February 28th, 1570

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Born on February 28th, 1570 – 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 1570)

Born on February 28th, 1570

Weekday

Saturday

February 28th, 1570 was a Saturday.

Age

454

People born on February 28th, 1570 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 454 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1570 - March 20th, 1570

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 165,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 121 days, exactly on August 26th, 2024, people who were born on February 28th, 1570 will be 166,000 days old!

165,879 Days

23,697 Weeks

5,449 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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

Eleanor de' Medici

Family member of the House of Medici (1567-1611)

*February 28th, 1567, Florence †September 9th, 1611, Cavriana

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

Hans-Joachim Martens

German film actor and stage actor

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

Quinn Shephard

American actress

*February 28th, 1995, Metuchen

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

Johanna Isabella Eleonore Wallenrodt

German writer (1740–1819)

*February 28th, 1740, Uhlstädt †October 11th, 1819, Grodziszcze, Ząbkowice Śląskie County

Same year
Born in 1570

Guy Fawkes

English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605

*March 31st, 1570, York †January 31st, 1606, Westminster

Erasmus Schmidt

German philologist and mathematician

*April 17th, 1570, Delitzsch †September 22nd, 1637, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Simon Ulrich Pistoris

*December 3rd, 1570, Leipzig †June 24th, 1615, Berlin

John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar

Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Jena

*May 22nd, 1570, Weimar †October 31st, 1605, Weimar

Thomas Lupo

English composer and viol player

*November 30th, 1570, London †December 1st, 1627, London

Franz von Dietrichstein

Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (1570-1636)

*August 22nd, 1570, Madrid †September 19th, 1636, Brno

Jakob Martini

German theologian and philosopher

*October 17th, 1570, Langenstein †May 30th, 1649, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Péter Pázmány

Hungarian Catholic cardinal, theologian and statesman

*October 4th, 1570, Oradea †March 19th, 1637, Bratislava

Giovanni Tiepolo

Patriarch of Venice

*April 12th, 1570, Venice †May 7th, 1631, Venice

Wolfgang Hirschbach

German legal scholar

*January 19th, 1570, Gotha †September 13th, 1620, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Christopher, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg

Co-ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (1570-1606)

*August 21st, 1570, Harburg †July 7th, 1606, Harburg

Adam Tanner

Austrian mathematician (1571–1632)

*November 30th, 1570, Innsbruck †May 15th, 1632, Unken

Günther XLII van Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

German aristocrat

*September 7th, 1570, Sondershausen †January 7th, 1643, Arnstadt

Joan Pau Pujol

Spanish/Catalan composer and organist (1570-1626)

*June 18th, 1570, Mataró †May 17th, 1626, Barcelona

Volkert Overlander

Lord of Purmerland and Ilpendam, Mayor of Amsterdam

*October 7th, 1570, Amsterdam †October 18th, 1630, The Hague

Esther Imbert

French noblewoman

*December 11th, 1570, Fontenay-le-Comte †November 30th, 1592

Ludolf Münchhausen

German librarian (1570-1640)

*April 28th, 1570, Apelern †September 21st, 1640

Cornelius Gobelius

*November 7th, 1570, Cochem †June 7th, 1611, Erfurt

Hans Lippershay

German-Dutch spectacle-maker

*November 30th, 1570, Germany †August 31st, 1619, Middelburg

Francisco Medrano

Spanish writer

*January 1st, 1570, Seville †January 1st, 1607, Seville

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.MDLXX

28.2.1570

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1570 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1570

February 1570

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