# Any birthdays today? (February 29th)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 1, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580 "2016-03-01T00:11:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/1 "2016-03-01T00:11:09Z")
My dad turns 96 today, though he has really only had about 23 birthdays.
Any one else?
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/2 "2016-03-01T00:13:56Z")
Cameron on **Modern Family**. That’s all I got. :o
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/3 "2016-03-01T00:30:41Z")
A local radio DJ in my area (who is in his 40’s) wished his older sister a “happy 14th birthday” on the air today. Other than that, I got nothin’
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### Author:  [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/4 "2016-03-01T00:38:06Z")
Not me personally, but a good friend turned “12” today. Her daughter teases her that she (the daughter) will be a teenager before her mom is.
I also have two aunts by marriage who are leap year babies. One turned “16” today. The other one was born very close to midnight 2/29 and her father somehow convinced the doctor to not record her time of birth until 12:01 am on March 1st.
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### Author:  [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/5 "2016-03-01T03:09:18Z")
My uncle Mark, and my cats, Boris and Natasha.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/6 "2016-03-01T03:17:59Z")
I have a cousin whose birthday is February 29.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/7 "2016-03-01T03:18:10Z")
Not a birthday, but I joined this site Feb 29th 2000. Yeah I know it says March. One of the board upgrades changed the date. ☹
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/8 "2016-03-01T10:47:12Z")
Check out the fifth post in this thread:
> **[Happy Leap Day!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=785523)**
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> Yes, it’s that once-every-four-years day! Are you doing anything special?
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/9 "2016-03-01T13:41:15Z")
I posted on FB yesterday: We wish (or son and DIL) happy sixth anniversary of their engagement. My son chose Feb. 29 to propose since he would never forget that date. Neither did we.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-birthdays-today-february-29th/747580/10 "2016-03-03T04:10:50Z")
The wife of a former coworker of mine was born on Leap Year Day. She never made a big deal of it.
It was also a plot point in Gilbert & Sullivan’s _The Pirates of Penzance_, of course: [The Pirates of Penzance - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance)