December 31st, 1976

Born on December 31st, 1976

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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, 1976

47

Kader Ayd

French actor and film director

*December 31st, 1976, Nanterre

47

Matthew Hoggard

English cricketer

*December 31st, 1976, Pudsey

47

Ceza

Turkish rapper

*December 31st, 1976, Üsküdar

47

Chris Terrio

American film director

*December 31st, 1976, Staten Island

47

Ibrahima Bakayoko

Ivorian and French footballer

*December 31st, 1976, Séguéla

35

Luis Carreira

Portuguese motorcycle racer

*December 31st, 1976, Lisbon †November 15th, 2012, Macau

47

Kerissa Fare

American actor and playmate

*December 31st, 1976, Orange County

47

Paul Keenan

British musician

*December 31st, 1976, Scotland

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Who's birthday is on December 31st?

49

Bas Böttcher

German writer and poetry slam performer

*December 31st, 1974, Bremen

78

Vernon Wells

Australian actor

*December 31st, 1945, Rushworth

31

Manu Attri

Badminton player

*December 31st, 1992, Meerut

46

Psy

South Korean singer (born 1977)

*December 31st, 1977, Gangnam District

46

Donald Trump Jr.

American businessman and reality television personality

*December 31st, 1977, Manhattan

57

Rudy Gunawan

Badminton player

*December 31st, 1966, Surakarta City

45

Johnny Sins

American pornographic actor

*December 31st, 1978, Pittsburgh

51

Grégory Coupet

French association football player

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

44

Steve Byers

Canadian actor

*December 31st, 1979, Scarborough

86

Anthony Hopkins

Welsh actor and director (born 1937)

*December 31st, 1937, Port Talbot

38

Jan Smit

Dutch singer and TV presenter

*December 31st, 1985, Volendam

84

Henri Matisse

French artist (1869–1954)

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

65

Bebe Neuwirth

American actress

*December 31st, 1958, Newark

70

James Remar

American actor

*December 31st, 1953, Boston

67

Vaughan Jones

New Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist

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

49

Veronique Cloutier

Canadian television and radio personality

*December 31st, 1974, Laval

58

Gong Li

Chinese-Singaporean actress

*December 31st, 1965, Shenyang

48

Mikko Sirén

Finnish musician

*December 31st, 1975, Helsinki

46

Marta Hazas

Spanish actress and model

*December 31st, 1977, England

49

Cândido Barbosa

Portuguese cyclist

*December 31st, 1974, Rebordosa

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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

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 31st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, New Year's Eve) which are celebrated on December 31st.

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Born on December 31st, 1976
Future birthdays

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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