December 21st, 1854

Born on December 21st, 1854

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 61,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 154 days, exactly on September 20th, 2024, people who were born on December 21st, 1854 will be 62,000 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

Born on December 21st, 1854

67

Hason Raja

Bangladeshi poet

*December 21st, 1854, Rampasha Union †December 6th, 1922

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83

Marta Linz

Hungarian violinist, composer, conductor

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

84

Ove Sprogøe

Danish actor (1919-2004)

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

46

Emmanuel Macron

President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017

*December 21st, 1977, Amiens

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

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

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

36

Khris Davis

Baseball player from the United States

*December 21st, 1987, Lakewood

90

Isolde Kurz

German poet

*December 21st, 1853, Stuttgart †April 5th, 1944, Tübingen

56

Mikheil Saakashvili

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

*December 21st, 1967, Tbilisi

22

Linda Mazri

Badminton player

*December 21st, 2001, El Biar

75

Samuel L. Jackson

American actor (born 1948)

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

73

Mily Balakirev

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

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

48

Charles Michel

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

*December 21st, 1975, Namur

81

John G. Avildsen

American film director

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

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

67

Heinrich Böll

German writer (1917–1985)

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

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Born in 1854

61

Paul Ehrlich

German physician and scientist

*March 14th, 1854, Strzelin †August 20th, 1915, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

46

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900)

*October 16th, 1854, Dublin †November 30th, 1900, Paris

82

Adolf Erman

German Egyptologist and lexicographer (1854-1937)

*October 31st, 1854, Berlin †June 26th, 1937, Berlin

58

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

*April 29th, 1854, Nancy †July 17th, 1912, Paris

86

Paul Sabatier

French chemist

*November 5th, 1854, Carcassonne †August 14th, 1941, Toulouse

67

Benedict XV

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922

*November 21st, 1854, Pegli †January 22nd, 1922, Apostolic Palace

63

Emil von Behring

German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin

*March 15th, 1854, Ławice †March 31st, 1917, Marburg

37

Arthur Rimbaud

French poet (1854–1891)

*October 20th, 1854, Charleville (Ardennes) †November 10th, 1891, Marseille

78

Helen Nicol

Suffragist, temperance campaigner

*May 29th, 1854, Edinburgh †November 22nd, 1932, Dunedin

54

Francis Marion Crawford

Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)

*August 2nd, 1854, Bagni di Lucca †April 9th, 1909, Campania

76

George Whitefield Chadwick

American composer (1854-1931)

*November 13th, 1854, Lowell †April 4th, 1931, Boston

83

William C. White

American Seventh-day Adventist minister (1854–1937)

*August 29th, 1854, Rochester †September 1st, 1937, St. Helena

85

Gabriel Deville

French politician and diplomat (1854-1940)

*March 8th, 1854, Tarbes †February 28th, 1940, Viroflay

89

Henri La Fontaine

Belgian lawyer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1854-1943)

*April 22nd, 1854, City of Brussels †May 14th, 1943, City of Brussels

73

Émile Basly

French trade unionist

*March 29th, 1854, Valenciennes †February 11th, 1928, Lens

86

Louis Marie Cordonnier

French architect

*July 7th, 1854, Haubourdin †November 20th, 1940, Peyrillac-et-Millac

52

Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom

Dutch chemist

*October 24th, 1854, Alkmaar †February 2nd, 1907, Amsterdam

84

Karl Kautsky

Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist (1854–1938)

*October 16th, 1854, Prague †October 17th, 1938, Amsterdam

51

Alphonse Allais

French writer and humorist

*October 20th, 1854, Honfleur †October 28th, 1905, Paris

71

Thomas Riley Marshall

Vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921

*March 14th, 1854, North Manchester †June 1st, 1925, Washington, D.C.

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

No: With 365 days 1854 is a normal year and no leap year.

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