December 21st, 1960

Born on December 21st, 1960

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 23,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 42 days, exactly on September 6th, 2026, people who were born on December 21st, 1960 will be 24,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 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, 1963

An attempt by Greek Cypriot police to search certain Turkish Cypriot women in Nicosia escalated into island-wide violence, leading to 538 deaths and the displacement of nearly 27,000 people.

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, the first film composition by Sergei Prokofiev (pictured), 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, 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.

December 21st, 1992

Martinair Flight 495 crashed on landing at Faro Airport due to a downburst, killing 56 out of the 340 people on board.

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

Born on December 21st, 1960

65

Loquillo

Spanish singer

*December 21st, 1960, Barcelona

65

Shuichi Abe

Governor of Nagano Prefecture

*December 21st, 1960, Kunitachi

65

Sherry Rehman

Pakistani politician and diplomat

*December 21st, 1960, Karachi

65

Andy Van Slyke

Former Major League Baseball player

*December 21st, 1960, Utica

Same year
Born in 1960

66

Vince Clarke

English synth-pop musician and songwriter

*July 3rd, 1960, South Woodford tube station

65

Sydney Youngblood

American/German singer

*December 2nd, 1960, San Antonio

32

Jón Páll Sigmarsson

Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder

*April 28th, 1960, Hafnarfjörður †January 16th, 1993, Reykjavík

66

Åse Michaelsen

Norwegian politician

*June 4th, 1960, Mandal Municipality

65

Sally Yates

American lawyer, 36th United States Deputy Attorney General

*August 20th, 1960, Atlanta

66

Naruhito

Emperor of Japan since 2019

*February 23rd, 1960, Hospital of the Imperial Household

65

David Duchovny

American actor and writer

*August 7th, 1960, New York City

66

Lene Kaaberbøl

Danish writer

*March 24th, 1960, Copenhagen

66

Pierre Littbarski

German association football player and manager

*April 16th, 1960, West Berlin

60

Diego Maradona

Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)

*October 30th, 1960, Lanús †November 25th, 2020, Dique Luján

66

Armin Reutershahn

German association football manager

*March 1st, 1960, Duisburg

65

Petrik Sander

German association football player and manager

*November 17th, 1960, Quedlinburg

66

John Leguizamo

American actor, comedian, producer, and writer

*July 22nd, 1960, Bogotá

65

Colin Firth

English actor and producer

*September 10th, 1960, Grayshott

66

Jane Lynch

American actress

*July 14th, 1960, Evergreen Park

65

Sarah Brightman

British singer and actress

*August 14th, 1960, Berkhamsted

66

Weert Canzler

German sociologist and political scientist

*April 30th, 1960, Hage

65

Julianne Moore

British-American actress and author

*December 3rd, 1960, Fort Liberty

65

Tilda Swinton

Scottish-British actress

*November 5th, 1960, London

65

Stanley Tucci

American actor

*November 11th, 1960, Peekskill

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

Born on December 21st, 1960
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1960 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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