Born on December 19
December 19 birthdays & history
If you were born on December 19, you share a birthday with Édith Piaf, Leonid Brezhnev and Karim Benzema. December 19 babies are Sagittarius, with turquoise as their birthstone and the narcissus as their birth flower. December 19 is the 354th day of the year in leap years (353rd in other years).
Famous people born on December 19
- 1915Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress
- 1906Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union
- 1987Karim Benzema, French footballer
- 1852Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1980Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor and producer
- 1988Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
- 1875Mileva Marić, Serbian physicist
- 1972Alyssa Milano, American actress, television personality, and activist
- 1961Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1910Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, and poet
What happened on December 19
- 1154Henry II (depicted) was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
- 1187Pope Clement III is elected.
- 1924The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
- 1929The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
- 1940Risto Ryti, the Prime Minister of Finland, is elected President of the Republic of Finland in a presidential election, which is exceptionally held by the 1937 electoral college.
- 1972Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- 1974Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1984China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997.
- 1995The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
- 1999Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-103, the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
- 2012Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
- 2013The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue ever made.
Also observed on December 19
- Goa Liberation Day (Goa, India)
- National Heroes and Heroines Day (Anguilla)
Questions, answered
What star sign is December 19?
People born on December 19 are Sagittarius. Their birthstone is turquoise and their birth flower is the narcissus.
Which famous people were born on December 19?
Édith Piaf (1915), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Karim Benzema (1987), Albert Abraham Michelson (1852), Jake Gyllenhaal (1980), Alexis Sánchez (1988) were all born on December 19.
What happened on December 19 in history?
Among other things: in 1999, Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-103, the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; in 2012, Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea; in 2013, The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue ever made.
Can I get a newspaper front page from December 19?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any December 19 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “December 19”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.