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The Hootie and the Blowfish frontman, 57, was born Friday, May 13, 1966. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were both born on Friday, June 13, 1986, making them 37 years old.
This is a list of selected February 13 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; 1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876) 1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796) 1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
The shortest period that occurs with a Friday the 13th is just one month, from February to March in a common year starting on Thursday (e.g. 2009, 2015 and 2026). On average, there is a Friday the 13th once every 212.35 days. Friday the 13ths occurs with an average frequency of 1.7218 per year or about 3477 since the year 1 CE.
Famous people born on Leap Day. Leap Day babies make up a small percentage of the population, but several notable people have been born on Feb. 29 in even-numbered years. Here are a few notable names:
1939 – In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor. 1974 – The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.
Born: Brian Littrell, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys), in Lexington, Kentucky Died: Robert Strauss , 61, American film actor known for the 1953 prisoner of war camp film Stalag 17 . February 21, 1975 (Friday)