December 21st, 1898

Born on December 21st, 1898

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 45,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 74 days, exactly on November 30th, 2024, people who were born on December 21st, 1898 will be 46,000 days old!

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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, 1898

83

Marta Linz

Hungarian violinist, composer, conductor

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

88

Helmut Stellrecht

German politician and author (1898-1987)

*December 21st, 1898, Wangen im Allgäu †June 23rd, 1987, Bad Boll

110

Romanie Pollet

Centenarian

*December 21st, 1898, Gistel †October 17th, 2009, Brussels-Capital Region

59

Paul Bernard

French actor

*December 21st, 1898, Villeneuve-sur-Lot †May 4th, 1958, Paris

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84

Ove Sprogøe

Danish actor (1919-2004)

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

74

Claire Préaux

Belgican classical scholar (1904-1979)

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

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

Canadian actor

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

86

Jane Fonda

American actress and activist

*December 21st, 1937, New York City

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

67

Heinrich Böll

German writer (1917–1985)

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

56

Mikheil Saakashvili

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

*December 21st, 1967, Tbilisi

36

Khris Davis

Baseball player from the United States

*December 21st, 1987, Lakewood

88

Kurt Waldheim

Austrian politician and diplomat (1918-2007)

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

75

Samuel L. Jackson

American actor (born 1948)

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

81

John G. Avildsen

American film director

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

22

Linda Mazri

Badminton player

*December 21st, 2001, El Biar

79

Michael Tilson Thomas

American conductor, pianist and composer

*December 21st, 1944, Los Angeles

48

Charles Michel

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

*December 21st, 1975, Namur

52

Frank Zappa

American musician (1940–1993)

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

71

Dennis Boutsikaris

American actor

*December 21st, 1952, Newark

76

Rolf Sagen

Norwegian writer (1940-2017)

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

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72

Johannes S. Andersen

Norwegian criminal, businessman and resistance fighter during the Second World War

*July 9th, 1898, Oslo †July 29th, 1970, Horten

78

Franz Altheim

German historian (1898-1976)

*October 6th, 1898, Frankfurt †October 17th, 1976, Münster

77

Ernst Meyer

German historian of classical antiquity (1898-1975)

*February 21st, 1898, Pinneberg †November 18th, 1975, Zürich

50

Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)

*January 10th, 1898, Riga †February 11th, 1948, Moscow

58

Bertolt Brecht

German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

*February 10th, 1898, Augsburg †August 14th, 1956, East Berlin

38

Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898–1936)

*June 5th, 1898, Fuente Vaqueros †July 31st, 1936, Víznar

94

Shirley Booth

American actress (1898–1992)

*August 30th, 1898, Brooklyn †October 16th, 1992, Chatham

78

Alvar Aalto

Finnish architect and designer (1898–1976)

*February 3rd, 1898, Kuortane †May 11th, 1976, Helsinki

80

Golda Meir

Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974

*April 21st, 1898, Ukraine †December 8th, 1978, Jerusalem

77

Paul Robeson

American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)

*April 9th, 1898, Princeton †January 23rd, 1976, Philadelphia

91

Alfred Sauvy

Demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy

*October 31st, 1898, Villeneuve-de-la-Raho †October 30th, 1990, Paris

89

Giuseppe Saragat

5th President of Italy (1898-1988)

*September 19th, 1898, Turin †June 11th, 1988, Rome

42

Agnes Ayres

American actress (1892–1940)

*April 4th, 1898, Carbondale †December 25th, 1940, Los Angeles

38

George Gershwin

American composer and pianist (1898–1937)

*September 26th, 1898, Brooklyn †July 11th, 1937, Hollywood

82

Lucy Morton

British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist (1898-1980)

*February 23rd, 1898, Knutsford †August 26th, 1980, Blackpool Victoria Hospital

72

Theodor Lohrmann

German association football player

*September 7th, 1898, Heidelberg †September 4th, 1971

44

Stephen Vincent Benét

American poet, short story writer, novelist

*July 22nd, 1898, Bethlehem †March 13th, 1943, New York City

71

Helene Wessel

German politician (1898-1969)

*July 6th, 1898, Hörde †October 13th, 1969, Bonn

81

Herbert Marcuse

German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)

*July 19th, 1898, Berlin †July 29th, 1979, Starnberg

70

Marianne von Angern

German author

*August 24th, 1898, Sopron †January 1st, 1969, Aachen

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 1898 is a normal year and no leap year.

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