The 353rd day of the year, the 354th in a leap year
Born on 19 December
Every 19 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
- Monday and Saturday16 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 19 December in any year.
Which weekday 19 December falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 19 December falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 19 December is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,863 babies were born on 19 December in each year of the twenty, making it the 55th 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 19 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Édith Piaf | 1915–1963 | French singer |
| Leonid Brezhnev | 1906–1982 | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Karim Benzema | 1987– | French footballer |
| Albert A. Michelson | 1852–1931 | American physicist |
| Pratibha Patil | 1934– | President of India from 2007 to 2012 |
| Gustavus Adolphus | 1594–1632 | King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632; born 19 December in the Gregorian calendar, 9 December in the Julian |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | 1980– | American actor |
| Philip V of Spain | 1683–1746 | King of Spain from 1700 to 1746 |
| Lee Myung-bak | 1941– | President of South Korea from 2008 to 2013 |
| Alexis Sánchez | 1988– | Chilean footballer |
| Alyssa Milano | 1972– | American actress |
| Mileva Marić | 1875–1948 | Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein |
| Eric Allin Cornell | 1961– | American physicist, professor |
| Jean Genet | 1910–1986 | French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist |
| Italo Svevo | 1861–1928 | Italian writer |
| Gary Cahill | 1985– | English association football player |
| Ryan Babel | 1986– | Dutch association football player |
| Cicely Tyson | 1924–2021 | American actress |
Died on 19 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Al-Ghazali | 1058–1111 | Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic |
| Emily Brontë | 1818–1848 | English novelist and poet |
| Robert Millikan | 1868–1953 | American physicist |
| Marcello Mastroianni | 1924–1996 | Italian actor |
| J. M. W. Turner | 1775–1851 | English painter and draftsman |
| Vitus Bering | 1681–1741 | Danish-born Russian explorer |
| Pope Urban V | 1310–1370 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1362 to 1370 |
| Pope Anastasius I | died 401 | pope |
| Alois Alzheimer | 1864–1915 | German psychiatrist and neuropathologist |
| Paul Langevin | 1872–1946 | French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue |
| Herbert C. Brown | 1912–2004 | American chemist |
| Andrei Karlov | 1954–2016 | Soviet and Russian diplomat |
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