December 19th, 1956

Born on December 19th, 1956

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on December 19th, 1956?

December 19th, 1956

Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams

December 19th, 1956

British physician and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams was arrested in connection with the death of Edith Alice Morrell.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams

What else happened on December 19th?

December 19th, 2022

Argentina won the 2022 World Cup.

December 19th, 2016

Andrei Karlov (pictured), Russia's ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated at an art gallery in Ankara.

December 19th, 2013

The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue ever made.

December 19th, 1997

SilkAir Flight 185 crashed into the Musi River in Indonesia, killing 104 people.

December 19th, 1985

Aeroflot Flight 101/435 was hijacked by the co-pilot and landed in a cow pasture in China, where he was apprehended.

December 19th, 1984

China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997.

December 19th, 1983

The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the FIFA World Cup, was stolen from the offices of the Brazilian Football Confederation.

December 19th, 1964

The ruling junta of South Vietnam, led by Nguyễn Khánh, initiated a coup, dissolving the High National Council, a civilian advisory body.

December 19th, 1843

A Christmas Carol (illustration pictured), a novella by Charles Dickens about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after being visited by ghosts, was published.

December 19th, 1776

Thomas Paine published the first in a series of pamphlets entitled The American Crisis, opening with the line: "These are the times that try men's souls."

December 19th, 1675

King Philip's War: In the Great Swamp Fight, the colonial militia of New England and their Pequot allies attacked a Narragansett fort in Rhode Island, killing many warriors and hundreds of non-combatants.

December 19th, 1154

Henry II was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey, London.

December 19th, 2016

A vehicular attack in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people at a Christmas market.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 19th

Born on December 19th, 1956

67

Jens Fink-Jensen

Danish writer

*December 19th, 1956, Copenhagen

67

Masami Akita

Japanese noise musician and writer (1956-)

*December 19th, 1956, Tokyo

67

Raymond Anthony Thomas

Actor

*December 19th, 1956, Kentwood

53

Phil Harris

American nautical captain (1956-2010)

*December 19th, 1956, Bothell †February 9th, 2010, Anchorage

67

Tom Lawless

American baseball player

*December 19th, 1956, Erie

56

Shane McEntee

Irish politician (1956-2012)

*December 19th, 1956, Nobber †December 21st, 2012

67

Gilla Cremer

German actress

*December 19th, 1956, Königswinter

67

Alice Barrett

American actress

*December 19th, 1956, New York City

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 19th?

69

Heinz Sichrovsky

Austrian journalist and writer

*December 19th, 1954, Vienna

60

Terry Gray

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1963, Auckland

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

60

Til Schweiger

German actor

*December 19th, 1963, Freiburg im Breisgau

79

Arne Lindtner Næss

Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter

*December 19th, 1944, Bergen

47

Édith Piaf

French singer (1915–1963)

*December 19th, 1915, Paris †October 10th, 1963, Grasse

36

Karim Benzema

French and Algerian footballer (born 1987)

*December 19th, 1987, Lyon

62

Eric Allin Cornell

American physicist, professor

*December 19th, 1961, Palo Alto

57

Alberto Tomba

Italian alpine ski racer

*December 19th, 1966, Province of Bologna

58

Gary Fleder

American film director

*December 19th, 1965, Norfolk

29

Jonathan Dolan

Irish badminton player

*December 19th, 1994, Sligo

69

Oswald Metzger

German politician

*December 19th, 1954, Grabs

22

Alonso Medel

Badminton player

*December 19th, 2001, Antofagasta

66

Kevin McHale

American basketball player

*December 19th, 1957, Hibbing

96

Cicely Tyson

American actress (1924–2021)

*December 19th, 1924, Harlem †January 28th, 2021, New York City

75

Leonid Brezhnev

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

*December 19th, 1906, Kamyanske †November 10th, 1982, Zareche

68

Rob Portman

American lawyer and politician (born 1955)

*December 19th, 1955, Cincinnati

35

Alexis Sánchez

Chilean association football player

*December 19th, 1988, Tocopilla

89

Pratibha Patil

President of India from 2007 to 2012

*December 19th, 1934, Nadgaon

82

Lee Myung-bak

President of South Korea from 2008 to 2013

*December 19th, 1941, Osaka

Same year
Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Han Jian

Chinese badminton player

*July 6th, 1956, Liaoning

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Leap year

Yes: 1956 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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