December 1 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 1, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#180 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 1 birthdays
Alexandra of Denmark · Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 19101844
Rex Stout · American writer1886
Martin Rodbell · American biochemist1925
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga · 6th President of Latvia1937
Richard Pryor · American comedian and actor1940
John Clauser · American physicist1942
Finn E. Kydland · Norwegian economist1943
Bette Midler · American singer and actress1945
Pablo Escobar · Colombian politician and drug lord1949
Sebastián Piñera · Chilean entrepreneur and politician1949
Treat Williams · American actor, producer, director, and author1951
Jaco Pastorius · American jazz bassist1951
Victor Ambros · American developmental biologist1953
Salvatore Schillaci · Italian association football player1964
Néstor Carbonell · American actor1967
Sarah Silverman · American comedian, actress, and writer1970
Brad Delson · American guitarist and rock musician1977
Jen Psaki · American political advisor and White House Press Secretary from 20211978
Janelle Monáe · American singer and actress1985
Zoë Kravitz · American actress, director, singer and model1988
On this day in history
1941The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, was founded.
1953American men's magazine Playboy was founded in Chicago by Hugh Hefner and his associates.
1955Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.
1966The Pit, one of U.S. college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
1969Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971A period of political and economic reforms in the Socialist Republic of Croatia came to an end as the League of Communists of Yugoslavia decided to purge the state's reformist leadership.
1989Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
1991A referendum held to ratify the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine passed with more than 92 percent of the vote.
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