December 21st, 1988

Born on December 21st, 1988

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 12,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 90 days, exactly on July 25th, 2024, people who were born on December 21st, 1988 will be 13,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on December 21st, 1988?

December 21st, 1988

The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

December 21st, 1988

A bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 detonated over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

What else 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, 1995

In accordance with the Oslo II Accord, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem in preparation for the transfer of control to the Palestinian National Authority.

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, 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, 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, one of Sergei Prokofiev's best-known works, 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, 1919

After serving two years in prison for encouraging people to resist military conscription, anarchist Emma Goldman was deported from the United States to Russia.

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.

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

Born on December 21st, 1988

35

Andreas Rambøl

Danish rower

*December 21st, 1988, Odense

35

Perri Shakes-Drayton

British hurdler

*December 21st, 1988, London

35

Danny Duffy

American baseball player

*December 21st, 1988, Goleta

35

Teresa Ruiz

Mexican actress

*December 21st, 1988, Santiago Matatlán Municipality

35

Takuya Matsuura

Japanese association football player

*December 21st, 1988, Hamamatsu

35

Mohammed Al-Siyabi

Omani Footballer

*December 21st, 1988, Barka

35

Anastasios Christofileas

Greek footballer

*December 21st, 1988, Athens

35

Markeith Cummings

American basketball player

*December 21st, 1988, Birmingham

35

Kevin Anderson

American basketball player

*December 21st, 1988, Atlanta

35

Alexa Goddard

British R&B singer

*December 21st, 1988, Hampshire

35

Shelley Regner

Actress and singer

*December 21st, 1988, Baton Rouge

35

Arielle Tuliao

Canadian actress

*December 21st, 1988, Vancouver

35

Zoe Buckman

Australian female athletics competitor

*December 21st, 1988, Grafton

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 21st?

36

Khris Davis

Baseball player from the United States

*December 21st, 1987, Lakewood

46

Emmanuel Macron

President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017

*December 21st, 1977, Amiens

54

Magnus Samuelsson

Swedish strongman

*December 21st, 1969, Kisa

57

Kiefer Sutherland

British-Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

34

Tamannaah Bhatia

Indian actress (born 1989)

*December 21st, 1989, Mumbai

84

Ove Sprogøe

Danish actor (1919-2004)

*December 21st, 1919, Odense †September 14th, 2004, Tårnby

37

Per Fredrik Åsly

Norwegian singer

*December 21st, 1986, Sandefjord Municipality

22

Linda Mazri

Badminton player

*December 21st, 2001, El Biar

83

Marta Linz

Hungarian violinist, composer, conductor

*December 21st, 1898, Budapest †January 11th, 1982, Berlin

48

Charles Michel

Belgian politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European Council

*December 21st, 1975, Namur

56

Mikheil Saakashvili

Georgian-Ukrainian politician, former President of Georgia and former Governor of Odesa

*December 21st, 1967, Tbilisi

86

Jane Fonda

American actress and activist

*December 21st, 1937, New York City

57

William Ruto

President of Kenya since 2022

*December 21st, 1966, Kamagut

75

Jared Martin

American actor (1941-2017)

*December 21st, 1941, Queens †May 24th, 2017, Philadelphia

34

Cheikhou Kouyaté

Senegalese association football player

*December 21st, 1989, Dakar

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

38

Tom Sturridge

English actor (born 1985)

*December 21st, 1985, Lambeth

45

Alexander Wolf

German biathlete

*December 21st, 1978, Schmalkalden

49

Karrie Webb

Australian golfer

*December 21st, 1974, Ayr

54

Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt

German architect and architectural historian

*December 21st, 1963, Freiburg im Breisgau †June 13th, 2018, Athens

Same year
Born in 1988

35

Adele

British singer

*May 5th, 1988, Tottenham

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

35

Mizuki Fujii

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1988, Ashikita

35

Ma Jin

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

36

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

36

Chan Yun Lung

Badminton player

*February 29th, 1988, Hong Kong

35

Gzuz

German rapper

*June 29th, 1988, Hamburg

36

KC Rebell

German rapper

*January 26th, 1988, Pazarcık

36

Christian Meaas Svendsen

Norwegian musician

*February 26th, 1988, Kongsberg Municipality

35

Jérôme Boateng

German association football player

*September 3rd, 1988, West Berlin

35

Pramod Bhagat

Indian para-badminton player

*June 4th, 1988, Attabira

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

35

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

Danish actress

*May 23rd, 1988, Copenhagen

35

Monika Lewczuk

Polish singer-songwriter and former model

*June 10th, 1988, Łomża

36

Gabi Tóth

Hungarian singer

*January 17th, 1988, Tapolca

35

Friðrik Dór

Icelandic singer

*October 7th, 1988, Hafnarfjörður

36

Marcel Schmelzer

German footballer

*January 22nd, 1988, Magdeburg

35

Lyna bonasera

Belgian actress

*May 17th, 1988, West Los Angeles

35

Savitree Amitrapai

Badminton player

*November 19th, 1988, Bangkok

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, 1988
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1988 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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