WAYNE, Pa. (WPVI) -- Of the approximately eight billion people on earth, an estimated five million share a Leap Day birthday. They are known as leaplings. Nico Chen of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was born on ...

TOMS RIVER - Zoey Mcilvain was nine months pregnant when doctors at Community Medical Center decided to induce labor and offered her a couple of times that were available on Feb. 28. She thought about ...

SAND SPRINGS, Okla. -- An Oklahoma woman is about to turn 100, but it's really only her 25th birthday. Mary Forsythe was born on Feb. 29, 1924 - Leap Day. Since leap years come around every four years ...

Jillian Sturgill, who turns eight this Leap Day! (Jillian Sturgill.) Jillian Sturgill gets a little twinkle in her eye when someone asks her how old she is. She’s physically 32, but she tells ...

Celebrating Heather Willey’s birthday is a rarity. She was born on Feb. 29 — Leap Day. The last Leap Year fell in 2020. Willey celebrated her birthday at a Penguins game. Then the covid-19 pandemic ...

Your chance of being born on leap day is less than 0.1%, yet when the TODAY show put out a call for leapers (people who were born on Feb. 29), we received over 1,000 responses ... and 23 leapers ...

For Christina Romano, 35, of Oakdale, growing up with a Feb. 29 birthday came with awkward explanations. At an early age, teachers were confused when she shared that she has “two birthdays.” When ...