December 21st, 1048

Born on December 21st, 1048

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 356,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 696 days, exactly on May 28th, 2026, people who were born on December 21st, 1048 will be 357,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on December 21st?

December 21st, 2018

Operatives of the British Special Boat Service boarded the container ship Grande Tema in the Thames Estuary to detain four stowaways who had threatened the crew.

December 21st, 2012

Countries that were part of the Maya civilization celebrated the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.

December 21st, 1995

In accordance with the Oslo II Accord, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem in preparation for the transfer of control to the Palestinian National Authority.

December 21st, 1994

Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, dormant for 47 years, began erupting, and is now one of the nation's most active volcanoes.

December 21st, 1988

A bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 detonated over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.

December 21st, 1970

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat, the primary fighter aircraft of the U.S. Navy for nearly 30 years, made its first flight.

December 21st, 1968

Apollo 8 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a trajectory to the Moon; its crew (pictured) became the first humans to visit another celestial body.

December 21st, 1965

The United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which 88 member states have since signed.

December 21st, 1937

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length cel-animated feature in film history, premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.

December 21st, 1934

Lieutenant Kijé, one of Sergei Prokofiev's best-known works, premiered.

December 21st, 1923

Nepal and the United Kingdom signed the first treaty that defined the international status of Nepal as an independent and a sovereign nation.

December 21st, 1919

After serving two years in prison for encouraging people to resist military conscription, anarchist Emma Goldman was deported from the United States to Russia.

December 21st, 1872

HMS Challenger departed Portsmouth on a scientific expedition that laid the foundations of oceanography.

December 21st, 1826

Settlers from the United States in Mexican Texas made the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the short-lived Republic of Fredonia.

December 21st, 1620

The Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower landed at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, to establish the Plymouth Colony.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 21st

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 21st?

46

Emmanuel Macron

President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017

*December 21st, 1977, Amiens

84

Ove Sprogøe

Danish actor (1919-2004)

*December 21st, 1919, Odense †September 14th, 2004, Tårnby

83

Marta Linz

Hungarian violinist, composer, conductor

*December 21st, 1898, Budapest †January 11th, 1982, Berlin

54

Magnus Samuelsson

Swedish strongman

*December 21st, 1969, Kisa

57

Kiefer Sutherland

British-Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

86

Jane Fonda

American actress and activist

*December 21st, 1937, New York City

36

Khris Davis

Baseball player from the United States

*December 21st, 1987, Lakewood

74

Claire Préaux

Belgican classical scholar (1904-1979)

*December 21st, 1904, Liège †March 28th, 1979, Ixelles - Elsene

75

Jared Martin

American actor (1941-2017)

*December 21st, 1941, Queens †May 24th, 2017, Philadelphia

56

Mikheil Saakashvili

Georgian-Ukrainian politician, former President of Georgia and former Governor of Odesa

*December 21st, 1967, Tbilisi

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

22

Linda Mazri

Badminton player

*December 21st, 2001, El Biar

48

Charles Michel

Belgian politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European Council

*December 21st, 1975, Namur

75

Samuel L. Jackson

American actor (born 1948)

*December 21st, 1948, Washington, D.C.

57

William Ruto

President of Kenya since 2022

*December 21st, 1966, Kamagut

79

Michael Tilson Thomas

American conductor, pianist and composer

*December 21st, 1944, Los Angeles

71

Dennis Boutsikaris

American actor

*December 21st, 1952, Newark

81

John G. Avildsen

American film director

*December 21st, 1935, Oak Park †June 16th, 2017, Los Angeles

54

Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt

German architect and architectural historian

*December 21st, 1963, Freiburg im Breisgau †June 13th, 2018, Athens

64

Corinne Touzet

French actress and television producer

*December 21st, 1959, Orthez

52

Frank Zappa

American musician (1940–1993)

*December 21st, 1940, Baltimore †December 4th, 1993, Los Angeles

67

Heinrich Böll

German writer (1917–1985)

*December 21st, 1917, Cologne †July 16th, 1985, Langenbroich

76

Rolf Sagen

Norwegian writer (1940-2017)

*December 21st, 1940, Vadheim †April 6th, 2017

88

Kurt Waldheim

Austrian politician and diplomat (1918-2007)

*December 21st, 1918, Sankt Andrä-Wördern †June 14th, 2007, Vienna

76

Benjamin Disraeli

British statesman (1804–1881)

*December 21st, 1804, London †April 19th, 1881, Mayfair

58

Cem Özdemir

German politician, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture

*December 21st, 1965, Bad Urach

49

Karrie Webb

Australian golfer

*December 21st, 1974, Ayr

58

Andy Dick

American comedian and actor

*December 21st, 1965, Charleston

84

Robert Brown

Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion

*December 21st, 1773, Montrose †June 10th, 1858, London

45

Alexander Wolf

German biathlete

*December 21st, 1978, Schmalkalden

58

Anke Engelke

German actress

*December 21st, 1965, Montreal

37

Per Fredrik Åsly

Norwegian singer

*December 21st, 1986, Sandefjord Municipality

84

David Baker

American jazz composer, trombonist, professor of music and author (1931-2016)

*December 21st, 1931, Indianapolis †March 26th, 2016, Bloomington

77

Josh Mostel

American actor

*December 21st, 1946, New York City

71

Alice Tan Ridley

American singer

*December 21st, 1952, Georgia

57

Marco Borsato

Dutch singer

*December 21st, 1966, Alkmaar

51

Thomas Becket

English archbishop and martyr, 1119/1120–1170

*December 21st, 1119, Cheapside †December 29th, 1170, Canterbury Cathedral

66

Paco de Lucía

Spanish flamenco, classical, jazz guitarist & musician (1947-2014)

*December 21st, 1947, Algeciras †February 25th, 2014, Playa del Carmen

73

Mily Balakirev

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (1837-1910)

*December 21st, 1836, Nizhny Novgorod †May 16th, 1910, Saint Petersburg

34

Tamannaah Bhatia

Indian actress (born 1989)

*December 21st, 1989, Mumbai

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 21st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Earliest usual date for the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, and its related observances) which are celebrated on December 21st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1048 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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