Top Personalities Born on February 29

February 29, a date that usually occurs every four years. A child who is born on this date is called a "leaping" or "leap year baby". It suggests that he/she celebrates birthday in a leap year.

February 29 occurs in most years that are divisible by 4 such as 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. A year containing a leap day is called Leap Year and February 29 is the 60th day of the Gregorian calendar.

A Leap Year contains one additional day in the month of February that makes the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. It suggests that the year lasts 366 days instead of the usual 365.

However, some leapings celebrate their birthdays on either February 28 or March 1 or on the dates in according with Hindu calendar.

Many famous people have been born on the leap day including Morarji Desai, India's former Prime Minister, Pope Paul III. The only notable person Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania, was both born and died on February 29.

Top Personalities born on February 29 are:


* Pope Paul III (1468-1549)
* Juan Bautista Comes, Spanish composer (1568-1643)
* John Byrom, English poet (1692-1763)
* Eva Marie Veigel, ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick (1724-1822)
* Ann Lee, American founder of Shakers (1736-1784)
* Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (1792-1868)
* Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (1812-1880)
* Emmeline B. Wells, American women's rights advocate (1828-1921)
* Dickey Pearce, American baseball player and manager (1836-1908)
* John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (1840-1914)
* Arthur Giry, French historian (1848-1899)
* Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (1852-1936)
* George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Russian nobleman (1852-1912)
* Herman Hollerith, American statistician (1860-1929)
* Ed Appleton, American baseball player (1892-1932)
* Augusta Savage, African-American sculptor (1892-1962)
* Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (1896-1995)
* Roy Parker, baseball player (1896-1954)
* William A. Wellman, American film director (1896-1975)
* Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (1904-1957)
* Pepper Martin, baseball player (1904-1965)
* Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra (1904-1986)
* Balthus, French-Polish painter (1908-2001)
* Dee Brown, American writer (1908-2002)
* Alf Gover, English cricketer (1908-2001)
* Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (1916-1994)
* Arthur Franz, American actor (1920-2006)
* James Mitchell, American actor (1920-2010)
* Michèle Morgan, French actress (1920)
* Howard Nemerov, American poet (1920-1991)
* Ivan Ivanovich Petrov, Russian operatic bass (1920–2003)
* Rolland W. Redlin, American politician (1920–2011)
* Fyodor Abramov, Russian novelist (1920-1983)
* Al Rosen, American baseball player (1924)
* David Beattie, New Zealand Governor-General (1924-2001)
* Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador (1924)
* Joss Ackland, English actor (1928)
* Vance Haynes, American archaeologist (1928)
* Terry Lewis, Australian police commissioner (1928)
* Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer
* Paul Giel, American baseball player (1932-2002)
* Gene Golub, American mathematician (1932-2007)
* Masten Gregory, American F1 Driver (1932-1985)
* Reri Grist, African-American coloratura soprano (1932)
* Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist (1932)
* Jack Lousma, American astronaut (1936)
* Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (1936)
* Alex Rocco, American actor (1936)
* Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940)
* William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer (1940)
* Ene Ergma, Estonian politician (1944)
* Dennis Farina, American actor (1944)
* Phyllis Frelich, American actress (1944)
* Steve Mingori, American baseball player (1944-2008)
* Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian illustrator (1944)
* Jirō Akagawa, Japanese novelist (1948)
* Gérard Darmon, French movie actor and singer
* Ken Foree, American actor (1948)
* Al Autry, American baseball player (1952)
* Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush, American television personality (1952)
* Tim Powers, American writer (1952)
* Raisa Smetanina, Russian cross-country skier (1952)
* Bart Stupak, American congressman (1952)
* Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian entertainer (1956)
* Jerry Fry, American baseball player (1956)
* Bob Speller, Canadian politician (1956)
* J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebrity journalist (1956)
* Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (1956-2002)
* Khaled, Algerian raï musician (1960)
* Bill Long, American baseball player (1960)
* Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (1960)
* Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker (1960)
* Lyndon Byers, Canadian hockey player and Boston radio personality (1964)
* Mervyn Warren, American film & TV composer and musician (1964)
* Suanne Braun, South African actress (1968)
* Chucky Brown, American basketball player (1968)
* Pete Fenson, American curler (1968)
* Naoko Iijima, Japanese actress (1968)
* Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist (1968)
* Bryce Paup, American football player (1968)
* Wendi Peters, British actress (1968)
* Eugene Volokh, American law professor (1968)
* Frank Woodley, Australian comedian (1968)
* Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Italian-born actor (1972)
* Dave Williams, American singer (1972-2002)
* Saul Williams, American rapper, poet, and actor (1972)
* Mike Pollitt, English footballer (1972)
* Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American Real World housemate and AIDS activist (1972-1994)
* Iván García, Cuban athlete (1972)
* Katalin Kovács, Hungarian sprint canoer (1976)
* Ja Rule, American rapper and actor (1976)
* Terrence Long, American baseball player (1976)
* Zoë Baker, New Zealand swimmer (1976)
* Simon Gagné, Canadian ice hockey player (1980)
* Taylor Twellman, American soccer player (1980)
* Clinton Toopi, New Zealand rugby league footballer (1980)
* Chris Conley, American musician (1980)
* Ruben Plaza, Spanish cyclist (1980)
* Michail Mouroutsos, Greek Olympic taekwondo gold medalist (1980)
* Darren Ambrose, English footballer (1984)
* Cullen Jones, American swimmer (1984)
* Nuria Martinez, Spanish basketball player WNBA (1984)
* Adam Sinclair, Indian field hockey player (1984)
* Dennis Walger, German rugby player (1984)
* Cam Ward, Canadian ice hockey player (1984)
* Mark Foster, American musician (1984)
* Scott Golbourne, English footballer (1988)
* Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer (1988)
* Bobby Sanguinetti, American ice hockey player (1988)
* Perry Kitchen, American soccer player (1992)
* Sean Abbott, Australian cricketer (1992)