The 59th day of the year
Born on 28 February
Every 28 February birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Pisces, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- PiscesWater, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 28 February in any year.
Which weekday 28 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 28 February falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Tuesday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Sunday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 28 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,823 babies were born on 28 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 146th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 28 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533–1592 | French author, philosopher, and statesman |
| Linus Pauling | 1901–1994 | American scientist |
| Paul Krugman | 1953– | American economist |
| Frank Gehry | 1929–2025 | Canadian and American architect |
| Gilbert Gottfried | 1955–2022 | American stand-up comedian |
| Steven Chu | 1948– | American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate |
| Leon Cooper | 1930–2024 | American physicist |
| Dino Zoff | 1942– | Italian association football player and manager |
| Daniel C. Tsui | 1939– | Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| Peter Medawar | 1915–1987 | Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine |
| Mario Andretti | 1940– | Italian-American racing driver |
| Ali Larter | 1976– | American actress and model |
| Jelena Janković | 1985– | Serbian tennis player |
| John Turturro | 1957– | American actor |
| Luka Dončić | 1999– | Slovenian basketball player |
| Arkadiusz Milik | 1994– | Polish association football player |
| Brian Jones | 1942–1969 | British musician |
| Natalia Vodianova | 1982– | Russian model |
Died on 28 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ali Khamenei | 1939–2026 | Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026 |
| Donald Glaser | 1926–2013 | American physicist and neurobiologist |
| Freeman Dyson | 1923–2020 | theoretical physicist and mathematician |
| Owen Chamberlain | 1920–2006 | American physicist |
| Charles Nicolle | 1866–1936 | French microbiologist |
| Christian IV of Denmark | 1577–1648 | king of Denmark and Norway |
| Khosrow II | 570–628 | Sasanian ruler of Iran from 590 to 628 |
| Annie Girardot | 1931–2011 | French actress |
| George Kennedy | 1925–2016 | American actor |
| Yaşar Kemal | 1923–2015 | Turkish writer of Kurdish descent and human rights activist |
| André Previn | 1929–2019 | German-American conductor, pianist, and composer |
| Aziz Nasirzadeh | 1964–2026 | Iranian military officer |
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