Gioachino Rossini, born in Pesaro, Italy, on leap year day in 1792, got precious few chances to mark his actual birthday; because of the arcane vagaries of the Gregorian calendar, he even spent a ...

Rossini, who was born on February 29, 1792 in the Papal States in Italy, composed William Tell as well as the comic operas The Barber of Seville and Cinderella. The son of a trumpeter, Rossini ...

Gioachino Rossini — the famed Italian composer behind ... though and count their leap year birthdays. “It’s my 20th birthday, but I’m going to be 80 years old,” Mary Ann Brown told ...

Google's two-in-one doodle to observe Gioachino Rossini birthday and Leap Year. Google Google has come up with a new two-in-one doodle to observe the 220th birth anniversary of the Italian ...

Google celebrated the leap year, which occurs every four years, and Gioachino Antonio Rossini's birthday with a new two-in-one doodle. The frog-adorned doodle celebrates both the leap year and ...

That’s right, today’s Google Doodle — a creative and artistic play on Google’s corporate logo — commemorates the Leap Day and the birth anniversary of Gioachino Rossini’s birthday.

Let’s all join Google and hear it for Gioachino Rossini, an Italian composer who ... leap year baby), today would have marked his 220th birthday, or his 53rd if we are sticklers about ...