On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
December 19 1967
Born on This Day

Abigail Johnson
business executive · b. 1961
Days alive
2,191

Alberto Tomba🇮🇹
actor · b. 1966
Days alive
365

Alexis Sánchez🇨🇱
Chilean footballer (born 1988) · b. 1988

Alvin Lee🇬🇧
deceasedsinger · 1944–2013
Days lived
24,914
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Alyssa Milano🇺🇸
American actress (born 1972) · b. 1972

Annemarie Sörensen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1913-1993) · 1913–1993
Days lived
28,868
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Ben Becker🇩🇪
German actor (born 1964) · b. 1964
Days alive
1,095

Bernhard Vogel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician · 1932–2025
Days lived
33,676
Bobby Timmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican pianist (1935-1974) · 1935–1974
Days lived
13,952
Branislav Prelević🇬🇷
basketball player · b. 1966
Days alive
365

Carlos Gomes Júnior
Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau · b. 1949
Days alive
6,574
%2520-%2520Christine%2520Laszar.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Christine Laszar🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1931–2021
Days lived
32,841

Cicely Tyson
deceasedstage actor · 1924–2021
Days lived
35,104

Colette Rolland🇫🇷
French computer scientist · b. 1943
Days alive
8,766

Dajos Béla🇺🇦
deceased(1897–1978) fiddle-player and band-leader · 1897–1978
Days lived
29,570
Dantsig Baldayev🇷🇺
deceasedSoviet writer (1925-2005) · 1925–2005
Days lived
28,890

Édith Piaf🇫🇷
deceasedactor · 1915–1963
Days lived
17,462
.png%3Fwidth%3D330)
Elisa🇮🇹
singer · b. 1977

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1916–2010
Days lived
34,064
%252042.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Fikayo Tomori
association football player · b. 1997
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Galen Weston, Jr.🇨🇦
Canadian businessman · b. 1972
Heike Lätzsch🇩🇪
field hockey player · b. 1973

Herbert Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman tattoo artist and photographer (1919–2010) · 1919–2010
Days lived
33,066
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Jake Plummer🇺🇸
American football player (born 1974) · b. 1974

Jens Lehmann🇩🇪
German cyclist and politician · b. 1967
Days alive
0

Julien Dupuy🇫🇷
French rugby union player · b. 1983
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Karel Svoboda🇨🇿
deceasedCzech composer (1938—2007) · 1938–2007
Days lived
24,877

Karim Benzema
Notable Trials · b. 1987

Kevin McHale🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1957
Days alive
3,652

Kim Woo-choong🇫🇷
deceasedSouth Korean businessman (1936–2019) · 1936–2019
Days lived
30,305

Laurent Bénézech🇫🇷
French rugby union player · b. 1966
Days alive
365
.png%3Fwidth%3D330)
Lee Myung-bak
Notable Trials · b. 1941
Days alive
9,496

Marie Thérèse of France🇫🇷
deceasedAristocrat · 1778–1851
Days lived
26,601
Maurice Bellet🇫🇷
deceasedFrench presbyter, philosopher and theologian (1923–2018) · 1923–2018
Days lived
34,441

Max Adalbert🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1874–1933
Days lived
21,446

Mbaye Niang🇫🇷
Senegalese and French footballer · b. 1994
Néstor Salazar🇨🇴
Colombian footballer · b. 1973

Orna Berry🇮🇱
Israeli scientist, high-tech entrepreneur and businesswoman · b. 1949
Days alive
6,574

Rafael Soriano🇩🇴
film director · b. 1979
Rainer Bertram🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and television director (1932-2004) · 1932–2004
Days lived
26,302
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Randall McDaniel🇺🇸
All-American college football player, professional football player, offensive lineman, College Football Hall of Fame member, Pro Football Hall of Fame member · b. 1964
Days alive
1,095
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Rudolf Hell🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1901–2002
Days lived
36,607

Sally Kipyego🇰🇪
Kenyan-born American long- and middle-distance runner · b. 1985

Samy Deluxe🇩🇪
rapper · b. 1977
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Steven Berghuis🇳🇱
Dutch association football player (born 1991) · b. 1991
Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg🇷🇺
deceasedGerman patron of the arts of Russian birth (1915–2006) · 1914–2006
Days lived
33,457
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Til Schweiger🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1963
Days alive
1,461

Wilhelm His🇩🇪
deceasedGerman cardiologist (1863–1934) · 1863–1934
Days lived
25,893

Zal Yanovsky🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1944–2002
Days lived
21,178
Died on This Day
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Amata Kabua
deceasedformer President of the Marshall Islands (1928-1996) · 1928–1996
Days lived
24,869
Bill Froberg🇺🇸
deceasedbaseball player (1957-2020) · 1957–2020
Days lived
23,053

Blind Lemon Jefferson🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1893–1929
Days lived
13,234

Desmond Llewelyn🇬🇧
deceasedactor · 1914–1999
Days lived
31,144
Diogo Graf🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss artist (1896-1966) · 1896–1966
Days lived
25,641

Emile Tibbaut🇧🇪
deceasedBelgian politician and lawyer (1862-1935) · 1862–1935
Days lived
26,852

Giridharilal Kedia🇮🇳
deceasedpolitician · 1936–2009
Days lived
26,779

Hans Langsdorff🇳🇴
deceasedRecipient of the Iron Cross (1894–1939) · 1894–1939
Days lived
16,709

Hermann Burchardt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman explorer, photographer and merchant · 1857–1909
Days lived
19,023
Jacques Tourneur🇫🇷
deceasedFrench film director (1904–1977) · 1904–1977
Days lived
26,700
James Ransone🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1979–2025
Days lived
17,002

Paul Langevin🇫🇷
deceasedFrench physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946) · 1872–1946
Days lived
27,358

Rudolf Leonhard🇩🇪
deceasedpoet and German politician (1889-1953) · 1889–1953
Days lived
23,428

Rudolph Karstadt
deceasedGerman entrepreneur (1856–1944) · 1856–1944
Days lived
32,448

Theodor Wiegand🇩🇪
deceasedGerman archaeologist (1864–1936) · 1864–1936
Days lived
26,347
%2520Ulrike%2520Kaufmann.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Ulrike Kaufmann🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1953–2014
Days lived
22,377

Wilhelm Kaisen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician, Mayor of Bremen (1887-1979) · 1887–1979
Days lived
33,813
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
41,989

Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335

Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338

Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688

Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997

Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427

Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012

Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718

Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Edward Roberts
deceasedBritish priest · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,236

Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290

Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190

E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003

Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163

Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115

Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
.jpg%3Fwidth%3D330)
Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404

Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,660
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,833
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,530
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,103
HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,545
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,511
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,145
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,589
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,241
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,040
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,554
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,572
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,241
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,593
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,136
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,046
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,023
Already Released
Films already out by this date.