February 22nd, 1721

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Born on February 22nd, 1721 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on February 22nd?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 22nd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1721)

Born on February 22nd, 1721

Weekday

Saturday

February 22nd, 1721 was a Saturday.

Age

303

People born on February 22nd, 1721 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 303 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1721 - March 20th, 1721

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 110,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 265 days, exactly on January 19th, 2025, people who were born on February 22nd, 1721 will be 111,000 days old!

110,735 Days

15,819 Weeks

3,638 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on February 22nd?

February 22nd, 2019

A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.

February 22nd, 2012

A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer stop at Once railway station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more than 700 injuries.

February 22nd, 2011

Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.

February 22nd, 2006

Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.

February 22nd, 1997

Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell.

February 22nd, 1983

The play Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, becoming the standard of "awfulness" against which all Broadway failures are judged.

February 22nd, 1980

At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.

February 22nd, 1959

Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway (pictured) in Daytona Beach, Florida.

February 22nd, 1944

World War II: U.S. forces carried out a bombing raid on the Nazi-occupied Dutch city of Nijmegen, killing hundreds of civilians by accident.

February 22nd, 1921

The Bogd Khan was reinstalled as emperor after White Russian forces under Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (pictured) drove the Chinese out of Mongolia.

February 22nd, 1909

The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut (pictured), completed a circumnavigation of the globe.

February 22nd, 1876

The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, opened.

February 22nd, 1371

Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.

February 22nd, 1316

The Catalan forces of Ferdinand of Majorca defeated troops loyal to Princess Matilda of Hainaut at the Battle of Picotin on the Peloponnese peninsula in modern-day Greece.

February 22nd, 1974

Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but he was stopped by police.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 22nd

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 22nd?

George Washington

President of the United States from 1789 to 1797

*February 22nd, 1732, Westmoreland County †December 14th, 1799, Mount Vernon

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

Frédéric Chopin

Polish composer and pianist (1810-1849)

*February 22nd, 1810, Żelazowa Wola †October 17th, 1849, Paris

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

Lexa

Brazilian singer-songwriter and dancer

*February 22nd, 1995, Rio de Janeiro

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher (1788–1860)

*February 22nd, 1788, Gdańsk †September 21st, 1860, Frankfurt

Claudia Hiersche

German actress

*February 22nd, 1977, Frankfurt (Oder)

Kenneth Williams

British actor and comedian (1926–1988)

*February 22nd, 1926, Islington †April 15th, 1988, London Borough of Camden

Christoph von Steiger

Swiss politician (1694–1765)

*February 22nd, 1694, Bern †February 12th, 1765, Bern

Axel Strøbye

Danish film actor

*February 22nd, 1928, Frederiksberg †July 12th, 2005, Copenhagen

Peter Anich

Cartographer

*February 22nd, 1723, Oberperfuss †September 1st, 1766, Innsbruck

Kyle MacLachlan

American actor

*February 22nd, 1959, Yakima

Horst Köhler

German politician (CDU); president of Germany, 2004–2010

*February 22nd, 1943, Skierbieszów

Ridya Aulia Fatasya

Indonesian badminton player

*February 22nd, 2003, Semarang City

Jules Renard

French author (1864-1910)

*February 22nd, 1864, Châlons-du-Maine †May 22nd, 1910, Bucharest

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

*February 22nd, 1857, Hamburg †January 1st, 1894, Bonn

Paul Dooley

American actor, writer, and comedian

*February 22nd, 1928, Parkersburg

Joaquín Cortés

Spanish dancer

*February 22nd, 1969, Córdoba

Olave Baden-Powell

World Chief Guide

*February 22nd, 1889, Chesterfield †June 25th, 1977, Bramley

Same year
Born in 1721

Tobias Smollett

18th-century poet and author from Scotland

*March 19th, 1721, Cardross †September 17th, 1771, Livorno

Madame de Pompadour

Chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)

*December 29th, 1721, Paris †April 15th, 1764, Versailles

Jean-Philippe Baratier

German scholar (1721-1740)

*January 19th, 1721, Schwabach †October 5th, 1740, Halle (Saale)

Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

French statesman (1721-1794)

*December 6th, 1721, Paris †April 22nd, 1794, Paris

Roger Sherman

Early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721-1793)

