February 22nd, 1889

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Born on February 22nd, 1889 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on February 22nd, 1889?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 22nd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1889)

Born on February 22nd, 1889

Weekday

Friday

February 22nd, 1889 was a Friday.

Age

135

People born on February 22nd, 1889 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 135 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1889 - March 20th, 1889

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 49,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 628 days, exactly on January 15th, 2026, people who were born on February 22nd, 1889 will be 50,000 days old!

49,372 Days

7,053 Weeks

1,622 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on February 22nd, 1889?

February 22nd, 1889

President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States

What else 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.

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

Born on February 22nd, 1889

Olave Baden-Powell

World Chief Guide

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

R. G. Collingwood

British historian and philosopher (1889–1943)

*February 22nd, 1889, Cartmel Fell †January 9th, 1943, Coniston

Joseph Egger

Austrian actor (1889-1966)

*February 22nd, 1889, Styria †August 29th, 1966, Gablitz

Wilhelm Rudolph

German painter (1889-1982)

*February 22nd, 1889, Hilbersdorf †September 30th, 1982, Dresden

Allan Keith

Canadian gymnast

*February 22nd, 1889, Toronto †November 21st, 1953

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

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

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

George Washington

President of the United States from 1789 to 1797

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

Lexa

Brazilian singer-songwriter and dancer

*February 22nd, 1995, Rio de Janeiro

Kenneth Williams

British actor and comedian (1926–1988)

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

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

Frédéric Chopin

Polish composer and pianist (1810-1849)

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

Axel Strøbye

Danish film actor

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

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Ernst Jakob Henne

German car and motorcycle racer

*February 22nd, 1904, Weiler-Simmerberg †May 23rd, 2005, Gran Canaria

Claudia Hiersche

German actress

*February 22nd, 1977, Frankfurt (Oder)

John Mills

English actor (1908-2005)

*February 22nd, 1908, Felixstowe †April 23rd, 2005, Denham

Jules Renard

French author (1864-1910)

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

Horst Köhler

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

*February 22nd, 1943, Skierbieszów

Paul Dooley

American actor, writer, and comedian

*February 22nd, 1928, Parkersburg

Luis Buñuel

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)

*February 22nd, 1900, Calanda †July 29th, 1983, Mexico City

Kyle MacLachlan

American actor

*February 22nd, 1959, Yakima

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

American poet

*February 22nd, 1892, Rockland †October 19th, 1950, Austerlitz

Ridya Aulia Fatasya

Indonesian badminton player

*February 22nd, 2003, Semarang City

Joaquín Cortés

Spanish dancer

*February 22nd, 1969, Córdoba

Same year
Born in 1889

Charlie Chaplin

British comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)

*April 16th, 1889, Walworth †December 25th, 1977, Corsier-sur-Vevey

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

*April 20th, 1889, Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus †April 30th, 1945, Führerbunker

Jawaharlal Nehru

Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964

*November 14th, 1889, Prayagraj †May 27th, 1964, New Delhi

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

*April 26th, 1889, Neuwaldegg †April 29th, 1951, Cambridge

Gabriela Mistral

Chilean poet, diplomat and educator

*April 7th, 1889, Vicuña †January 10th, 1957, Hempstead

Lilly von Mallinckrodt-Schnitzler

*June 25th, 1889, Cologne †June 26th, 1981

Edwin Hubble

American astronomer

*November 20th, 1889, Marshfield †September 28th, 1953, San Marino

Gabriel Marcel

French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist

*December 7th, 1889, 8th arrondissement of Paris †October 8th, 1973, 7th arrondissement of Paris

Adrian Boult

British conductor

*April 8th, 1889, Chester †February 22nd, 1983, London

António de Oliveira Salazar

Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)

*April 28th, 1889, Vimieiro (Santa Comba Dão) †July 27th, 1970, Lisbon

Harry Clarke

Irish artist (1889–1931)

*March 17th, 1889, Dublin †January 6th, 1931, Chur

Eduardo Ciannelli

Italian actor (1889-1969)

*August 30th, 1889, Ischia †October 8th, 1969, Rome

Ted Wilde

American film director, screenwriter (1889-1929)

*December 16th, 1889, New York City †December 17th, 1929, Hollywood

Martin Heidegger

German philosopher (1889–1976)

*September 26th, 1889, Messkirch †May 26th, 1976, Freiburg im Breisgau

Darcy Hadfield

New Zealand rower (1889–1964)

*December 1st, 1889, Meadowbank Homestead †September 15th, 1964, Auckland

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Danish film director (1889–1968)

*February 3rd, 1889, Copenhagen †March 20th, 1968, Copenhagen

Ruby Miller

British actress (1889–1976)

*January 17th, 1889, London †January 17th, 1976, Chichester

Warner Baxter

American actor (1889–1951)

*March 29th, 1889, Columbus †May 7th, 1951, Beverly Hills

Anna Akhmatova

Russian poet (1889–1966)

*June 11th, 1889, Odesa †March 5th, 1966, Domodedovo

Carl von Ossietzky

German journalist, author, pacifist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize

*October 3rd, 1889, Hamburg †May 4th, 1938, Berlin

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.MDCCCLXXXIX

22.2.1889

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1889 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1889

February 1889

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

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Born on February 22nd, 1889

Weekday

Friday

Age

Zodiac

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Pisces (The Fish)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 49,000 days old!

49,372 Days

7,053 Weeks

1,622 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 22nd, 1889?

President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

What else 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.

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

Born on February 22nd, 1889

World Chief Guide

British historian and philosopher (1889–1943)

Austrian actor (1889-1966)

German painter (1889-1982)

Canadian gymnast

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

Same year Born in 1889

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

22.2.1889

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Leap year

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 49,000 days old!

Birthdays
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