February 28th, 1575

Born on February 28th, 1575

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 164,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 127 days, exactly on November 30th, 2026, people who were born on February 28th, 1575 will be 165,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on February 28th?

February 28th, 1966

American test pilots Charles Bassett and Elliot See die in a plane crash in in St. Louis, Missouri.

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, 1939

In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word dord was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor.

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.

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

Same year
Born in 1575

66

Guido Reni

Bolognese painter (1575–1642)

*November 4th, 1575, Bologna †August 18th, 1642, Bologna

51

Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby

British businesswoman

*July 2nd, 1575, Theobalds House †March 10th, 1627, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

74

Robert Heath

English judge and politician; (1575-1649)

*May 20th, 1575, Edenbridge †August 20th, 1649, Calais

36

Anne Catherine of Brandenburg

Queen consort of Norway and Denmark

*June 26th, 1575, Halle (Saale) †April 8th, 1612, Copenhagen

79

Francesco Molin

Doge of Venice (1575-1655)

*April 21st, 1575, Venice †February 27th, 1655, Venice

51

Friedrich Balduin

German theologian (1575-1627)

*November 17th, 1575, Dresden †May 1st, 1627, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

41

John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1575-1616)

*February 27th, 1575, Gottorf Castle †March 31st, 1616, Schleswig

80

Pierre de Conty d'Argencour

*October 24th, 1575, Alès †October 31st, 1655, Narbonne

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1575 is a normal year and no leap year.

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