December 21 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 21, 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
#53 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 21 birthdays
Benjamin Disraeli · British statesman1804
Hermann Joseph Muller · American biologist1890
Heinrich Böll · German writer1917
Kurt Waldheim · Austrian politician and diplomat1918
Jane Fonda · American actress and activist1937
Frank Zappa · American musician1940
Hu Jintao · Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party1942
Samuel L. Jackson · American actor1948
Thomas Sankara · President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 19871949
Chris Evert · American former tennis player1954
Ray Romano · American stand-up comedian1957
Florence Griffith Joyner · American track and field athlete1959
Andy Dick · American comedian and actor1965
Kiefer Sutherland · British-Canadian actor1966
Mikheil Saakashvili · Georgian and Ukrainian politician1967
Julie Delpy · French and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer1969
Charles Michel · Belgian politician1975
Emmanuel Macron · President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 20171977
Steven Yeun · South Korean-American actor1983
Kaitlyn Dever · American actress1996
On this day in history
1826Settlers from the United States in Mexican Texas made the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the short-lived Republic of Fredonia.
1995In accordance with the Oslo II Accord, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem in preparation for the transfer of control to the Palestinian National Authority.
2012Countries that were part of the Maya civilization celebrated the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.
2018Operatives of the British Special Boat Service boarded the container ship Grande Tema in the Thames Estuary to detain four stowaways who had threatened the crew.
1965The United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which 88 member states have since signed.
1968Apollo 8 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a trajectory to the Moon; its crew became the first humans to visit another celestial body.
1988The world's heaviest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, made its first flight.
1994Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, dormant for 47 years, began erupting, and is now one of the nation's most active volcanoes.
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