Did you know
Karim Benzema won 25 trophies with Real Madrid, including four La Liga, three Copa del Rey, and five UEFA Champions League titles.
Famous Birthdays on December 19
1987 — Karim Benzema
French footballer
December 19 has 238 recorded notable births across history, from 1343 to 1998. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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1343 – 1998
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Major events on December 19
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- 2012 Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea. Source
- 1828 Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparks the Nullification Crisis when he anonymously publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. Source
- 1929 The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India). Source
- 1606 The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. Source
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In February 2018, she released her debut single "1950", from her debut extended play (EP) Make My Bed, released later that year.
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Along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier, he made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
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Playing the center position, Sabonis won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, in South Korea, for the Soviet Union, and later earned bronze medals at the 1992 Olympic Games and 1996 Olympic Games representing Lithuania.
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In the 2016 NBA Finals, he won his only NBA championship with the Cavaliers.
More major people born on December 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1998
King Princess
American singer-songwriter and musician
Mikaela Mullaney Straus, known professionally as King Princess, is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor from Brooklyn, New York.
1902
Ralph Richardson
English actor (died 1983)
Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor. Along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier, he made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th…
1964
Arvydas Sabonis
Lithuanian basketball player
Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a Soviet Lithuanian former professional basketball player and businessman. Sabonis won the Euroscar six times and the Mr. Europa Award twice.
1982
Mo Williams
American basketball player
Maurice Williams is an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky and a former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1875
Carter G. Woodson
American historian and author, founded Black History Month (died 1950)
Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
1966
Alberto Tomba
Italian skier
Alberto Tomba is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. He was the dominant technical skier in the late 1980s and 1990s.
1974
Mige (musician)
Finnish musician, bassist and founding member of the gothic rock band HIM
Mikko Henrik Julius Paananen, better known as Mige, is a Finnish musician, best known as the bassist and founding member of the gothic rock band HIM.
1924
Doug Harvey
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1989)
Douglas Norman Harvey was a Canadian professional hockey defenceman.
1964
Lorie Kane
Canadian golfer
Lorie Kane, is a Canadian professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. She began her career on the LPGA Tour in 1996 and has four career victories and 99 top-10 finishes on the tour.
1930
Anca Giurchescu
Romanian academic (died 2015)
Anca Giurchescu née Ciortea was a Romanian researcher of folk dance, and an ethnochoreologist, one of the founders of the discipline.
1923
Robert V. Bruce
American historian and author (died 2008)
Robert Vance Bruce was an American historian specializing in the American Civil War, who won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 (1987).
1925
Robert B. Sherman
American songwriter and screenwriter (died 2012)
Robert Bernard Sherman was an American songwriter. Best known for his work in musical films with his brother, Richard M.
1930
Wally Olins
English businessman and academic (died 2014)
Wallace Olins CBE was a British practitioner of corporate identity and branding. He co-founded Wolff Olins and Saffron Brand Consultants and was the chairman of both.
1972
Warren Sapp
American football player and analyst
Warren Carlos Sapp is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1683
Philip V of Spain (died 1746)
Philip V was king of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 14 January 1724 and again from 6 September 1724 to his death in 1746. His total reign is the longest in the history of the Spanish monarchy, surpassing Philip IV.
1963
Til Schweiger
German actor, director, and producer
Tilman Valentin Schweiger is a German actor and filmmaker. He became known in the 1990s for films such as Manta, Manta, Der bewegte Mann and Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
1928
Nathan Oliveira
American painter and sculptor (died 2010)
Nathan Oliveira was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to immigrant Portuguese parents.
1980
Marla Sokoloff
American actress and musician
Marla Sokoloff is an American actress. She is known for playing Gia Mahan on Full House and Fuller House, Cokie Mason in The Babysitters Club movie, and Lucy Hatcher on the legal drama series The Practice.
1943
Ross M. Lence
American political scientist and academic (died 2006)
Ross Marlo Anthony Lence was an American political scientist. He was professor of political science at the University of Houston from 1971 to 2006, where he was John and Rebecca Moores Professor and then held the Ross…