February 21st, 1882

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Born on February 21st, 1882 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on February 21st?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 21st
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1882)

Born on February 21st, 1882

Weekday

Tuesday

February 21st, 1882 was a Tuesday.

Age

142

People born on February 21st, 1882 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 142 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1882 - March 20th, 1882

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 51,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 77 days, exactly on July 6th, 2024, people who were born on February 21st, 1882 will be 52,000 days old!

51,923 Days

7,417 Weeks

1,705 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on February 21st?

February 21st, 1973

After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

February 21st, 1952

A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

February 21st, 1929

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

February 21st, 1919

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

February 21st, 1878

The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

February 21st, 1866

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

February 21st, 1862

American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

February 21st, 1828

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

February 21st, 1746

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

February 21st, 1437

King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

February 21st, 2022

In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

February 21st, 2013

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

February 21st, 1995

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

February 21st, 1994

Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.

February 21st, 1975

Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 21st

Born on February 21st, 1882

Jean Dupas

French painter, artist, designer, poster artist, and decorator (1882-1964)

*February 21st, 1882, Bordeaux †September 6th, 1964, Paris

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 21st?

Corbin Bleu

American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter

*February 21st, 1989, Brooklyn

Joe Alwyn

English actor

*February 21st, 1991, Royal Tunbridge Wells

Sawan Serasinghe

Sri Lanka-born Australian badminton player

*February 21st, 1994, Galle

Ernst Meyer

German historian of classical antiquity (1898-1975)

*February 21st, 1898, Pinneberg †November 18th, 1975, Zürich

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

Lalinrat Chaiwan

Badminton player

*February 21st, 2001, Lampang

Georg Lippold

German archaeologist (1885-1954)

*February 21st, 1885, Mainz †July 23rd, 1954, Erlangen

Friedrich Karl Kaul

German screenwriter

*February 21st, 1906, Poznań †April 16th, 1981, East Berlin

Robert Mugabe

2nd president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017

*February 21st, 1924, Kutama †September 6th, 2019, Gleneagles Hospital

Clemence Dane

English novelist (1888-1965)

*February 21st, 1888, London Borough of Lewisham †March 28th, 1965, London

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

*February 21st, 1946, Hammersmith †January 14th, 2016, London

Sally Kessler

*February 21st, 1912, Cologne †March 27th, 1985, Cologne

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

Marian Anderson

African-American contralto (1897–1993)

*February 21st, 1897, Philadelphia †April 8th, 1993, Portland

Edwin L. Marin

American film director

*February 21st, 1899, Jersey City †May 2nd, 1951, Los Angeles

Kazushi Yamada

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1987, Ehime Prefecture

Giveon

American R&B singer

*February 21st, 1995, Long Beach

Jelle Maas

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1991, Oosterhout

Tey Seu Bock

Malaysian badminton coach

*February 21st, 1973, Alor Gajah

Hana Ramadhini

Indonesian badminton player

*February 21st, 1995, Tasikmalaya City

Same year
Born in 1882

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President of the United States from 1933 to 1945

*January 30th, 1882, Hyde Park †April 12th, 1945, Warm Springs

James Joyce

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

*February 2nd, 1882, Rathgar †January 13th, 1941, Zürich

Sylvia Pankhurst

English feminist and socialist (1882–1960)

*May 5th, 1882, Manchester †September 27th, 1960, Addis Ababa

Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer (1882–1971)

*June 18th, 1882, Lomonosov †April 6th, 1971, New York City

Gisela Richter

British-American art historian and archaeologist (1882–1972)

*August 14th, 1882, London †December 24th, 1972, Rome

Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

*January 25th, 1882, Hyde Park Gate †March 28th, 1941, Lewes

Max Born

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

*December 11th, 1882, Wrocław †January 5th, 1970, Göttingen

Jean Giraudoux

French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944)

*October 29th, 1882, Bellac †January 31st, 1944, Paris

Sigrid Undset

Norwegian writer (1882-1949)

*May 20th, 1882, Kalundborg †June 10th, 1949, Lillehammer Municipality

Emmerich Kálmán

Hungarian-born composer of operettas

*October 24th, 1882, Siófok †October 30th, 1953, Paris

Yanka Kupala

Belarusian writer (1882–1942)

*June 25th, 1882, Viazynka †June 28th, 1942, Moscow

Sybil Thorndike

British actress (1882-1976)

*October 24th, 1882, Gainsborough †June 9th, 1976, Chelsea

Leonhard Frank

German writer

*September 4th, 1882, Würzburg †August 18th, 1961, Munich

James F. Byrnes

American politician

*May 2nd, 1882, Charleston †April 9th, 1972, Columbia

Noah Beery, Sr.

American actor (1882–1946)

*January 17th, 1882, Kansas City †April 1st, 1946, Los Angeles

Franz Kruckenberg

German engineer (1882-1965)

*August 21st, 1882, Uetersen †June 19th, 1965, Heidelberg

James Franck

German physicist

*August 26th, 1882, Hamburg †May 21st, 1964, Göttingen

Elmer Booth

American actor (1882-1915)

*December 9th, 1882, Los Angeles †June 16th, 1915, Los Angeles

Alfred Wegener

German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)

*November 1st, 1882, Berlin †October 31st, 1930, Greenland

Bela Lugosi

Hungarian-American actor (1882–1956)

*October 20th, 1882, Lugoj †August 16th, 1956, Los Angeles

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 21st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on February 21st.

The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Bhutan

The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagum

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXI.II.MDCCCLXXXII

21.2.1882

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1882 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1882

February 1882

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

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February 21st, 1882

Born on February 21st, 1882

Weekday

Tuesday

Age

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Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 51,000 days old!

51,923 Days

7,417 Weeks

1,705 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 21st?

After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.

Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 21st

Born on February 21st, 1882

French painter, artist, designer, poster artist, and decorator (1882-1964)

Same Day Who's birthday is on February 21st?

Same year Born in 1882

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 21st

Armed Forces Day (South Africa)

Birthday of King Harald V (Norway)

Felix of Hadrumetum

Pepin of Landen

Peter Damian

Randoald of Grandval

February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Father Lini Day (Vanuatu)

Language Movement Day (Bangladesh)

International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)

The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)

The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

21.2.1882

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