December 31st, 1479

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Born on December 31st, 1479 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on December 31st?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on December 31st
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (December 1479)

Born on December 31st, 1479

Weekday

Wednesday

December 31st, 1479 was a Wednesday.

Age

544

People born on December 31st, 1479 will turn 545 this year (2024), in exactly 241 days .

Zodiac

♑

Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

December 22nd, 1479 - January 20th, 1480

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 198,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 183 days, exactly on November 3rd, 2024, people who were born on December 31st, 1479 will be 199,000 days old!

198,817 Days

28,402 Weeks

6,532 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Minutes

Hours

What happened on December 31st?

December 31st, 1950

Korean War: North Korean troops attacked United Nations forces in the first of two battles at Wonju.

December 31st, 2010

28 tornadoes (one depicted) touched down in midwestern and southern United States, part of an outbreak that led to the deaths of nine people and large property damage.

December 31st, 1999

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin became acting president upon President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation.

December 31st, 1998

The European Exchange Rate Mechanism froze the exchange rates of the legacy currencies in the eurozone, establishing the value of the euro.

December 31st, 1993

Brandon Teena, an American trans man, was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska; his death led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States.

December 31st, 1986

Three disgruntled employees set fire to the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing more than 90 people and injuring 140 others, making it the second-deadliest hotel fire in United States history.

December 31st, 1972

Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to victims of that year's Nicaragua earthquake.

December 31st, 1965

Central African military officers led by Jean-Bédel Bokassa began a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.

December 31st, 1961

RTÉ, Ireland's first television network, began broadcasting.

December 31st, 1909

The Manhattan Bridge, connecting Lower Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn and considered to be the forerunner of modern suspension bridges, opened to traffic.

December 31st, 1907

New York City held its first annual ball drop event in Times Square as part of New Year's Eve celebrations.

December 31st, 1862

The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began with an engagement in which both sides would suffer their highest casualty rates in the American Civil War.

December 31st, 1857

Queen Victoria announced the choice of Ottawa (pictured), then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada.

December 31st, 1775

American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support.

December 31st, 1759

Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum to the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin and began brewing Guinness.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 31st

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 31st?

Jacques Cartier

Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)

*December 31st, 1491, Saint-Malo †September 1st, 1557, Saint-Malo

Vernon Wells

Australian actor

*December 31st, 1945, Rushworth

Henri Matisse

French artist (1869–1954)

*December 31st, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis †November 3rd, 1954, Nice

Manu Attri

Badminton player

*December 31st, 1992, Meerut

Andreas Vesalius

Flemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)

*December 31st, 1514, Mont aux Potences - Galgenberg †October 16th, 1564, Zakynthos

Anthony Hopkins

Welsh actor and director (born 1937)

*December 31st, 1937, Port Talbot

Ferdinand Noack

German classical archaeologist and classical philologist (1865-1931)

*December 31st, 1865, Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe †September 21st, 1931, Berlin

Rudy Gunawan

Badminton player

*December 31st, 1966, Surakarta City

Bas Böttcher

German writer and poetry slam performer

*December 31st, 1974, Bremen

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter

*December 31st, 1908, Buchach †September 20th, 2005, Vienna

Vaughan Jones

New Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist

*December 31st, 1952, Gisborne †September 6th, 2020, Nashville

James Remar

American actor

*December 31st, 1953, Boston

Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

King of Saudi Arabia since 2015

*December 31st, 1935, Riyadh

Bebe Neuwirth

American actress

*December 31st, 1958, Newark

Grégory Coupet

French association football player

*December 31st, 1972, Le Puy-en-Velay

George Marshall

American army officer and statesman (1880–1959)

*December 31st, 1880, Uniontown †October 16th, 1959, Washington, D.C.

Ben Kingsley

English actor

*December 31st, 1943, Snainton

Jan Smit

Dutch singer and TV presenter

*December 31st, 1985, Volendam

Elizabeth Arden

Canadian American businesswoman

*December 31st, 1878, Woodbridge †October 18th, 1966, New York City

Francesco Alberoni

Italian journalist and professor of sociology (1929–2023)

*December 31st, 1929, Borgonovo Val Tidone †August 14th, 2023, Milan

Same year
Born in 1479

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain

*November 30th, 1479, Ponte da Barca †April 27th, 1521, Mactan

Juana I of Castile

Queen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516

*November 6th, 1479, Toledo †April 12th, 1555, Tordesillas

Vasili III of Moscow

Grand Prince of Moscow from 1505 to 1533

*March 25th, 1479, Moscow †December 3rd, 1533, Moscow

Lazarus Spengler

German hymnwriter

*March 13th, 1479, Nuremberg †September 7th, 1534, Nuremberg

John Gage

English courtier during the Tudor period

*October 28th, 1479, Burstow †April 18th, 1556, Firle Place

Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours

Italian nobleman, the third son of Lorenzo the Magnificent (1479-1516)

