The 335th day of the year, the 336th in a leap year
Born on 1 December
Every 1 December birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Turquoise, Zircon, TanzaniteThe 1912 list gave Turquoise and Lapis lazuli.
- Birth flower
- Narcissus, HollyUsually taken today to mean good wishes and defence.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 1 December in any year.
Which weekday 1 December falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 1 December falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 1 December is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,757 babies were born on 1 December in each year of the twenty, making it the 339th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 1 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pablo Escobar | 1949–1993 | Colombian politician and drug lord |
| Georgy Zhukov | 1896–1974 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
| Nikolai Lobachevsky | 1792–1856 | Russian mathematician |
| Sebastián Piñera | 1949–2024 | Chilean entrepreneur and politician |
| Bette Midler | 1945– | American singer and actress |
| Anna Komnene | 1083–1153 | Byzantine princess and historian |
| Salvatore Schillaci | 1964–2024 | Italian association football player |
| Louis VI of France | 1081–1137 | king of the Franks from 1108 to 1137 |
| Alexandra of Denmark | 1844–1925 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910 |
| Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga | 1937– | President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007 |
| Marie Tussaud | 1761–1850 | French artist |
| Zoë Kravitz | 1988– | American actress, director, singer and model |
| Richard Pryor | 1940–2005 | American comedian and actor |
| Javier Aguirre | 1958– | Mexican association football player and manager |
| Zhu De | 1886–1976 | Marshal of the People's Republic of China |
| Sarah Silverman | 1970– | American comedian, actress, and writer |
| Brad Delson | 1977– | American guitarist and rock musician |
| Janelle Monáe | 1985– | American singer and actress |
Died on 1 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| David Ben-Gurion | 1886–1973 | Prime Minister of Israel from 1948 to 1953 and from 1955 to 1963 |
| Alexander I of Russia | 1777–1825 | Emperor of Russia from 1801 to 1825 |
| Pope Leo X | 1475–1521 | pope from 1513 to 1521 |
| G. H. Hardy | 1877–1947 | British mathematician |
| Henry I of England | 1068–1135 | King of England from 1100 to 1135 |
| James Baldwin | 1924–1987 | American writer |
| Aleister Crowley | 1875–1947 | English occultist |
| Sergei Kirov | 1886–1934 | Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary |
| Christa Wolf | 1929–2011 | German novelist and essayist |
| J. B. S. Haldane | 1892–1964 | Geneticist and evolutionary biologist |
| George Stigler | 1911–1991 | American economist |
| Claude Jade | 1948–2006 | French actress |
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