What if my birthday is february 29

When Julius Caesar created the Roman calendar, he introduced an extra day every four years based on an Egyptian solar calendar. After all, since the earth takes A leap day was added to the shortest month of the — February — making those born February 29 part of an exclusive club called leaplings, leapers or leapsters.

According to The Atlantic , in , there were , Americans who celebrated their birthdays every four years. Even the fictional Superman was born on a leap day in the DC Comics universe. But the need for the extra days is perfectly pragmatic. Throughout history, leaplings have included personalities from motivational speakers to models — and a pair of mass murders and another pair of big band era personalities. Best known for his role on the soap General Hospital in the mid s, the performer also ran for U.

Obsessed with Satan, his murdering spree lasted from until he was caught in Interactive graphic: Click here to view our Leap Day graphic. This guide shows your age in "human" years and Leap Day years. If you were born on Feb. Lovebug memes: Best social media reactions, tweets about those pesky bugs. You're a newborn, and the Leap Day math does not apply to your age until the next Leap Year in , where you'll be 4 years old and 1 in Leap Day years.

Facebook Twitter Email. Leap Day birthday math: How old would you be if you were born on Leap Day? Jennifer Sangalang The News-Press. For Lily, a 28 February celebration is preferable, while Gracie says she often changes her mind over dates, sometimes at the last minute.

And Cathie and Aimee have so far managed to avoid a battle over their birthday. We milk it really," she says. Understandably, Cathie remembers 29 February rather well. On her 28th birthday, the heavily pregnant mum-to-be came downstairs after her husband Paul had gone to work. I only get a birthday every four years so I was grumpy, overdue and stewing all day. I said, 'Did you forget something, Paul? It's my leap year birthday.

Paul can't forget our birthday now he's got two of us. Elizabeth says Ivy is having a birthday party for the first time this year. When asked about her plans, Ivy says with a soon-to-be-four-year-old's simple conviction: "I play, I eat and then I have my birthday cake. Cathie says that she and Aimee "always try to go bigger on a leap year".

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