February 28th, 2009

Born on February 28th, 2009

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 5,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 462 days, exactly on August 3rd, 2025, people who were born on February 28th, 2009 will be 6,000 days old!

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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

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

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

29

Quinn Shephard

American actress

*February 28th, 1995, Metuchen

43

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

45

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

36

Markéta Irglová

Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress

*February 28th, 1988, Valašské Meziříčí

55

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

25

Luka Dončić

Slovenian basketball player

*February 28th, 1999, Ljubljana

67

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

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

67

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

76

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

31

Emmelie de Forest

Danish singer

*February 28th, 1993, Randers

31

Lindon Victor

Grenadian male decathlete

*February 28th, 1993, St. George's

93

Linus Pauling

American scientist

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

50

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

77

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

71

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

76

Steven Chu

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

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

38

Kingsley Ben-Adir

British actor

*February 28th, 1986, Gospel Oak

Same year
Born in 2009

15

Julia Butters

American actress

*April 15th, 2009, Los Angeles

14

Kim Kang-hoon

South Korean actor

*June 7th, 2009, Cheongju

14

Samaya Clark Gabriel

American basketball player

*October 1st, 2009, Brooklyn

14

Heo Yool

South Korean actress

*August 26th, 2009, South Korea

14

Leanne Bautista

Filipino child actress

*October 14th, 2009, Philippines

14

Kler Çaku

Albanian chess player

*November 30th, 2009, Shkodër

14

Fairooj Labiba

Bangladeshi singer

*June 13th, 2009, Khulna

14

Alihan Türkdemir

Turkish actor

*June 29th, 2009, Istanbul

14

Count Henrik of Monpezat

Danish former prince; son of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark

*May 4th, 2009, Rigshospitalet

15

Suleman octuplets

Six male and two female children conceived via in vitro fertilization

*January 26th, 2009, Bellflower

15

Moon Woo-jin

South Korean television and film actor

*February 19th, 2009, Incheon

15

Hend Zaza

Syrian table tennis player

*January 1st, 2009, Hama

15

Isabella Damla Güvenilir

American-Turkish actress

*January 18th, 2009, New York City

15

Valentina Tronel

French singer

*April 6th, 2009, Rennes

14

Lee Go-eun

South Korean actress

*November 6th, 2009, Incheon

12

Tomiii 11

Chilean YouTuber

*June 13th, 2009, Quinta de Tilcoco †August 30th, 2021, Quinta de Tilcoco

14

Temilayo Abodunrin

Nigerian saxophonist and song writer

*November 19th, 2009, Lagos

15

Lina Renna

Canadian actress

*April 25th, 2009, Canada

15

Seraphina Affleck

American actress and producer

*January 6th, 2009, Los Angeles

15

Ava Grace Cooper

Canadian actress

*March 2nd, 2009, Canada

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2009 is a normal year and no leap year.

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