Leap Day Traditions and Superstitions. The Henriksen family from Andenes, Norway currently holds the official record for the most number of children born in one family on leap day. Karin Henriksen gave birth to three children on February 29; her daughter Heidi in and her sons Olav and Leif-Martin in and Topics: Calendar , Leap Year , February.
Sign in. Leap years are years where an extra, or intercalary, day is added to the end of February. Leap years have days instead of and occur every four years. The intercalary day, February 29, has become known as Leap Day. Because of the. Eventually this extra time would knock the Gregorian calendar out of sync with the seasons, eventually shifting the seasons by about 24 calendar days within a century. If this continued for just a few centuries, Christmas would fall in the middle of summer for the Northern Hemisphere.
Leapers will typically celebrate their birthdays on non-leap years either a day before or after, but it no doubt feels particularly special to be able to mark their birthday on the day they were actually born.
If this continued for some centuries, Christmas would fall in the middle of summer for the Northern Hemisphere. People born on a lead day are called leaplings, and are sometimes referred to as leapers, leapters or leap day babies. Countries like New Zealand and the United Kingdom have laws specifically for those born on a leap day. In New Zealand, the official birthday for those born on a leap day falls on February 28 while in the UK the official birthday is March 1.
The chances of a baby being born on February 29 is very slim — about 1 in 1, this is because February 29 only comes around once every 1, days. So many people can find a list of famous people who share the same date of birth as them, but for leaplings, the list is much shorter.
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