February 21st, 1947

Born on February 21st, 1947

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 28,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on February 21st, 1947?

February 21st, 1947

In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land

What else 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.

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

Born on February 21st, 1947

77

Mauro Macario

Italian poet, film director, screenwriter and writer

*February 21st, 1947, Santa Margherita Ligure

77

Olympia Snowe

American politician; U.S. Senator for Maine

*February 21st, 1947, Augusta

77

Joachim Ehrig

West German rower

*February 21st, 1947, Heidelberg

77

Johnny Echols

American musician

*February 21st, 1947, Memphis

77

Renata Sorrah

Brazilian actress

*February 21st, 1947, Rio de Janeiro

77

Lidia Bastianich

American celebrity chef

*February 21st, 1947, Pula

77

Marie Lundqvist-Björk

Swedish gymnast

*February 21st, 1947, Västerås

77

Petar Škundrić

Serbian politician

*February 21st, 1947, Gračac

77

Pirmin Meier

Swiss author and teacher

*February 21st, 1947, Würenlingen

77

Anna N. Żytkow

Polish astrophysicist

*February 21st, 1947, Poland

77

Greg Dayman

Field hockey player

*February 21st, 1947, Wellington

77

Jean-Claude Cheynet

French historian and teacher

*February 21st, 1947, Paris

77

Eddy Achterberg

Football player

*February 21st, 1947, Utrecht

77

Ryszard Waśko

Polish painter

*February 21st, 1947, Nysa

77

Yannis Patilis

Greek writer

*February 21st, 1947, Athens

77

Terry Ley

American baseball player

*February 21st, 1947, Oregon

77

Ion Enache

Olympic wrestler

*February 21st, 1947, Ploiești

77

Finn Halvorsen

Ski jumper

*February 21st, 1947, Våler Municipality

77

Charley Walters

American baseball player

*February 21st, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Hugo Coveliers

Belgian politician

*February 21st, 1947, Schelle

77

Rosalina Berazaín Iturralde

Cuban botanist and university teacher

*February 21st, 1947, Havana

77

Philipa Raschker

Master athlete, sprinter, hurdler, jumper, pole vaulter, heptathlete

*February 21st, 1947, Hamburg

77

Neil A. Anderson

American congressman in Idaho

*February 21st, 1947, Rexburg

77

Sohel Rana

Bangladeshi actor

*February 21st, 1947, Dhaka

77

Tamio Dejima

Japanese speed skater

*February 21st, 1947, Nagano

77

Jenny Lee-Wright

English actress and dancer

*February 21st, 1947, London

40

Ronnie Shakes

American comedian

*February 21st, 1947, Brooklyn †May 16th, 1987

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

69

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

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

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

78

Tyne Daly

American actress

*February 21st, 1946, Madison

35

Corbin Bleu

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

*February 21st, 1989, Brooklyn

33

Joe Alwyn

English actor

*February 21st, 1991, Royal Tunbridge Wells

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

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

30

Sawan Serasinghe

Sri Lanka-born Australian badminton player

*February 21st, 1994, Galle

23

Lalinrat Chaiwan

Badminton player

*February 21st, 2001, Lampang

71

Christine Ebersole

American actress

*February 21st, 1953, Chicago

95

Robert Mugabe

2nd president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017

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

69

Rolf Schlierer

German politician

*February 21st, 1955, Stuttgart

74

Sahle-Work Zewde

President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

*February 21st, 1950, Addis Ababa

67

Ottmar Schreiner

German politician (1946-2013)

*February 21st, 1946, Merzig †April 6th, 2013, Saarlouis

78

Anthony Daniels

English actor

*February 21st, 1946, Salisbury

63

Abhijit Banerjee

Indian American economist

*February 21st, 1961, Mumbai

51

Tey Seu Bock

Malaysian badminton coach

*February 21st, 1973, Alor Gajah

80

David Wood

English actor and playwright, born 1944

*February 21st, 1944, London Borough of Sutton

87

Harald V of Norway

King of Norway

*February 21st, 1937, Skaugum

59

Ute Hankers

German volleyball player

*February 21st, 1965, Bad Iburg

54

Jess Thorup

Danish association football player and manager

*February 21st, 1970, Copenhagen

Same year
Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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