December 24th, 1976

Born on December 24th, 1976

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 17,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 716 days, exactly on April 6th, 2026, people who were born on December 24th, 1976 will be 18,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on December 24th?

December 24th, 1918

Forces united in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes defeated Hungarian forces to end the occupation of Međimurje.

December 24th, 2021

Burmese military forces killed at least 40 civilians during the Mo So massacre in Kayah State, Myanmar.

December 24th, 2008

The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, began attacks on several villages in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing hundreds and committing numerous atrocities.

December 24th, 1999

Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 to force the release of Islamist figures held in prison in India.

December 24th, 1983

Aeroflot Flight 601 crashed on approach to Leshukonskoye in the Russian SSR, killing 44 out of 49 people on board.

December 24th, 1979

The Soviet government deployed troops in Afghanistan, starting the Soviet–Afghan War.

December 24th, 1973

The U.S. Congress granted home rule to Washington, D.C., allowing the residents to elect their own mayor and a city council.

December 24th, 1968

Piloted by Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 became the first human spaceflight to reach and orbit the Moon (Earthrise pictured).

December 24th, 1964

The Viet Cong bombed the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, killing two U.S. Army officers and raising fears of an escalation of the Vietnam War.

December 24th, 1955

According to legend, the NORAD Tracks Santa program began after children began calling the Continental Air Defense Command Center to inquire about Santa Claus's whereabouts due to a misprinted phone number in an advertisement.

December 24th, 1953

A railway bridge at Tangiwai on New Zealand's North Island was damaged by a lahar and collapsed beneath a passenger train (wreckage pictured), killing 151 people.

December 24th, 1914

World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted fighting to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce .

December 24th, 1913

Seventy-three people were crushed to death in a stampede after someone falsely yelled "fire" at a crowded Christmas party in Calumet, Michigan, U.S.

December 24th, 1871

Aida, one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, made its debut in Cairo, Egypt.

December 24th, 1865

Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded a social club they named the Ku Klux Klan, which later became a white supremacist group.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 24th

Born on December 24th, 1976

47

Florencia Abbate

Argentine writer, poet, and journalist

*December 24th, 1976, Buenos Aires

47

Iker Lastra

Spanish actor

*December 24th, 1976, Bilbao

47

Marion Rodewald

Field hockey player

*December 24th, 1976, Mülheim an der Ruhr

47

Florian Karlheim

German actor

*December 24th, 1976, Munich

47

Lynn Chen

American actress

*December 24th, 1976, Queens

47

Alfredo Toxqui

Mexican association football player

*December 24th, 1976, Puebla

47

Ángel Matos

Taekwondo practitioner

*December 24th, 1976, Holguín

47

Linda Ferga-Khodadin

French hurdler

*December 24th, 1976, Paris

47

Pepe Ocio

Spanish actor

*December 24th, 1976, Madrid

47

Vaughn Wilson

American actor

*December 24th, 1976, Wilmington

47

Serkan Altunorak

Turkish actor

*December 24th, 1976, Ankara

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 24th?

37

Hoon Thien How

Badminton player

*December 24th, 1986, Kuala Lumpur

57

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

30

Ririn Amelia

Badminton player

*December 24th, 1993, Padang

50

Stephenie Meyer

American author

*December 24th, 1973, Hartford

42

Dima Bilan

Russian actor and singer-songwriter

*December 24th, 1981, Ust-Dzheguta

69

Lorenz Caffier

German politician

*December 24th, 1954, Dresden

54

Mark Millar

British comic book writer

*December 24th, 1969, Coatbridge

46

Jason Read

American rower

*December 24th, 1977, Flemington

31

Dhurata Dora

Kosovo-Albanian singer and songwriter

*December 24th, 1992, Nuremberg

37

Ana Brenda Contreras

American-born Mexican actress and singer

*December 24th, 1986, McAllen

59

Mark Valley

American actor

*December 24th, 1964, Ogdensburg

49

Marcelo Salas

Chilean footballer

*December 24th, 1974, Temuco

34

Diafra Sakho

Senegalese and French association football player

*December 24th, 1989, Guédiawaye

49

Ryan Seacrest

American television host, radio host and television producer

*December 24th, 1974, Dunwoody

36

Jane Summersett

American ice dancer

*December 24th, 1987, Marquette

90

Witold Pyrkosz

Polish actor (1926-2017)

*December 24th, 1926, Krasnystaw †April 22nd, 2017, Warsaw

48

Keith Loach

Canadian skeleton racer

*December 24th, 1975, Calgary

74

Willi Reimann

German association football player and manager

*December 24th, 1949, Fürstenau

66

Hamid Karzai

President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014

*December 24th, 1957, Karz

62

Ilham Aliyev

President of Azerbaijan since 2003

*December 24th, 1961, Baku

Same year
Born in 1976

47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

47

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

47

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

47

Halim Haryanto

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1976, Bandung City

47

Ellen Angelina

Indonesian badminton player

*June 30th, 1976, Salatiga City

48

Chantal Botts

Badminton player

*March 30th, 1976, Witbank

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

47

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

47

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

47

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

47

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

47

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

*May 31st, 1976, Dublin

47

Wang Chen

Hong Kong badminton player

*June 21st, 1976, Shanghai

47

Hidetaka Yamada

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1976, Kobe

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Born on December 24th, 1976
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Leap year

Yes: 1976 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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