*March 12th, 1479, Florence †March 17th, 1516, Florence

Lisa del Giocondo

Subject of the Mona Lisa

*June 15th, 1479, Florence †July 25th, 1542, Florence

Joan Gascó

Spanish painter (1480-1529)

*November 30th, 1479, Tafalla †November 30th, 1528, Vic

Bogdan III the One-Eyed

Voivode of Moldavia

*March 9th, 1479, Huși †April 20th, 1517, Huși

Guru Amar Das

The third Guru of Sikhism

*May 5th, 1479, Amritsar †September 1st, 1574, Goindwal Sahib

Pompeo Colonna

Catholic cardinal

*May 12th, 1479, Rome †June 28th, 1532, Naples

Catherine of York

English princess

*August 14th, 1479, Eltham Palace †November 15th, 1527, Tiverton

Johann Cochlaeus

German humanist

*January 10th, 1479, Wendelstein †January 11th, 1552, Wrocław

Ippolito d'Este

Catholic cardinal

*March 20th, 1479, Ferrara †September 3rd, 1520, Ferrara

Duke Heinrich V, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Duke of Mecklenburg

*May 3rd, 1479, Schwerin †February 6th, 1552, Schwerin

Vallabha

Hindu philosopher and founder of Pushtimarg, a Vaishnav Hindu sect

*January 1st, 1479, Champaran, Chhattisgarh †January 1st, 1531, Varanasi

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi

Italian poet

*June 13th, 1479, Ferrara †January 31st, 1552, Ferrara

Celio Calcagnini

Italian humanist

*September 17th, 1479, Ferrara †April 24th, 1541, Ferrara

Veit Werner von Zimmern

*June 15th, 1479, Messkirch †April 25th, 1499, Sulz am Neckar

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 31st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, New Year's Eve) which are celebrated on December 31st.

First Night (United States)

New Year's Eve (International observance), and its related observancesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Night

Last Day of the Year or Bisperás ng Bagong Taón, special holiday between Rizal Day and New Year's Day (Philippines)

New Year's Eve (International observance), and its related observancesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_Philippines

Novy God Eve (Russia)

New Year's Eve (International observance), and its related observancesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novy_God

Ōmisoka (Japan)

New Year's Eve (International observance), and its related observancesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōmisoka

The first day of Hogmanay or "Auld Year's Night" (Scotland)

New Year's Eve (International observance), and its related observancesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay

The seventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas

The sixth and penultimate day of Kwanzaa (United States)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penult

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXXI.XII.MCDLXXIX

31.12.1479

Legend

M = 1000

CD = 400

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1479 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
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December 31st, 1479

Born on December 31st, 1479

Weekday

Wednesday

Age

Zodiac

♑

Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 198,000 days old!

198,817 Days

28,402 Weeks

6,532 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on December 31st?

Korean War: North Korean troops attacked United Nations forces in the first of two battles at Wonju.

28 tornadoes (one depicted) touched down in midwestern and southern United States, part of an outbreak that led to the deaths of nine people and large property damage.

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin became acting president upon President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation.

The European Exchange Rate Mechanism froze the exchange rates of the legacy currencies in the eurozone, establishing the value of the euro.

Brandon Teena, an American trans man, was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska; his death led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States.

Three disgruntled employees set fire to the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing more than 90 people and injuring 140 others, making it the second-deadliest hotel fire in United States history.

Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to victims of that year's Nicaragua earthquake.

Central African military officers led by Jean-Bédel Bokassa began a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.

RTÉ, Ireland's first television network, began broadcasting.

The Manhattan Bridge, connecting Lower Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn and considered to be the forerunner of modern suspension bridges, opened to traffic.

New York City held its first annual ball drop event in Times Square as part of New Year's Eve celebrations.

The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began with an engagement in which both sides would suffer their highest casualty rates in the American Civil War.

Queen Victoria announced the choice of Ottawa (pictured), then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada.

American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support.

Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum to the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin and began brewing Guinness.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 31st

Same Day Who's birthday is on December 31st?

Same year Born in 1479

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 31st

Pope Sylvester I (Catholic Church)

December 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

International Solidarity Day of Azerbaijanis (Azerbaijan)

First Night (United States)

Last Day of the Year or Bisperás ng Bagong Taón, special holiday between Rizal Day and New Year's Day (Philippines)

Novy God Eve (Russia)

Ōmisoka (Japan)

The first day of Hogmanay or "Auld Year's Night" (Scotland)

The seventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)

The sixth and penultimate day of Kwanzaa (United States)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

31.12.1479

Legend

Leap year

Calendar December 1479

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Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 198,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 31st

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 31st?

Same year
Born in 1479

Calendar
December 1479

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
49	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
50	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
51	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
52	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
53	29	30	31