| Famous
Leap Day Babies of History
from 1468 to 1992 |
| 1468 |
Pope
Paul III last Renaissance pope (1534-1549) |
| 1692 |
John
Byrom, English
poet, hymnist, and inventor of a system of
shorthand. (d. 1763) |
| 1692 |
Edward Cave, England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine) |
| 1696 |
Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer |
| 1712 |
General
Montcalm - Hero of the French & Indian war |
| 1728 |
Robert
Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner) |
| 1736 |
Ann
Lee, Shaker movement, Manchester England, Founded the Shaker
movement and
brought it
to America in
1776. (d. 1784) |
| 1756 |
Christian
F. Hansen - Danish architect |
| 1784 |
Franz KL von Klenze, German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg) |
| 1792 |
Karl
Baer - Embryologist, found mammals develop from
eggs |
| 1792 |
Gioacchino
Rossini - Italian composer (The Barber of
Seville, William Tell) (d.1868). |
| 1792 |
Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia,
Naturalist (discovered human ovum) |
| 1796 |
[Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian
Astronomer / Meteorology |
| 1808 |
Charles
Pritchard - British Astronomer |
| 1812 |
Hermann
Hirschboch, German composer |
| 1820 |
Adolf
Schimon, composer |
| 1828 |
Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela |
| 1828 |
John
Phillip Holland, Ireland - Designed and built the first
submarine for U.S. Navy (d.1914)
Some lists show him born February 29 in 1828,
others in 1840. |
| 1840 |
| 1844 |
French
Ensor Chadwick - Naval officer at battle of
Santiago de Cuba. |
| 1852 |
Frank
Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (d. 1936) |
| 1856 |
Sedley
Brown - Twin brother of J. Edwin Brown, American
playwright, author, stage director, actor |
| 1856 |
J.
Edwin Brown - Twin brother of Sedley Brown, USA,
Actor |
| 1860 |
Herman
Hollerith - American statistician. Inventor of the 1st Electric
Tabulating Machine. (d. 1929) |
| 1864 |
Jan
Svatopluk - Czech poet |
| 1864 |
Albert
Patry - Elbing, East Prussia, Germany [now
Elblag, Poland], Actor |
| 1864 |
Alice
Davenport - USA, silent screen comedic actress |
| 1884 |
Alfred
Sendrey, composer |
| 1876 |
John
Harwood - UK, Actor |
| 1888 |
John
Costigan, American regionalist printmaker,
and a cousin of the noted American showman,
George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and were
instrumental in starting him
on a career in the visual arts. |
| 1892 |
Augusta
Christine Savage -
Augusta
Christine Fells - American sculptor and
educator who battled
racism to
secure
a place for
African American women in the art world.
She became the
first Black member of
the
National Association of
Women Painters and Sculptures in 1934. |
| 1896 |
Ranchhodji
Mararji
Desai - 6th Prime Minister of India from March
24, 1977 to July 15 1979. At 83,
he
was the oldest Prime Minister of India. (d.
1995) |
| 1896 |
Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer |
| 1896 |
Omer C F L Tulippe, Belgian geographer |
| 1896 |
Stanley Swash, CEO
(Woolworths) |
| 1896 |
William
A. Wellman - American Film Director, (first picture to
win an Oscar (1928) "WINGS") (d. 1975) |
| 1896 |
Archie
Ricks - Actor, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director,
Director |
| 1904 |
Adolph
Blaine Charles David Earl
Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin
John Kenneth Lloyd
Martin
Nero Oliver Paul Quincy
Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas
Victor William
Xerxes Yancy
Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorft
Sr., Germany; had a Christian
name for every
letter in the alphabet, shortened it to Mr Wolfe
Plus 585 Sr. The world's
longest name officially
used by a person. |
| 1904 |
John
"Pepper"
Martin - Feisty 3rd baseman for St. Louis
'Gashouse Gang'.
(NL stolen base leader 1933, 34, 36) (d. 1965) |
| 1904 |
Alan Richardson, composer |
|
1904 |
Rukmini Devi
Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of
Kalakshetra (d. 1986) |
| 1904 |
Jimmy
Dorsey (James Francis Dorsey) - Legendary
saxophonist, conductor, songwriter and composer.
He formed an orchestra with his brother, Tommy
Dorsey, lasting from 1933 to 1935, and then led
his
own orchestra, rejoining Tommy's orchestra in
1953 and taking over the orchestra at Tommy's
death.
