February 28th, 1489

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Born on February 28th, 1489 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on February 28th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 28th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1489)

Born on February 28th, 1489

Weekday

Thursday

February 28th, 1489 was a Thursday.

Age

535

People born on February 28th, 1489 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 535 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1489 - March 20th, 1489

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 195,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 533 days, exactly on October 16th, 2025, people who were born on February 28th, 1489 will be 196,000 days old!

195,467 Days

27,923 Weeks

6,422 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 28th?

February 28th, 2021

Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in British transportation history.

February 28th, 2013

Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.

February 28th, 2002

During a period of religious violence in Gujarat, India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.

February 28th, 2001

A high-speed train crash occurred near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, killing 10 and injuring 82.

February 28th, 1997

Two 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.

February 28th, 1985

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched a mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Newry, Northern Ireland, killing nine people.

February 28th, 1975

A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal Moorgate station, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.

February 28th, 1974

The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.

February 28th, 1972

Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary group United Red Army.

February 28th, 1963

Chicago alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was murdered in his office by unknown assailants two days after having been reelected.

February 28th, 1947

Nationalist soldiers fired on protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), triggering widespread uprisings and violent suppression in the White Terror.

February 28th, 1928

Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

February 28th, 1914

In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.

February 28th, 1904

The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica (first team pictured), was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.

February 28th, 1897

Ranavalona III, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 28th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 28th?

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

Michel de Montaigne

French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)

*February 28th, 1533, Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne †September 12th, 1592, Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

Linus Pauling

American scientist

*February 28th, 1901, Portland †August 18th, 1994, Big Sur

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

*February 28th, 1955, Brooklyn †April 12th, 2022, Manhattan

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

Charles Durning

American actor (1923-2012)

*February 28th, 1923, Highland Falls †December 24th, 2012, New York City

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

Quinn Shephard

American actress

*February 28th, 1995, Metuchen

Hans-Joachim Martens

German film actor and stage actor

*February 28th, 1925, Berlin †March 3rd, 2018, Berlin

Don Francks

Canadian actor and jazz musician (1932–2016)

*February 28th, 1932, Burnaby †April 3rd, 2016, Toronto

Tommy Tune

American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

Markéta Irglová

Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress

*February 28th, 1988, Valašské Meziříčí

Steven Chu

American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

Same year
Born in 1489

Thomas Cranmer

Leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury

*July 2nd, 1489, Nottingham †March 21st, 1556, Oxford

Margaret Tudor

Scottish Queen consort (1489-1541)

*November 28th, 1489, London †October 18th, 1541, Methven Castle

Filippo Strozzi the Younger

Italian banker (1489-1538)

*January 4th, 1489, Florence †December 18th, 1538, Florence

Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel

*November 10th, 1489, Wolfenbüttel †June 11th, 1568, Wolfenbüttel

Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours

Infante of Navarre and French military commander

*December 10th, 1489, Mazères †April 11th, 1512, Battle of Ravenna

Charles II, Duke of Savoy

Italian noble

*June 23rd, 1489, Turin †April 16th, 1496, Moncalieri

Niccolò Massa

Italian anatomist

*March 14th, 1489, Venice †January 1st, 1569, Venice

Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck

German politician (1489-1553)

*August 10th, 1489, Strasbourg †October 30th, 1553, Strasbourg

Raymund Fugger

German businessman (1489-1535)

*October 24th, 1489, Augsburg †December 3rd, 1535, Mickhausen

Simon Pistoris der Jüngere

German jurist

*October 28th, 1489, Leipzig †December 3rd, 1562, Nünchritz

Sibylle of Bavaria

Princess of Bavaria-Munich by birth and by marriage Electress Palatine

*June 16th, 1489, Munich †April 18th, 1519, Heidelberg

Antoine, Duke of Lorraine

Duke of Lorraine

*June 4th, 1489, Bar-le-Duc †June 14th, 1544, Bar-le-Duc

Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg

General treasurer and archchancellor of a Austrian archduke in Spain (1489-1539)

*January 1st, 1489, Burgos †January 1st, 1539, Ensisheim

Lorenz Fries

German writer, historian and archivist

*January 1st, 1489, Bad Mergentheim †January 1st, 1550, Würzburg

Francesco Maria Molza

Italian poet

*June 18th, 1489, Modena †February 28th, 1544, Modena

Charles, Duke of Vendôme

French noble

*June 2nd, 1489, Vendôme †March 25th, 1537, Amiens

Paulus Rode

German theologian

*January 4th, 1489, Quedlinburg †January 12th, 1563, Szczecin

Matthias Held

*November 30th, 1489, Arlon †January 1st, 1563, Cologne

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 28th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on February 28th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXVIII.II.MCDLXXXIX

28.2.1489

Legend

M = 1000

CD = 400

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1489 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1489

February 1489

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
5					1	2	3
6	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
7	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
8	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
9	25	26	27	28