February 28th, 1857

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Born on February 28th, 1857 – 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 1857)

Born on February 28th, 1857

Weekday

Saturday

February 28th, 1857 was a Saturday.

Age

167

People born on February 28th, 1857 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 167 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1857 - March 20th, 1857

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 61,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 944 days, exactly on November 29th, 2026, people who were born on February 28th, 1857 will be 62,000 days old!

61,056 Days

8,722 Weeks

2,006 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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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

Born on February 28th, 1857

Manuel Maria Coelho

Prime Minister of Portugal (1857-1943)

*February 28th, 1857, Chaves †January 10th, 1943, Lisbon

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Who's birthday is on February 28th?

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

Linus Pauling

American scientist

*February 28th, 1901, Portland †August 18th, 1994, Big Sur

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

Pierre Fatou

French mathematician and astronomer

*February 28th, 1878, Lorient †August 9th, 1929, Pornichet

Christie MacDonald

Canadian opera singer and stage actor

*February 28th, 1875, Pictou †July 25th, 1962, Fairfield

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

Charles Durning

American actor (1923-2012)

*February 28th, 1923, Highland Falls †December 24th, 2012, New York City

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

*February 28th, 1955, Brooklyn †April 12th, 2022, Manhattan

Hans-Joachim Martens

German film actor and stage actor

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

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

Don Francks

Canadian actor and jazz musician (1932–2016)

*February 28th, 1932, Burnaby †April 3rd, 2016, Toronto

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

Tommy Tune

American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

Steven Chu

American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

Kelly Bishop

American actress

*February 28th, 1944, Colorado Springs

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

Same year
Born in 1857

Ernst Fabricius

German historian, archaeologist and scholar (1857–1942)

*September 6th, 1857, Darmstadt †March 22nd, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau

William Howard Taft

President of the United States from 1909 to 1913

*September 15th, 1857, Cincinnati †March 8th, 1930, Washington metropolitan area

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist (1857-1913)

*November 26th, 1857, Geneva †February 22nd, 1913, Vufflens-le-Château

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

*December 27th, 1857, Rammenau †March 29th, 1934, Dresden

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

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

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

*December 3rd, 1857, Terekhove †August 3rd, 1924, Bishopsbourne

Pius XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

*May 31st, 1857, Desio †February 10th, 1939, Vatican City

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

*July 24th, 1857, Fredericia †August 21st, 1943, Copenhagen

Ronald Ross

British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857 – 1932)

*May 13th, 1857, Almora †September 16th, 1932, London

Otto Sidow

German politician (SPD)

*May 1st, 1857, Friesack †September 6th, 1927, Brandenburg an der Havel

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

*February 22nd, 1857, Paddington †January 8th, 1941, Nyeri

Eugène Regnault

French diplomat (1857-1941)

*December 28th, 1857, Boulogne-sur-Mer †September 25th, 1941, Gorre

Mario Méndez Bejarano

Spanish author

*December 5th, 1857, Seville †January 16th, 1931, Madrid

Julien Tiersot

French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936)

*July 5th, 1857, Bourg-en-Bresse †August 10th, 1936, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Margaret Deland

American writer and poet (1857–1945)

*February 23rd, 1857, Allegheny †January 13th, 1945, Boston

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer

*April 23rd, 1857, Naples †August 9th, 1919, Montecatini Terme

Edward Elgar

English composer (1857-1934)

*June 2nd, 1857, Lower Broadheath †February 23rd, 1934, Worcester

Alfred Binet

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

*July 8th, 1857, Nice †October 18th, 1911, Paris

Charles Scott Sherrington

English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

*November 27th, 1857, Islington †March 4th, 1952, Eastbourne

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist

*March 7th, 1857, Wels †September 27th, 1940, Vienna

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.MDCCCLVII

28.2.1857

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1857 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1857

February 1857

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

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February 28th, 1857

Born on February 28th, 1857

Weekday

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Age

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Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 61,000 days old!

61,056 Days

8,722 Weeks

2,006 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 28th?

Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in British transportation history.

Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.

During a period of religious violence in Gujarat, India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.

A high-speed train crash occurred near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, killing 10 and injuring 82.

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.

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched a mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Newry, Northern Ireland, killing nine people.

A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal Moorgate station, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.

The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.

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.

Chicago alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was murdered in his office by unknown assailants two days after having been reelected.

Nationalist soldiers fired on protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), triggering widespread uprisings and violent suppression in the White Terror.

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.

In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.

The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica (first team pictured), was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.

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

Born on February 28th, 1857

Prime Minister of Portugal (1857-1943)

Same Day Who's birthday is on February 28th?

Same year Born in 1857

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 28th

February 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Kalevala Day, also known as the Finnish Culture Day (Finland)

National Science Day (India)

Peace Memorial Day (Taiwan)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

28.2.1857

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