(d. 1957) |
| 1908 |
Alf
Gover, English cricketer (bowled in 4 Tests for
England/famous coach) (d. 2001) |
| 1908 |
Balthus
(Balthasar Klossowski) - French-Polish painter, considered
one of the 20th century's greatest
realist
painters. (d. 2001) |
| 1908 |
Masahiro
Makino - Japan - Film director |
| 1908 |
Bernard
C. Boyd - Glassmaker and Chemist. Founded Boyd
Glass with his son. |
| 1908 |
Dee
Alexander Brown II - He became known to the larger
public as a novelist and historian. His great
novel
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is
still perhaps the best historical portrayal of
the violent relationship
between Native Americans and the expansionist
Americans with their roots in the Old World. |
|
1908 |
Edward B. Taylor -
Photographer - documented Dayton, Ohio's African
American culture in photographs
for nearly 40 years. He was Dayton's first Black
commercial photographer. |
| 1908 |
Renee
Evans - Film actress and Mother of stage actress
'Diane Alban' |
| 1912 |
Gaetano
Amata - Italy - Film Writer, Director, Assistant
Director, Production Manager, Producer |
| 1912 |
Mary
McAdoo - USA, She was named the "Most
Outstanding Female Personality"
by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
in 1955. |
| 1916 |
Leonard
S. Shoen - Entrepreneur, founded U-Haul Rental
System. |
| 1916 |
Dinah
Shore (Frances Rose Shore) - USA, Actress,
Singer, Talk Show Host.
Some sources list her birth date as March 1,
1917 |
| 1920 |
Kosti
Klemela - Finland - Actor |
| 1920 |
Don
Ornitz - Photographer and Miscellaneous Crew |
| 1920 |
Alberto
Ribeiro - Portugal - Composer, Actor,
Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Director, |
| 1920 |
Arthur
Franz, USA, Actor, (That Champion
Season, Invaders From Mars, Young Lions) |
| 1920 |
Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72) |
| 1920 |
James Mitchell,
USA, Actor (Palmer-All My Children) |
| 1920 |
Howard
Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991) |
| 1920 |
Michelle
Morgan - French Actress ("Symphonie Pastorale")
France |
| 1924 |
William
D. Hathaway - U.S. Senator (R) from Maine
(1973-1979). |
| 1924 |
Otto
Hutter,
Physiologist |
|
1924 |
Carlos Humberto
Romero, President of El Salvador |
| 1924 |
David Beattie, British governor-general of NZ |
| 1924 |
Al
Rosen - Ballplayer, slugging Cleveland 3rd
baseman. |
| 1928 |
Joss
Ackland - British actor |
| 1928 |
Alan
Loveday, British(?) violinist |
| 1928 |
McHenry
Boatwright - Opera Singer, American baritone. |
| 1928 |
Tempest
Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks), American
actress and star of burlesque. She took the
name
Tempest Storm as her stage name around 1950,
legally changing her name in 1957. |
| 1932 |
Newel
Kay Brown - Wrote the children's song, "I
Hope They Call Me On A Mission," which
every child in
the world-wide Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (often called Mormon) has sung
since 1970. |
| 1932 |
Jaguar,
Brazilian cartoonist |
| 1932 |
Gavin Stevens, cricket (Australian bat on 59-60 India/Pakistan tour) |
|
1932 |
Masten Gregory,
American F1 Driver |
|
1932 |
Gene Golub, American
mathematician (d. 2007) |
| 1936 |
Erik
Häkkinen - Producer, Director, Writer, Editor,
Actor, Cinematographer |
| 1936 |
Alwin
Schockemohle, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1976) |
| 1936 |
Alex Rocco,
American Actor |
| 1936 |
Jack
Lousma - Astronaut; was a crew member of the
Skylab 3 flight in 1973
and Columbia Space
Shuttle in 1982. |
| 1936 |
Henri "The Pocket Rocket" Richard - NHL Hall of Fame Center, Montreal
Canadians. |
| 1936 |
Sharon
Webb - Science Fiction Novelist (Earthchild) |
| 1940 |
Patriarch
Bartholomew I of Constantinople |
| 1940 |
Gretchen
Christopher - Multi-Gold Record Artist, BMI
"Million Airs" Songwriter ("Come
Softly To Me"),
Female Lead Vocalist/Arranger,
Dancer/Choreographer and Founder of "The
Fleetwoods", first group in
the history of Rock & Roll to have multiple
#1 Records top Billboard's Hot 100 in a single
year (1959).
Leap Year
Autobiographical Solo CD, Gretchen's SWEET
SIXTEEN! (2004-7),
www.GretchenChristopher.com.
Gretchen
Christopher is Member #1004 in the Honor
Society of Leap Year Day Babies. |
| 1940 |
Billy
Turner - Thoroughbred horse trainer,
"Seattle Slew". |
|
1940 |
Sanda Aronson - New
York, USA - started the Disabled Artists'
Network in April, 1985 -
Sanda Aronson is
sui generis as an artist in that she is both a
romantic (she generates the astonishment evoked
by the great
collagists who marry the disparate to create a
new language) and a fiercely political
artist/activist. She is
fluent in many mediums but her underlying
message is love of beauty and love of humanity.
