Replaying Thursday, December 29, 2011

The December 29, 2011 was a Thursday under the star sign of . It was the 362 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.

If you were born on this day, you are 14 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, December 29, 2025, 179 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, December 29, 2026, in 185 days. You have lived for 5,293 days, or about 127,050 hours, or about 7,623,049 minutes, or about 457,382,940 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

  • Jude Law (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, stage actor, television actor, television director, voice actor, born December 29, 1972)
  • Jon Voight (actor, comedian, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born December 29, 1938)
  • Alison Brie (film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born December 29, 1982)
  • Ted Danson (actor, film actor, film producer, television actor, television producer, born December 29, 1947)
  • Enrico Chiesa (association football manager, association football player, born December 29, 1970)
  • Andrew Johnson (military officer, politician, slaveholder, statesperson, tailor, born December 29, 1808)
  • Elizabeth of Russia (aristocrat, monarch, politician, born December 29, 1709)
  • Charlotte Riley (actor, film actor, playwright, stage actor, writer, born December 29, 1981)
  • Diego Luna (film actor, film director, film producer, stage actor, television actor, television producer, born December 29, 1979)
  • Mary Tyler Moore (actor, film actor, film producer, manufacturer, singer, stage actor, television actor, television producer, voice actor, born December 29, 1936)
  • Rajesh Khanna (film actor, film producer, politician, singer, television actor, born December 29, 1942)
  • Jane Levy (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 29, 1989)
  • Princess Kako of Akishino (aristocrat, born December 29, 1994)
  • Thomas Bach (fencer, jurist, politician, sports official, born December 29, 1953)
  • Rina Ikoma (actor, seiyū, singer, born December 29, 1995)
  • Ross Lynch (actor, dancer, guitarist, musician, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, television actor, born December 29, 1995)
  • Dylan Minnette (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 29, 1996)
  • Kei Nishikori (tennis player, born December 29, 1989)
  • Jennifer Ehle (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1969)
  • Danny McBride (film actor, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born December 29, 1976)
  • Madame de Pompadour (lady-in-waiting, politician, royal mistress, salonnière, born December 29, 1721)
  • Marianne Faithfull (actor, autobiographer, diarist, film actor, recording artist, singer, songwriter, born December 29, 1946)
  • Twinkle Khanna (film actor, film producer, writer, born December 29, 1974)
  • Patricia Clarkson (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1959)
  • Dereck Chisora (boxer, born December 29, 1983)
  • Jason Gould (film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, singer, stage actor, writer, born December 29, 1966)
  • Dexter Holland (bioinformatician, businessperson, composer, guitarist, musician, singer, songwriter, virologist, born December 29, 1965)
  • Kuvempu (poet, professor, writer, born December 29, 1904)
  • Katherine Moennig (disc jockey, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1977)
  • Michael Cudlitz (actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born December 29, 1964)
  • Stanley "Tookie" Williams (writer, born December 29, 1953)
  • Mekhi Phifer (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, rapper, screenwriter, television actor, born December 29, 1974)
  • Yogeeta Bali (actor, born December 29, 1952)
  • Marco Antonio Solís (actor, composer, musician, record producer, singer, born December 29, 1959)
  • Venustiano Carranza (military personnel, politician, born December 29, 1859)
  • William Ewart Gladstone (diplomat, politician, statistician, writer, born December 29, 1809)
  • Myles Garrett (American football player, born December 29, 1995)
  • Norihito, Prince Takamado (aristocrat, jurist, born December 29, 1954)
  • Patsy Ramsey (beauty pageant contestant, born December 29, 1956)
  • Shawn Hatosy (film actor, television actor, born December 29, 1975)
  • David Fumero (actor, model, television actor, born December 29, 1972)
  • Dina Merrill (executive producer, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1923)
  • Pulkit Samrat (actor, model, television actor, born December 29, 1983)
  • Sean Payton (American football player, Canadian football player, born December 29, 1963)
  • Mislav Oršić (association football player, born December 29, 1992)
  • Cozy Powell (drummer, studio musician, born December 29, 1947)
  • Paris Berelc (film actor, model, television actor, born December 29, 1998)
  • Christen Press (association football player, born December 29, 1988)
  • Tarita Teriipaia (film actor, born December 29, 1941)
  • Klaus Fuchs (atomic spy, nuclear physicist, physicist, politician, theoretical physicist, university teacher, born December 29, 1911)
  • Rick Danko (fiddler, guitarist, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, born December 29, 1942)
  • Pimp C (businessperson, composer, rapper, record producer, recording artist, singer, born December 29, 1973)
  • Shōgo Hamada (drummer, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, born December 29, 1952)
  • Sam Sheppard (actor, neurosurgeon, professional wrestler, born December 29, 1923)
  • Alexa Ray Joel (composer, pianist, singer, singer-songwriter, born December 29, 1985)
  • Bernard Cribbins (actor, comedian, film actor, singer, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born December 29, 1928)
