February 28th, 1655

Born on February 28th, 1655

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 135,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 369 days, exactly on July 8th, 2027, people who were born on February 28th, 1655 will be 136,000 days old!

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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

Born on February 28th, 1655

45

Johann Beer

Austrian composer and writer

*February 28th, 1655, Sankt Georgen im Attergau †August 6th, 1700, Weißenfels

Same year
Born in 1655

50

Jacob Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician (1655-1705)

*January 5th, 1655, Basel †August 16th, 1705, Basel

75

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Italian maker of musical instruments

*May 4th, 1655, Padua †January 27th, 1731, Florence

41

Charles XI of Sweden

King of Sweden

*November 24th, 1655, Stockholm †April 5th, 1697, Stockholm

55

Vincenzo Grimani

Catholic cardinal

*May 26th, 1655, Mantua †September 26th, 1710, Naples

72

Frederick Christian, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

German noble (1655-1728)

*August 16th, 1655, Bückeburg †June 13th, 1728, Bückeburg

73

Christian Thomasius

German philosopher (1655-1728)

*January 1st, 1655, Leipzig †September 23rd, 1728, Halle (Saale)

60

Paule-Marguerite Françoise de Gondi

French noblewoman (1655-1716)

*March 12th, 1655, Machecoul †January 21st, 1716, Paris

88

Fra Galgario

Lombard painter (1655-1743)

*March 4th, 1655, Bergamo †December 1st, 1743, Bergamo

71

Francis Nicholson

British general and colonial official

*November 12th, 1655, Downholme †March 16th, 1727, London

60

Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

German duke (1655-1715)

*July 12th, 1655, Gotha †October 17th, 1715, Hildburghausen

72

Cornelius Cruys

Norwegian admiral

*June 14th, 1655, Stavanger †June 14th, 1727, Saint Petersburg

69

Benedict Pictet

Genevan theologian

*May 19th, 1655, Geneva †June 9th, 1724, Geneva

82

Carel de Moor

Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1655-1738)

*February 25th, 1655, Leiden †February 16th, 1738, Warmond

82

Rinaldo d'Este

Duke of Modena

*April 26th, 1655, Modena †October 26th, 1737, Modena

81

Ferdinand Kettler

Duke of Courland (1655-1737)

*November 2nd, 1655, Jelgava †May 4th, 1737, Gdańsk

71

Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld

Swedish diplomat, linguist and diarist

*July 17th, 1655, Åmål †June 2nd, 1727, Romfartuna

82

Caspar Bartholin the Younger

Danish anatomist

*September 10th, 1655, Copenhagen †June 11th, 1738, Copenhagen

86

Bernard de Montfaucon

French monk and scholar

*January 13th, 1655, Languedoc †December 21st, 1741, Paris

70

Antonio Palomino

Painter from Spain (1655-1726)

*December 1st, 1655, Bujalance †August 12th, 1726, Madrid

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1655 is a normal year and no leap year.

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