www.artistlightbox.com/sandaaronson |
| 1944 |
David Briggs, record producer |
| 1944 |
Ene
Ergma, Estonian polotician |
| 1944 |
Dennis Farina,
USA, Actor |
| 1944 |
Phyllis
Frelich - deaf American actress, Member of National Theatre of
the Deaf,
Devil's Lake ND, (Love is Never Silent) |
| 1944 |
Sharon
Hugueny - Actress |
| 1944 |
John
Niland - NFL guard for Dallas Cowboys. |
| 1944 |
Paolo
Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian illustrator |
| 1948 |
Willi
Smith - Fashion designer. |
| 1948 |
Yuri
Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976) |
| 1948 |
Patricia [Anne]
McKillip, US, sci-fi author (Fool's Run) |
| 1948 |
Nikolai
Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976) |
| 1948 |
Gérard
Darmon - Actor, France |
| 1952 |
Bart
Stupak, American polotician (Rep-D-Michigan) |
| 1952 |
Raisa
Smetanina, USSR, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976, 80, 92) |
| 1952 |
Raul Gonzalez, Mexican 50K speed walker (world record) |
| 1952 |
Tim[othy] Powers, US, sci-fi author (Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves) |
| 1952 |
Randy Jackson, rocker
(Zebra - I Don't Know, I Don't Care) |
| 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 |
Peter
Brouwer (LDB # 1 in the Honor Society of
Leap Day Babies) - Founded Leap Year Babies
Honor
Society (in 1997). |
| 1956 |
Jonathan
Coleman, Anglo-Australian radio and television
personality |
| 1956 |
Neil
Rosenthal (LDB # 57 in the Honor Society of Leap
Day Babies) - Poet published
by The National
Library of Poetry. |
| 1956 |
Bob
Speller, Canadian politician - his father-in-law
is also a Leap Day Baby |
|
1956 |
J. Randy
Taraborrelli, American celebritiy journalist
|
| 1960 |
Raenell
Dawn (LDB # 39 in the Honor Society of Leap
Day Babies) - Founded Leap Year Babies
Limited
(in 1987). |
| 1960 |
Dan
Daoust - NHL center for Toronto Maple Leafs. |
| 1960 |
Heidi
Henriksen - The 1st of 3 siblings born on
consecutive Leap Days. |
| 1960 |
Ian
McKenzie Anderson, British musician and record
producer |
| 1960 |
Anthony
Robbins - American Motivational Speaker |
|
1960 |
Khaled, Algerian raď
musician |
|
1964 |
James Robert Bruce
Ogilvy, the only son of Princess Alexandra, The
Honourable Lady Ogilvy
and the late Sir Angus Ogilvy. He is second
cousin to Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 1964 |
Lyndon
Byers, Canadian hockey player |
| 1964 |
Olav
Henriksen - The 2nd of 3 siblings born on
consecutive Leap Days. |
| 1964 |
James RB
Ogilvy, son of English princess Alexandra |
| 1964 |
Antonella
Ponziani - Actress, Director, Italy |
| 1964 |
Henrik
Sundstrom, Sweden, tennis star |
| 1964 |
Mervyn
Warren - Five-time Grammy Award winner (as of
2004), original member of the vocal group
"Take 6" |
|
1964 |
Jahred Shane,
Afro-Brazilian rapper/singer of (həd) p.e. |
| 1968 |
Suanne
Braun, South African-born actress |
| 1968 |
Chucky Brown, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks) |
| 1968 |
Cary Conklin, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers) |
| 1968 |
Gareth
Farr - Composer and Percussionist, born in
Wellington, New Zealand |
| 1968 |
Pete
Fenson, American curler |
|
1968 |
Naoko Iijima,
Japanese actress |
| 1968 |
Leif-Martin
Henriksen - The 3rd of 3 siblings born on
consecutive Leap Days. |
| 1968 |
Gonzalo
Lira, Chilean-American novelist and filmmaker |
| 1968 |
Bryce
Paup, American football player, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills) |
| 1972 |
Cyrus Beasley, Rowe NY, rower (Olympics-1996) |
| 1972 |
Fabien
Bownes, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears) |
| 1972 |
Chris Devine, Allentown Pa, diver (Olympics-96) |
| 1972 |
Mark
Farraway, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) |
| 1972 |
Antonio
Sabato, Jr. - Italian-born actor |
| 1972 |
Dave
Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (d.
2002) |
| 1972 |
Saul
Williams - Rap Poet, Actor, USA |
| 1972 |
Pedro
Zamora, Cuban-born American AIDS activist (d.
1994) |
| 1976 |
David
Kendall Sr. - Actor, USA |
| 1976 |
Bryan
Gillooly, Auburn NY, diver (Olympics-96) |
| 1976 |
Ja
Rule - American Rapper and Actor |
| 1980 |
Eric
Benz - Actor, Germany |
| 1980 |
Simon Gagne,
Canadian Hockey player, NHL player (Philly Flyers) who
has been an all-star |
| 1980 |
Taylor
Twellman, American soccer player |
| 1984 |
Darren
Ambrose, English footballer |
| 1984 |
Cam
Ward, Canadian hockey player |
|
1984 |
Adam Sinclair,
Indian Hockey player |
|
1988 |
Scott Golbourne,
English footballer |
| 1992 |
Caitlin
E.J. Meyer - Actress |
