Rare Leap Day Milestones
The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson (1812–1880), Premier of Tasmania.
In 2012, one of the rarest feats in the annals of family planning had occurred. A Utah woman gave birth on a third consecutive Leap Day, tying a record set in the 1960s. The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is a family in Norway, which logged Feb. 29 births in 1960, 1964 and 1968, according to the Guinness World Records press office.
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