February 28th, 1927

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Born on February 28th, 1927 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
Born on February 28th, 1927: When to retire?
What happened on February 28th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 28th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1927)

Born on February 28th, 1927

Weekday

Monday

February 28th, 1927 was a Monday.

Age

People born on February 28th, 1927 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 97 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1927 - March 20th, 1927

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 35,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 520 days, exactly on September 21st, 2025, people who were born on February 28th, 1927 will be 36,000 days old!

35,480 Days

5,068 Weeks

1,165 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Born on February 28th, 1927: When to retire?

Birth

67 80

Childhood & Education 20 Years

Work 47 Years

Retirement 13 Years

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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, 1927

Jarl Kulle

Swedish actor (1927-1997)

*February 28th, 1927, Ekeby parish †October 3rd, 1997, Roslags Kulla

Fritz Eller

German architect

*February 28th, 1927, Schwaz †May 31st, 2018

Gérard Devos

French conductor (1927-2018)

*February 28th, 1927, Lille †December 22nd, 2018, Saran

John Carson

British actor (1927-2016)

*February 28th, 1927, Colombo †November 5th, 2016, Cape Town

Walter Dürst

Swiss ice hockey player (1927-2016)

*February 28th, 1927, Davos †May 2nd, 2016

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

Hans-Joachim Martens

German film actor and stage actor

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

Charles Durning

American actor (1923-2012)

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

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

Leon Cooper

American physicist

*February 28th, 1930, New York City

Don Francks

Canadian actor and jazz musician (1932–2016)

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

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926–2011)

*February 28th, 1926, Moscow †November 22nd, 2011, Richland Center

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

Tom Aldredge

American television, film and stage actor (1928-2011)

*February 28th, 1928, Dayton †July 22nd, 2011, Tampa

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

Linus Pauling

American scientist

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

Tommy Tune

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

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

Frank Gehry

Canadian-American architect

*February 28th, 1929, Toronto

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

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

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

Kelly Bishop

American actress

*February 28th, 1944, Colorado Springs

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

Steven Chu

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

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

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Born in 1927

Shirley Fry

American tennis and badminton player

*June 30th, 1927, Akron †July 13th, 2021, Naples

John Boardman

British classical archaeologist (born 1927)

*August 20th, 1927, London Borough of Redbridge

Hansjürgen Müller-Beck

German prehistorian

*August 13th, 1927, Apolda †August 2nd, 2018, Bern

Roger Moore

English actor (1927–2017)

*October 14th, 1927, Stockwell †May 23rd, 2017, Crans-Montana

Bhumibol Adulyadej

King of Thailand

*December 5th, 1927, Mount Auburn Hospital †October 13th, 2016, Siriraj Hospital

Benedict XVI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 (1927–2022)

*April 16th, 1927, Birth house of Benedict XVI †December 31st, 2022, Mater Ecclesiae Monastery

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

*March 6th, 1927, Aracataca †April 17th, 2014, Mexico City

Harry Belafonte

American singer and actor (1927–2023)

*March 1st, 1927, Harlem †April 25th, 2023, Upper West Side

Johannes Georg Seidel

*May 16th, 1927, Dresden †August 26th, 2017

Günter Guillaume

Stasi officer

*February 1st, 1927, Berlin †April 10th, 1995, Petershagen-Eggersdorf

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

*January 18th, 1927, Kaiserslautern †March 20th, 1995, Kaiserslautern

Lothar Dräger

German comics writer

*January 19th, 1927, Grambow †July 9th, 2016, Potsdam

Claude Taittinger

French businessperson

*October 2nd, 1927, Paris †January 3rd, 2022, Paris

Erika Simon

German classical archaeologist (1927-2019)

*June 27th, 1927, Rheingönheim †February 15th, 2019, Würzburg

Horst Rudolf Abe

German medical historian (1927-2006)

*October 12th, 1927, Erfurt †February 27th, 2006, Erfurt

Günter Grass

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

*October 16th, 1927, Free City of Danzig †April 13th, 2015, Lübeck

Hans Wußing

German historian of mathematics

*October 15th, 1927, Waldheim †April 26th, 2011, Leipzig

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

German Catholic theologian and author; World's first woman to hold a chair in Catholic theology

*October 2nd, 1927, Essen †March 25th, 2021, Essen

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

*August 18th, 1927, Plains †November 19th, 2023, Plains

Kika de la Garza

American politician (1927-2017)

*September 22nd, 1927, Mercedes †March 13th, 2017, McAllen

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.MCMXXVII

28.2.1927

Legend

M = 1000

CM = 900

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Born on February 28th, 1927
Future birthdays

99

2026Saturday, February 28th

100

2027Sunday, February 28th

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1927 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1927

February 1927

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
5		1	2	3	4	5	6
6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
7	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
8	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
9	28

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Born on February 28th, 1927

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Zodiac

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Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 35,000 days old!

35,480 Days

5,068 Weeks

1,165 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

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Born on February 28th, 1927: When to retire?

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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, 1927

Swedish actor (1927-1997)

German architect

French conductor (1927-2018)

British actor (1927-2016)

Swiss ice hockey player (1927-2016)

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

Same year Born in 1927

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

28.2.1927

Legend

Born on February 28th, 1927 Future birthdays

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Leap year

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Age in days, weeks and months
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Birthdays
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