December 14th, 1953

Born on December 14th, 1953

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on December 14th?

December 14th, 2012

A 20-year-old gunman shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

December 14th, 2009

The tino rangatiratanga flag, representing the Māori people, was officially recognized by the government of New Zealand.

December 14th, 2008

During a press conference in Baghdad, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush and Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, yelling "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq".

December 14th, 1999

Torrential rains caused flash floods in the Venezuelan state of Vargas, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

December 14th, 1998

Kosovo War: Yugoslav forces ambushed a group of Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle weapons into Yugoslavia from Albania.

December 14th, 1992

War in Abkhazia: A helicopter carrying evacuees was shot down during the siege of Tkvarcheli, resulting in at least 52 deaths and catalysing more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.

December 14th, 1981

The Knesset passed the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli "laws, jurisdiction and administration" to the Golan Heights, effectively annexing the territory internationally recognized as part of Syria.

December 14th, 1972

Upon completing the third extra-vehicular activity of Apollo 17, American astronaut Gene Cernan became the last person to date to walk on the Moon.

December 14th, 1963

The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir in Los Angeles failed, releasing a flood that killed five people and destroyed 277 homes.

December 14th, 1962

NASA's Mariner 2 became the world's first spacecraft to successfully conduct a planetary encounter when it flew by Venus.

December 14th, 1960

Australian cricketer Ian Meckiff was run out on the last day of the first Test match between Australia and the West Indies, resulting in the first tied Test in cricket history.

December 14th, 1948

American physicists Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann were awarded a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the first interactive electronic game.

December 14th, 1918

Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

December 14th, 1913

Haruna (pictured), the fourth and last Japanese battlecruiser of the Kongō class, was launched and went on to serve in both world wars.

December 14th, 1911

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first people to reach the South Pole.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 14th

Born on December 14th, 1953

70

Wade Davis

Canadian anthropologist

*December 14th, 1953, West Vancouver

70

Vijay Amritraj

Indian tennis player

*December 14th, 1953, Chennai

70

Mikael Odenberg

Swedish politician

*December 14th, 1953, Stockholm

70

René Eespere

Estonian composer

*December 14th, 1953, Tallinn

70

Vangelis Meimarakis

Greek politician

*December 14th, 1953, Athens

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Who's birthday is on December 14th?

39

Molly Nilsson

Swedish record producer, keyboardist and singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1984, Stockholm

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

58

Karin Beier

German theatre director

*December 14th, 1965, Cologne

68

Roland Brückner

East German gymnast

*December 14th, 1955, Köthen

61

Ginger Lynn

American pornographic actress

*December 14th, 1962, Rockford

69

Patty Duke

American actress (1946–2016)

*December 14th, 1946, Queens †March 29th, 2016, Coeur d'Alene

76

Ruth Fuchs

German politician and athlete, Olympic champion

*December 14th, 1946, Egeln †September 20th, 2023, Jena

95

Aníbal Abreu

Venezuelan composer

*December 14th, 1928, Caracas

72

Celia Weston

American actress (1951-)

*December 14th, 1951, Spartanburg

75

Paul Herrmann

German classical archaeologist

*December 14th, 1859, Halle (Saale) †August 30th, 1935, Dresden

76

Jane Birkin

British-French actress and singer (1946–2023)

*December 14th, 1946, London †July 16th, 2023, 6th arrondissement of Paris

59

Noémie Lvovsky

French film director, screenwriter, and actress

*December 14th, 1964, Paris

51

Miranda Hart

English comedian

*December 14th, 1972, Torquay

55

Lee Remick

American actress (1935-1991)

*December 14th, 1935, Quincy †July 2nd, 1991, Brentwood

36

Hervé Guibert

French writer, photographer and journalist (1955-1991)

*December 14th, 1955, Saint-Cloud †December 27th, 1991, Clamart

53

Anna Maria Jopek

Polish musician and singer

*December 14th, 1970, Warsaw

60

Alice Ripley

American actress, singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1963, San Leandro

63

Ebrahim Raisi

8th President of Iran since 2021

*December 14th, 1960, Mashhad

79

Juan Diego

Spanish actor

*December 14th, 1942, Bormujos †April 28th, 2022, Madrid

69

Eva Mattes

German-Austrian actress

*December 14th, 1954, Tegernsee

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Born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*January 1st, 1953, Duisburg

70

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

70

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

70

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

70

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

70

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

70

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Dominique de Villepin

95th Prime Minister of France

*November 14th, 1953, Khemisset

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

70

Tom Barrett

Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1953–)

*December 8th, 1953, Milwaukee

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