December 21st, 1937

Born on December 21st, 1937

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 462 days, exactly on August 1st, 2025, people who were born on December 21st, 1937 will be 32,000 days old!

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What happened on December 21st, 1937?

December 21st, 1937

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)

What else 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, 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.

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

Born on December 21st, 1937

86

Jane Fonda

American actress and activist

*December 21st, 1937, New York City

86

David Levy

Israeli politician

*December 21st, 1937, Rabat

78

Lucy Baxley

Alabama politician (1937-2016)

*December 21st, 1937, Houston County †October 14th, 2016, Birmingham

83

Czesława Stopka

Polish cross-country skier (1937-2021)

*December 21st, 1937, Zakopane †March 5th, 2021

73

Salvador Rocha Díaz

Mexican politician (1937-2011)

*December 21st, 1937, San Miguel de Allende †July 17th, 2011, Mexico City

81

Lawrence Roberts

American computer scientist

*December 21st, 1937, Westport †December 26th, 2018, Redwood City

86

Sheila Reid

British actress

*December 21st, 1937, Glasgow

86

Gail Lumet Buckley

American author

*December 21st, 1937, Pittsburgh

79

Maurice Nivat

French computer scientist

*December 21st, 1937, Clermont-Ferrand †September 21st, 2017, Sevran

77

Klaus Baumgartner

Swiss politician (1937-2015)

*December 21st, 1937, Herzogenbuchsee †December 10th, 2015

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Who's birthday is on December 21st?

84

Ove Sprogøe

Danish actor (1919-2004)

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

75

Jared Martin

American actor (1941-2017)

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

81

John G. Avildsen

American film director

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

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

46

Emmanuel Macron

President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017

*December 21st, 1977, Amiens

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

52

Frank Zappa

American musician (1940–1993)

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

76

Rolf Sagen

Norwegian writer (1940-2017)

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

79

Michael Tilson Thomas

American conductor, pianist and composer

*December 21st, 1944, Los Angeles

85

Larry Bryggman

American actor (b. 1938)

*December 21st, 1938, Concord

75

Samuel L. Jackson

American actor (born 1948)

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

81

Jidéhem

Belgian comics artist (1935-2017)

*December 21st, 1935, Belgium †April 30th, 2017, Brussels metropolitan area

74

Claire Préaux

Belgican classical scholar (1904-1979)

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

56

Mikheil Saakashvili

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

*December 21st, 1967, Tbilisi

71

Dennis Boutsikaris

American actor

*December 21st, 1952, Newark

36

Khris Davis

Baseball player from the United States

*December 21st, 1987, Lakewood

84

David Baker

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

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

57

William Ruto

President of Kenya since 2022

*December 21st, 1966, Kamagut

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Born in 1937

87

Olusegun Obasanjo

Nigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79)

*March 5th, 1937, Abeokuta

87

Heinz Rennhack

German actor

*March 5th, 1937, Gdańsk

82

Sigmund Jähn

East German cosmonaut

*February 13th, 1937, Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz †September 21st, 2019, Strausberg

80

Erland Kops

Danish badminton player

*January 14th, 1937, Copenhagen †February 18th, 2017

86

Bobby Charlton

English association football player and manager (1937–2023)

*October 11th, 1937, Ashington †October 21st, 2023, Macclesfield District General Hospital

79

George Steele

American professional wrestler and actor (1937-2017)

*April 16th, 1937, Detroit †February 16th, 2017, Cocoa Beach

86

Morgan Freeman

American actor, director, and narrator (born 1937)

*June 1st, 1937, Memphis

87

Rita Süssmuth

German politician

*February 17th, 1937, Wuppertal

80

Attilio Nicora

Catholic cardinal

*March 16th, 1937, Varese †April 22nd, 2017, Rome

86

Anthony Hopkins

Welsh actor and director (born 1937)

*December 31st, 1937, Port Talbot

87

Paul Zanker

German classical archaeologist (born 1937)

*February 7th, 1937, Constance

79

Johannes Grützke

German painter and illustrator (1937-2017)

*September 30th, 1937, Berlin †May 17th, 2017, Berlin

69

Saddam Hussein

Iraqi president, army officer and Baathist politician

*April 28th, 1937, Al-Awja †December 30th, 2006, Kadhimiya

86

Dustin Hoffman

American actor (born 1937)

*August 8th, 1937, Los Angeles

85

Larry Hillman

Canadian ice hockey player

*February 5th, 1937, Kirkland Lake †June 3rd, 2022

79

Richard H. Solomon

American diplomat

*June 19th, 1937, Philadelphia †March 13th, 2017, Bethesda

86

Martti Ahtisaari

President of Finland from 1994 to 2000

*June 23rd, 1937, Vyborg †October 16th, 2023, Helsinki

79

Alberto Carneiro

Portuguese artist

*September 20th, 1937, São Mamede de Coronado †April 15th, 2017, Porto

87

Warren Beatty

American actor and filmmaker

*March 30th, 1937, Richmond

87

Wolfram Hoepfner

German architectural historian

*March 16th, 1937, Wrocław

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.

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Born on December 21st, 1937
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1937 is a normal year and no leap year.

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