December 19 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 19, 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
#4 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 19 birthdays
Albert A. Michelson · American physicist1852
Italo Svevo · Italian writer1861
Eleanor H. Porter · American novelist1868
Mileva Marić · Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein1875
George Davis Snell · American geneticist1903
Jean Genet · French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist1910
Édith Piaf · French singer1915
Pratibha Patil · President of India from 2007 to 20121934
Lee Myung-bak · President of South Korea from 2008 to 20131941
Eric Allin Cornell · American physicist, professor1961
Abigail Johnson · American businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaire1961
Jennifer Beals · African-American actress1963
Criss Angel · American illusionist1967
Alyssa Milano · American actress1972
Brandon Sanderson · American fantasy writer1975
Jake Gyllenhaal · American actor1980
Gary Cahill · English association football player1985
Karim Benzema · French footballer1987
Alexis Sánchez · Chilean footballer1988
Jake Wesley Rogers · American pop musician and songwriter1996
On this day in history
1776Thomas Paine published the first in a series of pamphlets entitled The American Crisis, opening with the line: "These are the times that try men's souls."
1997Titanic, the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time with a worldwide total of more than US$2.2 billion, was released in the United States.
1998President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second president of the United States to be impeached.
2013The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue ever made.
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.
1983The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the FIFA World Cup, was stolen from the offices of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
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.
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