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"February" can be pronounced in several different ways. The beginning of the word is commonly pronounced either as / ˈ f ɛ b j u-/ ⓘ FEB-yoo-or / ˈ f ɛ b r u-/ FEB-roo-; many people drop the first "r", replacing it with / j /, as if it were spelled "Febuary".
January 0 or 0 January is an alternative name for December 31.January 0 is the day before January 1 in an annual ephemeris.It keeps the date in the year for which the ephemeris was published, thus avoiding any reference to the previous year, even though it is the same day as December 31 of the previous year.
1630 – William Brade, English violinist and composer (b. 1560) 1638 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician and linguist (b. 1581) 1723 – Thomas d'Urfey, English poet and playwright (b. 1653) 1726 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662) 1770 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1692)
February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.It is the 60th day of a leap year in both Julian and Gregorian calendars, and 306 days remain until the end of the leap year.
1993 – Bobby Moore, English footballer and manager (b. 1941) 1994 – Jean Sablon, French singer and actor (b. 1906) 1994 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916) 1998 – Antonio Prohías, Cuban-American cartoonist (b. 1921) 1998 – Henny Youngman, English-American comedian and violinist (b. 1906)
1944 – Mick Green, English guitarist (d. 2010) 1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2003) 1944 – Christopher Meyer, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (d. 2022) 1944 – Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player and painter [74] 1945 – Oliver, American pop singer (d. 2000)
1950 – Tony Wilson, English journalist and businessman (d. 2007) 1951 – Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006) 1951 – Gordon Brown, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [40] 1951 – Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997) 1951 – Phil Neal, English footballer and manager
1609 – John Suckling, English poet and playwright (d. 1642) 1627 – Cornelis de Bie, Flemish poet and jurist (d. 1715) 1685 – Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (d. 1750) 1696 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (d. 1765) 1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (d. 1819)