A rather enjoyable homeless man who spends most of his days in our library asked me, "why can't that extra day for leap year be in the summer when the weather's nice?"
The only person I know of--famous or not--with a leap year birthday is Gretchen Christopher of the Olympia vocal trio the Fleetwoods, who had two US number one hits in 1959, "Come Softly to Me" and the iridescent "Mr. Blue," a particular favorite.
Gretchen was in our library branch recently and was happy I knew of her; in fact, I told her I interviewed her for KAOS in 1994. Hadn't seen her in thirty years and she was amazed I remembered her leap year birthday, which really isn't a difficult recall. We had a nice chat.
The funny coincidence about this was that that very morning, before I talked to the singer, I noticed a book about Olympia High School on display. I thought, "this had better have the Fleetwoods in it!" and sure enough, there they were: Gary Troxel, Barbara Ellis and Ms. Christopher. The book referred to those songs I listed as "album singles," I guess wanting everyone to know that the Fleetwoods recorded albums as well as singles. It's prestige, right?