejoining Tommy's orchestra in 1953 and taking over the orchestra at Tommy's death.
(d. 1957) |
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1908 |
Alf Gover, English cricketer (bowled in 4 Tests for England/famous coach) (d. 2001) |
|
1908 |
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) - French-Polish painter, considered one of the 20th century's greatest
realist painters. (d. 2001) |
|
1908 |
Masahiro Makino - Japan - Film director |
|
1908 |
Bernard C. Boyd - Glassmaker and Chemist. Founded Boyd Glass with his son. |
|
1908 |
Dee Alexander Brown II - He became known to the larger public as a novelist and historian. His great novel "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is still perhaps the best historical portrayal of the violent relationship between Native Americans and the expansionist Americans with their roots in the Old World. |
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1908 |
Edward B. Taylor - Photographer - documented Dayton, Ohio's African American culture in photographs for nearly 40 years. He was Dayton's first Black commercial photographer. |
|
1908 |
Renee Evans - Film actress and Mother of stage actress 'Diane Alban' |
|
1912 |
Gaetano Amata - Italy - Film Writer, Director, Assistant Director, Production Manager, Producer |
|
1912 |
Mary McAdoo - USA, She was named the "Most Outstanding Female Personality"
by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1955. |
|
1916 |
Leonard S. Shoen - Entrepreneur, founded U-Haul Rental System. |
|
1916 |
Dinah Shore (Frances Rose Shore) - USA, Actress, Singer, Talk Show Host.
Some sources list her birth date as March 1, 1917 |
|
1920 |
Kosti Klemela - Finland - Actor |
|
1920 |
Don Ornitz - Photographer and Miscellaneous Crew |
|
1920 |
Alberto Ribeiro - Portugal - Composer, Actor, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Director, |
|
1920 |
Arthur Franz, USA, Actor, (That Champion Season, Invaders From Mars, Young Lions) |
|
1920 |
Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72) |
|
1920 |
James Mitchell, USA, Actor (Palmer-All My Children) |
|
1920 |
Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991) |
|
1920 |
Michelle Morgan - French Actress ("Symphonie Pastorale") France |
|
1924 |
William D. Hathaway - U.S. Senator (R) from Maine (1973-1979). |
|
1924 |
Otto Hutter, Physiologist |
|
1924 |
Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador |
|
1924 |
David Beattie, British governor-general of NZ |
|
1924 |
Al Rosen - Ballplayer, slugging Cleveland 3rd baseman. |
|
1928 |
Joss Ackland - British actor |
|
1928 |
Alan Loveday, British(?) violinist |
|
1928 |
McHenry Boatwright - Opera Singer, American baritone. |
|
1928 |
Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks), American actress and star of burlesque. She took the
name Tempest Storm as her stage name around 1950, legally changing her name in 1957. |
|
1932 |
Newel Kay Brown - Wrote the children's song, "I Hope They Call Me On A Mission," which every child in the world-wide Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often called Mormon) has sung since 1970. |
|
1932 |
Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist |
|
1932 |
Gavin Stevens, cricket (Australian bat on 59-60 India/Pakistan tour) |
|
1932 |
Masten Gregory, American F1 Driver |
|
1932 |
Gene Golub, American mathematician (d. 2007) |
|
1936 |
Erik Häkkinen - Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Cinematographer |
|
1936 |
Alwin Schockemohle, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1976) |
|
1936 |
Alex Rocco, American Actor |
|
1936 |
Jack Lousma - Astronaut; was a crew member of the Skylab 3 flight in 1973
and Columbia Space Shuttle in 1982. |
|
1936 |
Henri "The Pocket Rocket" Richard - NHL Hall of Fame Center, Montreal Canadians. |
|
1936 |
Sharon Webb - Science Fiction Novelist (Earthchild) |
|
1940 |
Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople |
|
1940 |
Gretchen Christopher - Multi-Million-Seller Gold Record Artist, BMI "Million Airs" Songwriter (nearly 3 million US Radio broadcasts of "Come Softly To Me"), Female Lead Vocalist/Arranger, Dancer/Choreographer and Founder of "The Fleetwoods", first group in the history of Rock & Roll to have multiple #1 Records top Billboard's Hot 100 in a single year (1959). Inducted into (4) Halls of Fame (1988-2008). Leap Year Autobiographical Solo CD, Gretchen's SWEET SIXTEEN (Suite 16) among Billboard Critics' Picks for 10 Best Albums of 2007, including "Sweet Sixteen" (Leap Year Love Song) at www.GretchenChristopher.com. Gretchen Christopher is Member #1004 in the Honor Society of Leap Day Babies. |
|
1940 |
Billy Turner - Thoroughbred horse trainer, "Seattle Slew". |
|
1940 |
Sanda Aronson - New York, USA - started the Disabled Artists' Network in April, 1985 - Sanda Aronson is sui generis as an artist in that she is both a romantic (she generates the astonishment evoked by the great collagists who marry the disparate to create a new language) and a fiercely political artist/activist. She is fluent in many mediums but her underlying message is love of beauty and love of humanity. www.artistlightbox.com/sandaaronson |
|
1944 |
David Briggs, record producer |