*April 19th, 1721, Newton †July 23rd, 1793, New Haven

John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1721-1767)

*January 8th, 1721, Rudolstadt †July 10th, 1767, Rudolstadt

Mark Akenside

English poet and physician

*November 9th, 1721, Newcastle upon Tyne †June 23rd, 1770, London

Domenico Corvi

Italian painter (1721-1803)

*September 16th, 1721, Viterbo †July 22nd, 1803, Rome

Christian Gotthelf von Gutschmid

German politician (1721-1798)

*December 12th, 1721, Kahren †December 30th, 1798, Dresden

Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz

German general

*February 3rd, 1721, Kalkar †August 27th, 1773, Oława

Franz Anton Knittel

German theologian

*April 3rd, 1721, Salzdahlum †December 10th, 1792, Wolfenbüttel

Johann Samuel Diterich

German Archdeacon and parson (1721-1797)

*January 1st, 1721, Berlin †January 1st, 1797, Berlin

Eliphalet Dyer

American judge and politician

*September 14th, 1721, Windham †May 13th, 1807, Windham

James Elphinston

British linguist

*December 6th, 1721, Edinburgh †October 8th, 1809

Friedrich Samuel Zickler

*November 14th, 1721, Rödigsdorf †April 23rd, 1779, Jena

Robert Strange

Scottish engraver

*July 14th, 1721, Kirkwall †July 5th, 1792, London

Bernardo Bellotto

Italian artist

*January 30th, 1721, Venice †November 17th, 1780, Warsaw

Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford

British politician (1721-1803)

*August 4th, 1721, Swynnerton †October 26th, 1803, Trentham Gardens

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

German professor of botany and chemistry (1721-1768)

*August 19th, 1721, Tübingen †May 9th, 1768, Tübingen

Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken

German noble (1721-1774)

*March 9th, 1721, Ribeauvillé †March 30th, 1774, Darmstadt

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 22nd

Fixed holidays (Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observance, Christian feast day) which are celebrated on February 22nd.

Founder's Day or "B.-P. day" (World Organization of the Scout Movement)

Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observanceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouts'_Day

World Thinking Day (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell, and its related observanceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Thinking_Day

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom in 1979.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Saint_Lucia

Founding Day (Saudi Arabia)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia

Washington's Birthday, federal holiday in the United States. A holiday on February 22 as well as the third Monday in February.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents'_Day

National Cat Day (Japan)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cat_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXII.II.MDCCXXI

22.2.1721

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1721 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1721

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5						1	2
6	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
7	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
8	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
9	24	25	26	27	28

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February 22nd, 1721

Born on February 22nd, 1721

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

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Pisces (The Fish)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 110,000 days old!

110,735 Days

15,819 Weeks

3,638 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 22nd?

A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.

A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer stop at Once railway station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more than 700 injuries.

Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.

Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.

Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell.

The play Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, becoming the standard of "awfulness" against which all Broadway failures are judged.

At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.

Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway (pictured) in Daytona Beach, Florida.

World War II: U.S. forces carried out a bombing raid on the Nazi-occupied Dutch city of Nijmegen, killing hundreds of civilians by accident.

The Bogd Khan was reinstalled as emperor after White Russian forces under Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (pictured) drove the Chinese out of Mongolia.

The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut (pictured), completed a circumnavigation of the globe.

The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, named after philanthropist Johns Hopkins, opened.

Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.

The Catalan forces of Ferdinand of Majorca defeated troops loyal to Princess Matilda of Hainaut at the Battle of Picotin on the Peloponnese peninsula in modern-day Greece.

Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but he was stopped by police.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 22nd

Same Day Who's birthday is on February 22nd?

Same year Born in 1721

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 22nd

Founder's Day or "B.-P. day" (World Organization of the Scout Movement)

World Thinking Day (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

Baradates

Eric Liddell (Episcopal Church (USA))

Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (Roman Catholic Church)

February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Crime Victims Day (Europe)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom in 1979.

Founding Day (Saudi Arabia)

Washington's Birthday, federal holiday in the United States. A holiday on February 22 as well as the third Monday in February.

National Cat Day (Japan)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

22.2.1721

Legend

Leap year

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