December 31st, 1959

Born on December 31st, 1959

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on December 31st?

December 31st, 1950

Korean War: North Korean troops attacked United Nations forces in the first of two battles at Wonju.

December 31st, 2010

28 tornadoes (one depicted) touched down in midwestern and southern United States, part of an outbreak that led to the deaths of nine people and large property damage.

December 31st, 1999

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin became acting president upon President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation.

December 31st, 1998

The European Exchange Rate Mechanism froze the exchange rates of the legacy currencies in the eurozone, establishing the value of the euro.

December 31st, 1993

Brandon Teena, an American trans man, was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska; his death led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States.

December 31st, 1986

Three disgruntled employees set fire to the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing more than 90 people and injuring 140 others, making it the second-deadliest hotel fire in United States history.

December 31st, 1972

Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to victims of that year's Nicaragua earthquake.

December 31st, 1965

Central African military officers led by Jean-Bédel Bokassa began a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.

December 31st, 1961

RTÉ, Ireland's first television network, began broadcasting.

December 31st, 1909

The Manhattan Bridge, connecting Lower Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn and considered to be the forerunner of modern suspension bridges, opened to traffic.

December 31st, 1907

New York City held its first annual ball drop event in Times Square as part of New Year's Eve celebrations.

December 31st, 1862

The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began with an engagement in which both sides would suffer their highest casualty rates in the American Civil War.

December 31st, 1857

Queen Victoria announced the choice of Ottawa (pictured), then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada.

December 31st, 1775

American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support.

December 31st, 1759

Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum to the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin and began brewing Guinness.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 31st

Born on December 31st, 1959

64

Val Kilmer

American actor (born 1959)

*December 31st, 1959, Los Angeles

64

Baron Waqa

Nauruan politician

*December 31st, 1959, Boe District

64

Ronnie del Carmen

Filipino animator

*December 31st, 1959, Philippines

64

Konstanze Breitebner

Austrian actress

*December 31st, 1959, Vienna

64

Paul Westerberg

American musician

*December 31st, 1959, Minneapolis

64

Geri Reischl

Actress, singer

*December 31st, 1959, Bellflower

64

Kodjovi Mawuéna

Football player and manager

*December 31st, 1959, Tsévié

64

Phill Kline

American politician

*December 31st, 1959, Kansas City

64

Liveris Andritsos

Basketball player

*December 31st, 1959, Athens

64

Mio Takaki

Japanese actress and singer

*December 31st, 1959, Fukuoka

64

Rachel Chan

Argentine scientist

*December 31st, 1959, Buenos Aires

64

Paul Roberts

British singer

*December 31st, 1959, London

50

Peta Rutter

New Zealand actress

*December 31st, 1959, New Zealand †July 20th, 2010, Sydney

55

Cornell Moss

Bishop of Guyana; Barbadian-born Anglican bishop (1959-2015)

*December 31st, 1959, Nassau †May 30th, 2015, Miami

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 31st?

78

Vernon Wells

Australian actor

*December 31st, 1945, Rushworth

65

Bebe Neuwirth

American actress

*December 31st, 1958, Newark

57

Rudy Gunawan

Badminton player

*December 31st, 1966, Surakarta City

31

Manu Attri

Badminton player

*December 31st, 1992, Meerut

49

Bas Böttcher

German writer and poetry slam performer

*December 31st, 1974, Bremen

70

James Remar

American actor

*December 31st, 1953, Boston

86

Anthony Hopkins

Welsh actor and director (born 1937)

*December 31st, 1937, Port Talbot

67

Vaughan Jones

New Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist

*December 31st, 1952, Gisborne †September 6th, 2020, Nashville

69

Christine Scheiblich

East German rower

*December 31st, 1954, Wilsdruff

84

Henri Matisse

French artist (1869–1954)

*December 31st, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis †November 3rd, 1954, Nice

51

Grégory Coupet

French association football player

*December 31st, 1972, Le Puy-en-Velay

63

Steve Bruce

English football player and manager (born 1960)

*December 31st, 1960, Corbridge

58

Gong Li

Chinese-Singaporean actress

*December 31st, 1965, Shenyang

69

Alex Salmond

First minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014

*December 31st, 1954, Linlithgow

80

Ben Kingsley

English actor

*December 31st, 1943, Snainton

88

Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

King of Saudi Arabia since 2015

*December 31st, 1935, Riyadh

82

Alex Ferguson

Scottish association football manager and player (born 1941)

*December 31st, 1941, Govan

63

Donna Summer

American singer

*December 31st, 1948, Boston †May 17th, 2012, Naples

49

Mario Aerts

Belgian cyclist

*December 31st, 1974, Herentals

38

Jan Smit

Dutch singer and TV presenter

*December 31st, 1985, Volendam

Same year
Born in 1959

64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

64

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

64

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

65

Luc Besson

French film director, writer, and producer

*March 18th, 1959, Paris

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

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Born on December 31st, 1959
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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