|
1944 |
Ene Ergma, Estonian polotician |
|
1944 |
Dennis Farina, USA, Actor |
|
1944 |
Phyllis Frelich - deaf American actress, Member of National Theatre of the Deaf, Devil's Lake ND, (Love is Never Silent) |
|
1944 |
Sharon Hugueny - Actress |
|
1944 |
John Niland - NFL guard for Dallas Cowboys. |
|
1944 |
Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian illustrator |
|
1948 |
Willi Smith - Fashion designer. |
|
1948 |
Yuri Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976) |
|
1948 |
Patricia [Anne] McKillip, US, sci-fi author (Fool's Run) |
|
1948 |
Nikolai Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976) |
|
1948 |
Gérard Darmon - Actor, France |
|
1952 |
Bart Stupak, American polotician (Rep-D-Michigan) |
|
1952 |
Raisa Smetanina, USSR, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976, 80, 92) |
|
1952 |
Raul Gonzalez, Mexican 50K speed walker (world record) |
|
1952 |
Tim[othy] Powers, US, sci-fi author (Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves) |
|
1952 |
Randy Jackson, rocker (Zebra - I Don't Know, I Don't Care) |
|
1952 |
Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush - Born in Greensboro, North Carolina. She became America's first
African-American weather anchor when Detroit, Michigan's WGPR-TV hit the airwaves in 1975;
WGPR-TV was the nation's first black-owned and operated television station. |
|
1956 |
Peter Brouwer (LDB # 1 in the Honor Society of Leap Day Babies) - Founded Leap Year Babies Honor
Society (in 1997) and merged with Raenell to become the Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies. |
|
1956 |
Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian radio and television personality |
|
1956 |
Mike Compton, American mandolinist and former member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band |
|
1956
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Neil Rosenthal (LDB # 57 in the Honor Society of Leap Day Babies) - Poet published by The National
Library of Poetry. |
|
1956 |
Bob Speller, Canadian politician - his father-in-law is also a Leap Day Baby |
|
1956 |
J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebritiy journalist |
|
1960 |
Raenell Dawn (LDB # 39 in the Honor Society of Leap Day Babies) - Founded Leap Year Babies Limited
(in 1987) and merged with Peter in 1997 to become the Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies. |
|
1960 |
Dan Daoust - NHL center for Toronto Maple Leafs. |
|
1960 |
Heidi Henriksen - The 1st of 3 siblings born on consecutive Leap Days. |
|
1960 |
Ian McKenzie Anderson, British musician and record producer |
|
1960 |
Anthony Robbins - American Motivational Speaker |
|
1960 |
Khaled, Algerian raï musician |
|
1964 |
James Robert Bruce Ogilvy, the only son of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
and the late Sir Angus Ogilvy. He is second cousin to Queen Elizabeth II. |
|
1964 |
Lyndon Byers, Canadian hockey player |
|
1964 |
Olav Henriksen - The 2nd of 3 siblings born on consecutive Leap Days. |
|
1964 |
James RB Ogilvy, son of English princess Alexandra |
|
1964 |
Antonella Ponziani - Actress, Director, Italy |
|
1964 |
Henrik Sundstrom, Sweden, tennis star |
|
1964 |
Mervyn Warren - Five-time Grammy Award winner (as of 2004), original member of the vocal group "Take 6" |
|
1964 |
Jahred Shane, Afro-Brazilian rapper/singer of (həd) p.e. |
|
1968 |
Suanne Braun, South African-born actress |
|
1968 |
Chucky Brown, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks) |
|
1968 |
Cary Conklin, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers) |
|
1968 |
Gareth Farr - Composer and Percussionist, born in Wellington, New Zealand |
|
1968 |
Pete Fenson, American curler |
|
1968 |
Naoko Iijima, Japanese actress |
|
1968 |
Leif-Martin Henriksen - The 3rd of 3 siblings born on consecutive Leap Days. |
|
1968 |
Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist and filmmaker |
|
1968 |
Bryce Paup, American football player, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) |
|
1972 |
Cyrus Beasley, Rowe NY, rower (Olympics-1996) |
|
1972 |
Fabien Bownes, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears) |
|
1972 |
Chris Devine, Allentown Pa, diver (Olympics-96) |
|
1972 |
Mark Farraway, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) |
|
1972 |
Antonio Sabato, Jr. - Italian-born actor |
|
1972 |
Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (d. 2002) |
|
1972 |
Saul Williams - Rap Poet, Actor, USA - Member, Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies |
|
1972 |
Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American AIDS activist (d. 1994) |
|
1976 |
David Kendall Sr. - Actor, USA |
|
1976 |
Bryan Gillooly, Auburn NY, diver (Olympics-96) |
|
1976 |
Ja Rule - American Rapper and Actor |
|
1980 |
Eric Benz - Actor, Germany |
|
1980 |
Simon Gagne, Canadian Hockey player, NHL player (Philly Flyers) who has been an all-star |
|
1980 |
Taylor Twellman, American soccer player |
|
1984 |
Darren Ambrose, English footballer |
|
1984 |
Cam Ward, Canadian hockey player |
|
1984 |
Adam Sinclair, Indian Hockey player |
|
1988 |
Scott Golbourne, English footballer |
|
1992 |
Caitlin E.J. Meyer - Actress |
