People born on Leap Day, February 29:

• Pope Paul III (1468)
• Gioacchino Rossini (1792)
• Jimmy Dorsey (1904)
• Dinah Shore (1916)
• Howard Nemerov (1920)
• Dennis Farina (1944)
• Richard Ramirez (1960)
• Tony Robbins (1960)
• Eugene Volokh (1968)
• Ja Rule (1976)

Sir James Wilson (1812-1880), premier of Tasmania, both entered and left the world on Leap Day. He died on his 68th birthday — or, arguably, on his 17th.