29th February: Celebs Born On Leap Day!

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By Anwesha Barari

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 11:50

How would it be if you would celebrate your birthday just once in 4 years? You have guessed it right, we are talking about people whose birthdays come on the 29th of February. There are lost of myths about this leap 'day' of the year; some say it is lucky while others consider it unfortunate. There are dozen different cultures dictating different dictum on this issue. So how about celebrity birthdays that fall on this extra day in February?

Let us check out those people for whom 29th February was a really famous day to be born.

Celebrities Born On 29th February:

1. Antonio Sabato Jr: He has famously said that 'Calvin Klien reinvented my career'. He was one the most famous Calvin Klien underwear models to grace the huge bill boards of America. As he is junior, his father too was an Italian actor of repute. Otherwise, he is an actor of Italian origin who did a couple of not so good movies and then the underwear commercial shot him to fame. So it was the brand CK and not being born on leap day that made him leap towards fame.

2. Dinah Shore: She reached the zenith of her popularity in the 50s and 60s so you may not know her. That doesn't take anything away from this famous American pop singer who helped pop on its way up the charts. She later became a great television show hostess for various programs. She died of Ovarian cancer in the 90s.

3. Morarji Desai: Ex Prime Minster of India was born 29th February and that was not the only reason he was famous. He was great advocate of the urine therapy; he drank his first urine of the day in the morning and that was supposed to be an immediate relief from piles or hemorrhoids that were bothering him. He continued with this practice life long and was open about it even in front of the media making himself the butt of many jokes.

4. Aileen Wuornos: She is the original 'Monster'; we are talking about the movie that got Charlize Theron an academy award. She was actually a psychotic serial killer who murdered 6 men in and around Florida way back in the 1980s. She stated the cause of her crime as brutal assault from these men when she had met them as a commercial sex worker. He was convicted and given the fatal injection. Looks like 29th February does make you kind of whacky.

5. Mark Foster: Remember the three pretty blond boys from the band 'Foster The People', well the main one among them was born on leap day. Mark Foster was the founding member of this Indi Pop band that was nominated for Grammy's.

Celebrity birthdays have a way of determining the 'stars' of the future and the mythical 29th February is a really enigmatic star.