February 21st, 1517

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Born on February 21st, 1517 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on February 21st?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 21st
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1517)

Born on February 21st, 1517

Weekday

Wednesday

February 21st, 1517 was a Wednesday.

Age

507

People born on February 21st, 1517 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 507 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1517 - March 20th, 1517

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 185,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 753 days, exactly on May 23rd, 2026, people who were born on February 21st, 1517 will be 186,000 days old!

185,247 Days

26,463 Weeks

6,086 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 21st?

February 21st, 1973

After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

February 21st, 1952

A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

February 21st, 1929

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

February 21st, 1919

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

February 21st, 1878

The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

February 21st, 1866

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

February 21st, 1862

American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

February 21st, 1828

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

February 21st, 1746

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

February 21st, 1437

King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

February 21st, 2022

In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

February 21st, 2013

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

February 21st, 1995

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

February 21st, 1994

Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.

February 21st, 1975

Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 21st

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 21st?

Corbin Bleu

American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter

*February 21st, 1989, Brooklyn

Joe Alwyn

English actor

*February 21st, 1991, Royal Tunbridge Wells

Sawan Serasinghe

Sri Lanka-born Australian badminton player

*February 21st, 1994, Galle

Lalinrat Chaiwan

Badminton player

*February 21st, 2001, Lampang

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

Robert Mugabe

2nd president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017

*February 21st, 1924, Kutama †September 6th, 2019, Gleneagles Hospital

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

*February 21st, 1946, Hammersmith †January 14th, 2016, London

Friedrich Karl Kaul

German screenwriter

*February 21st, 1906, Poznań †April 16th, 1981, East Berlin

Ernst Meyer

German historian of classical antiquity (1898-1975)

*February 21st, 1898, Pinneberg †November 18th, 1975, Zürich

Giveon

American R&B singer

*February 21st, 1995, Long Beach

Kazushi Yamada

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1987, Ehime Prefecture

Jelle Maas

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1991, Oosterhout

Hana Ramadhini

Indonesian badminton player

*February 21st, 1995, Tasikmalaya City

Tey Seu Bock

Malaysian badminton coach

*February 21st, 1973, Alor Gajah

John Moody

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1983, Whangārei

Sally Kessler

*February 21st, 1912, Cologne †March 27th, 1985, Cologne

Sophie Turner

British actress

*February 21st, 1996, Northampton

Prince John of Denmark

Danish prince; eldest child of Christian II of Denmark and Isabella of Austria

*February 21st, 1518, Copenhagen †August 11th, 1532, Regensburg

Jess Thorup

Danish association football player and manager

*February 21st, 1970, Copenhagen

Same year
Born in 1517

Svante Stensson Sture

Swedish count (1517–1567)

*May 1st, 1517, Stockholm †May 24th, 1567, Uppsala

Matthäus Luidke

German theologian

*September 21st, 1517, Bad Wilsnack †November 12th, 1606, Havelberg

Odet de Coligny

Catholic cardinal

*July 10th, 1517, Châtillon-Coligny †February 14th, 1571, Canterbury

Antonio Scandello

Italian composer (1517-1580)

*January 17th, 1517, Bergamo †January 18th, 1580, Dresden

Ludwig Kasimir von Hohenlohe

(1517-1568)

*January 12th, 1517, Öhringen †August 24th, 1568, Neuenstein

Georg Aemilius

German theologian and botanist (1517-1569)

*June 25th, 1517, Mansfeld †May 22nd, 1569, Stolberg

Antonio Agustín y Albanell

Canon law historian (1517-1586)

*February 26th, 1517, Zaragoza †May 31st, 1586, Tarragona

Peter Ernest I of Mansfeld-Vorderort

Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (1517-1604)

*August 12th, 1517, Heldrungen †May 25th, 1604, Luxembourg

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle

Burgundian advisor to Margaret of Parma, later cardinal, and minister of the Spanish Habsburgs

*August 20th, 1517, Besançon †September 21st, 1586, Madrid

Carlo Carafa

Italian cardinal

*April 8th, 1517, Naples †March 14th, 1561, Rome

Amalia of Cleves

Sister to Anne of Cleves

*October 17th, 1517, Düsseldorf †March 1st, 1586, Düsseldorf

Gotthard Kettler

Duke of Courland and Semigallia (1517-1587)

*February 2nd, 1517, Eggeringhausen Castle †May 17th, 1587, Jelgava

Johannes Aurifaber

German theologian

*January 30th, 1517, Wrocław †October 19th, 1568, Wrocław

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

English duchess

*July 16th, 1517, Hertfordshire †November 30th, 1559, Surrey

Francis I, Duke of Lorraine

Duke of Lorraine and Bar (1517-1545)

*August 23rd, 1517, Nancy †June 12th, 1545, Remiremont

Johannes Streitberger

German theologian

*November 5th, 1517, Hof †April 20th, 1602, Kulmbach

Jacques Pelletier du Mans

Humanist, Poet, Mathematician

*July 25th, 1517, Le Mans †September 28th, 1583, France

Rembert Dodoens

Flemish physician and botanist (1517–1585)

*June 29th, 1517, Mechelen †March 10th, 1585, Leiden

Francisco de Holanda

Portuguese artist (1517-1584)

*September 6th, 1517, Lisbon †June 19th, 1584, Lisbon

Giacomo Gaggini

Italian artist (1517-1598)

*December 15th, 1517, Palermo †June 25th, 1598, Palermo

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 21st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on February 21st.

The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Bhutan

The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagum

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXI.II.MDXVII

21.2.1517

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1517 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1517

February 1517

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

February 21st, 1517

Born on February 21st, 1517

Weekday

Wednesday

Age

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 185,000 days old!

185,247 Days

26,463 Weeks

6,086 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 21st?

After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.

Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 21st

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Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 21st

Armed Forces Day (South Africa)

Birthday of King Harald V (Norway)

Felix of Hadrumetum

Pepin of Landen

Peter Damian

Randoald of Grandval

February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Father Lini Day (Vanuatu)

Language Movement Day (Bangladesh)

International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)

The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)

The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

21.2.1517

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