December 24th, 1216

Born on December 24th, 1216

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 294,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 119 days, exactly on August 30th, 2024, people who were born on December 24th, 1216 will be 295,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on December 24th?

December 24th, 1918

Forces united in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes defeated Hungarian forces to end the occupation of Međimurje.

December 24th, 2021

Burmese military forces killed at least 40 civilians during the Mo So massacre in Kayah State, Myanmar.

December 24th, 2008

The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, began attacks on several villages in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing hundreds and committing numerous atrocities.

December 24th, 1999

Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 to force the release of Islamist figures held in prison in India.

December 24th, 1983

Aeroflot Flight 601 crashed on approach to Leshukonskoye in the Russian SSR, killing 44 out of 49 people on board.

December 24th, 1979

The Soviet government deployed troops in Afghanistan, starting the Soviet–Afghan War.

December 24th, 1973

The U.S. Congress granted home rule to Washington, D.C., allowing the residents to elect their own mayor and a city council.

December 24th, 1968

Piloted by Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 became the first human spaceflight to reach and orbit the Moon (Earthrise pictured).

December 24th, 1964

The Viet Cong bombed the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, killing two U.S. Army officers and raising fears of an escalation of the Vietnam War.

December 24th, 1955

According to legend, the NORAD Tracks Santa program began after children began calling the Continental Air Defense Command Center to inquire about Santa Claus's whereabouts due to a misprinted phone number in an advertisement.

December 24th, 1953

A railway bridge at Tangiwai on New Zealand's North Island was damaged by a lahar and collapsed beneath a passenger train (wreckage pictured), killing 151 people.

December 24th, 1914

World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted fighting to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce .

December 24th, 1913

Seventy-three people were crushed to death in a stampede after someone falsely yelled "fire" at a crowded Christmas party in Calumet, Michigan, U.S.

December 24th, 1871

Aida, one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, made its debut in Cairo, Egypt.

December 24th, 1865

Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded a social club they named the Ku Klux Klan, which later became a white supremacist group.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 24th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 24th?

37

Hoon Thien How

Badminton player

*December 24th, 1986, Kuala Lumpur

57

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

30

Ririn Amelia

Badminton player

*December 24th, 1993, Padang

69

Lorenz Caffier

German politician

*December 24th, 1954, Dresden

90

Witold Pyrkosz

Polish actor (1926-2017)

*December 24th, 1926, Krasnystaw †April 22nd, 2017, Warsaw

70

James Prescott Joule

English physicist and brewer (1818-1889)

*December 24th, 1818, Salford †October 11th, 1889, Sale

49

John, King of England

King of England from 1199 to 1216

*December 24th, 1166, Beaumont Palace †October 19th, 1216, Newark Castle

31

Dhurata Dora

Kosovo-Albanian singer and songwriter

*December 24th, 1992, Nuremberg

80

Tarja Halonen

President of Finland from 2000 to 2012

*December 24th, 1943, Helsinki

74

Willi Reimann

German association football player and manager

*December 24th, 1949, Fürstenau

59

Mark Valley

American actor

*December 24th, 1964, Ogdensburg

50

Stephenie Meyer

American author

*December 24th, 1973, Hartford

52

Ricky Martin

Puerto Rican singer and actor

*December 24th, 1971, San Juan

42

Dima Bilan

Russian actor and singer-songwriter

*December 24th, 1981, Ust-Dzheguta

37

Ana Brenda Contreras

American-born Mexican actress and singer

*December 24th, 1986, McAllen

69

Eugène Scribe

French dramatist and librettist (1791-1861)

*December 24th, 1791, Paris †February 20th, 1861, Paris

54

Mark Millar

British comic book writer

*December 24th, 1969, Coatbridge

34

Diafra Sakho

Senegalese and French association football player

*December 24th, 1989, Guédiawaye

66

Hamid Karzai

President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014

*December 24th, 1957, Karz

56

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist (1798-1855)

*December 24th, 1798, Zavosse †November 26th, 1855, Istanbul

93

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

10th prime minister of India in 1996, 1998 and from 1999–2004

*December 24th, 1924, Gwalior †August 16th, 2018, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

62

Ilham Aliyev

President of Azerbaijan since 2003

*December 24th, 1961, Baku

36

Jane Summersett

American ice dancer

*December 24th, 1987, Marquette

67

Ava Gardner

American actress (1922–1990)

*December 24th, 1922, Grabtown †January 25th, 1990, Westminster

76

Mauricio Kagel

Argentine-German composer (1931-2008)

*December 24th, 1931, Buenos Aires †September 18th, 2008, Cologne

33

Lars Hartig

German rower

*December 24th, 1990, Husum

46

Selim III

Ottoman sultan (1761-1808)

*December 24th, 1761, Istanbul †July 29th, 1808, Constantinople

67

Anil Kapoor

Indian actor

*December 24th, 1956, Mumbai

58

Frank Jürgen Krüger

German guitarist (1948-2007)

*December 24th, 1948, Berlin †April 26th, 2007, Berlin

96

Marc Ferro

French historian

*December 24th, 1924, 8th arrondissement of Paris †April 21st, 2021, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

32

Louis Tomlinson

English singer and songwriter

*December 24th, 1991, Doncaster

86

Alves Barbosa

Portuguese road bicycle racer (1931–2018)

*December 24th, 1931, Figueira da Foz †September 29th, 2018, Figueira da Foz

82

Wout Buitenweg

Dutch footballer (1893-1976)

*December 24th, 1893, Utrecht †November 10th, 1976, Utrecht

102

Pierre Soulages

French painter and engraver

*December 24th, 1919, Rodez †October 25th, 2022, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Nîmes

70

Lemmy

British rock musician (1945–2015)

*December 24th, 1945, Burslem †December 28th, 2015, Los Angeles

62

Wade Williams

American actor

*December 24th, 1961, Tulsa

54

Ed Miliband

British politician (born 1969)

*December 24th, 1969, London

92

Mary Higgins Clark

American author of suspense novels (1927–2020)

*December 24th, 1927, New York City †January 31st, 2020, Naples

82

Hans Eichel

German politician

*December 24th, 1941, Kassel

64

Michaela Noll

German politician and lawyer. Major member of the Bundestag

*December 24th, 1959, Düsseldorf

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 24th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Christmas Eve) which are celebrated on December 24th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1216 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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