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.
Where the sun stands on 1 December. The marked arc is every position it has held on 1 December, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

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

18 people born on 1 December, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Pablo Escobar1949–1993Colombian politician and drug lord
Georgy Zhukov1896–1974Marshal of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Lobachevsky1792–1856Russian mathematician
Sebastián Piñera1949–2024Chilean entrepreneur and politician
Bette Midler1945–American singer and actress
Anna Komnene1083–1153Byzantine princess and historian
Salvatore Schillaci1964–2024Italian association football player
Louis VI of France1081–1137king of the Franks from 1108 to 1137
Alexandra of Denmark1844–1925Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga1937–President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007
Marie Tussaud1761–1850French artist
Zoë Kravitz1988–American actress, director, singer and model
Richard Pryor1940–2005American comedian and actor
Javier Aguirre1958–Mexican association football player and manager
Zhu De1886–1976Marshal of the People's Republic of China
Sarah Silverman1970–American comedian, actress, and writer
Brad Delson1977–American guitarist and rock musician
Janelle Monáe1985–American singer and actress

Died on 1 December

12 people who died on 1 December, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
David Ben-Gurion1886–1973Prime Minister of Israel from 1948 to 1953 and from 1955 to 1963
Alexander I of Russia1777–1825Emperor of Russia from 1801 to 1825
Pope Leo X1475–1521pope from 1513 to 1521
G. H. Hardy1877–1947British mathematician
Henry I of England1068–1135King of England from 1100 to 1135
James Baldwin1924–1987American writer
Aleister Crowley1875–1947English occultist
Sergei Kirov1886–1934Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary
Christa Wolf1929–2011German novelist and essayist
J. B. S. Haldane1892–1964Geneticist and evolutionary biologist
George Stigler1911–1991American economist
Claude Jade1948–2006French actress

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