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Once Every Four: February 29 "Leaper" Birthdays
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Tags: February 29, history, news, current events, Leap Year, Serial, Killer, Feb, 28, March, 1
Happy Birthday to these Pisces' who were born on February 29 (Leap Day). The big bummer is that this date only occurs every four years, in years evenly divisible by 4, such as 1988, 1996, or 2008, with the exceptions in century years not divisible by 400, such as 1900. They usually celebrate on Feb. 28 or sometimes March 1 (but who wants to wait).
| | 1468 - Pope Paul III (d. 1549) |
| | 1736 - Ann Lee, Founded the Shaker movement and brought it to America in 1776.(d. 1784) |
| | 1840 - John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914) who designed and built the first submarine for U.S. Navy. |
| | 1896 - William A. Wellman, American film director (d. 1975) who directed "Wings" in 1927, the first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. |
| | 1904 - Pepper Martin, baseball player (d. 1965) who was a feisty 3rd baseman for St. Louis 'Gashouse Gang'. (NL stolen base leader 1933, 34, 36) |
| | 1920 - James Mitchell, American actor known for playing Palmer on "All My Children" |
| | 1924 - Al Rosen, MLB baseball player that was a slugging 3rd basemen for Cleveland |
| | 1936 - Jack Lousma, astronaut who was a crew member of the Skylab 3 flight in 1973 and Columbia Space Shuttle in 1982 |
| | 1944 - Phyllis Frelich, deaf American actress/Tony Winner |
| | 1944 - Dennis Farina, American actor |
| | 1952 - Tim Powers, American sci-fi author of "Epitaph in Rust" and "Night Moves" |
| | 1952 - Raisa Smetanina, Russian cross-country skier |
| | 1952 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush - Born in Greensboro, North Carolina. She became America's first African-American weather anchor when Detroit, Michigan's WGPR-TV hit the airwaves in 1975; WGPR-TV was the nation's first black-owned and operated television station. |
| | 1956 - Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002) |
| | 1960 - Richard Ramirez, American serial killer |
| | 1960 - Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker |
| | 1960 - Heidi Henriksen - The 1st of 3 siblings born on consecutive Leap Days |
| | 1964 - Mervyn Warren - Five-time Grammy Award winner |
| | 1968 - Chucky Brown, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks) |
| | 1968 - Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist and filmmaker |
| | 1972 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (d. 2002) |
| | 1972 - Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American AIDS activist (d. 1994) |
| | 1976 - Ja Rule, American rapper and actor |
| | 1980 - Simon Gagné, Canadian Hockey player, NHL player (Philly Flyers) who has been an all-star |
| | 1980 - Taylor Twellman, American MLS soccer player for the New England Revolution. |
| | 1984 - Cam Ward, Canadian NHL hockey player for the Stanley Cup winning Carolina Hurricanes |
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