  • Iain De Caestecker (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1987)
  • Natalia Jiménez (recording artist, singer, born December 29, 1981)
  • Angela Scanlon (columnist, television presenter, born December 29, 1983)
  • Leonor Varela (actor, film actor, model, spokesperson, born December 29, 1972)
  • Albert Pike (lawyer, writer, born December 29, 1809)
  • Alexis Amore (actor, film actor, glamour model, journalist, model, nurse, pornographic actor, born December 29, 1978)
  • Yvonne Elliman (actor, film actor, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, stage actor, born December 29, 1951)
  • Janice Man (actor, born December 29, 1988)
  • Steven Caulker (association football player, born December 29, 1991)
  • Patrick Fischler (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 29, 1969)
  • Pablo Casals (autobiographer, cellist, composer, conductor, music pedagogue, musician, university teacher, born December 29, 1876)
  • Heera Rajagopal (Blogger, activist, actor, philanthropist, born December 29, 1971)
  • Barry Atsma (actor, director, born December 29, 1972)
  • Kieron Dyer (association football player, born December 29, 1978)
  • Theo Epstein (businessperson, executive, president, born December 29, 1973)
  • Ashleigh Banfield (journalist, born December 29, 1967)
  • David Alfaro Siqueiros (fresco painter, military personnel, painter, printmaker, university teacher, born December 29, 1896)
  • Dave Pelzer (writer, born December 29, 1960)
  • San-yūtei Enraku V (actor, comedian, rakugoka, tarento, television presenter, born December 29, 1932)
  • Shizuka Arakawa (figure skater, figure skating choreographer, born December 29, 1981)
  • Antoku (ruler, born December 22, 1178)
  • Vera Brittain (feminist, journalist, novelist, nurse, pacifist, peace activist, poet, suffragist, writer, born December 29, 1893)
  • Jon Polito (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born December 29, 1950)
  • Evan Seinfeld (actor, film director, film producer, musician, pornographic actor, screenwriter, singer, television actor, voice actor, born December 29, 1967)
  • Cheikh Anta Diop (anthropologist, egyptologist, historian, nuclear physicist, politician, born December 29, 1923)
  • Ennis Esmer (film actor, screenwriter, television actor, writer, born December 29, 1978)
  • Aled Jones (opera singer, radio personality, singer, television presenter, born December 29, 1970)
  • Laurent Gerra (screenwriter, born December 29, 1967)
  • Billy Mitchell (aircraft pilot, military officer, born December 29, 1879)
  • Christian Kracht (journalist, science fiction writer, writer, born December 29, 1966)
  • Taishū Kase (actor, bartender, film actor, born December 29, 1969)
  • Moe Oshikiri (fashion model, model, tarento, born December 29, 1979)
  • Brady Smith (actor, television actor, born December 29, 1971)
  • Eric Berry (American football player, born December 29, 1988)
  • Chris Barnes (film editor, lyricist, record producer, singer, songwriter, born December 29, 1967)
  • Viveca Lindfors (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1920)
  • Charlayne Woodard (actor, film actor, playwright, stage actor, television actor, writer, born December 29, 1953)
  • Paula Poundstone (actor, author, pundit, screenwriter, stand-up comedian, born December 29, 1959)
  • Shingo Tsurumi (actor, seiyū, born December 29, 1964)
  • Dieter Thomas Heck (radio personality, singer, television actor, television presenter, born December 29, 1937)
  • Ken'ichi Asai (composer, guitarist, record producer, singer, singer-songwriter, born December 29, 1964)
  • Syed Kirmani (cricketer, born December 29, 1949)
  • Charles Goodyear (businessperson, chemist, engineer, inventor, born December 29, 1800)
  • Yi Gu (businessperson, born December 29, 1931)
  • Dallas Austin (guitarist, musician, record producer, songwriter, born December 29, 1970)
  • James McTeigue (film director, born December 29, 1967)
  • James S.C. Chao (businessperson, entrepreneur, sailor, born December 29, 1927)
  • Teresa Perales (politician, swimmer, born December 29, 1975)
  • Deenanath Mangeshkar (actor, composer, born December 29, 1900)
  • Candido Portinari (drawer, painter, politician, born December 29, 1903)
  • Kevin Weisman (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1970)
  • Jo Van Fleet (actor, film actor, stage actor, born December 29, 1915)
  • Neil Giraldo (guitarist, musician, record producer, songwriter, born December 29, 1955)
  • Carlo Ponti (actor, conductor, born December 29, 1968)
  • R. Sundarrajan (film director, born December 29, 1974)
  • Kayoko Kishimoto (actor, singer, born December 29, 1960)
  • Saqlain Mushtaq (cricketer, television producer, born December 29, 1976)
  • Michał Koterski (actor, journalist, born December 29, 1979)
  • Chris Pang (actor, television actor, born December 29, 1984)
  • Ramanand Sagar (film director, film producer, screenwriter, writer, born December 29, 1917)
  • Ed Bruce (actor, composer, musician, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, born December 29, 1939)
  • Dobrica Ćosić (essayist, novelist, political commissar, politician, science fiction writer, writer, born December 29, 1921)
  • Ronald Coase (economist, historian, university teacher, writer, born December 29, 1910)
  • Chen Pokong (journalist, political activist, writer, born December 29, 1963)
  • Ray Thomas (saxophonist, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, born December 29, 1941)
  • Billy Tipton (jazz musician, pianist, saxophonist, born December 29, 1914)
  • Steve Williams (racing driver, born December 29, 1963)
  • Tom Bradley (lawyer, police officer, politician, born December 29, 1917)
  • Barbara Steele (actor, film actor, born December 29, 1937)
  • Cyrina Fiallo (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 29, 1991)
  • Sergei Ryakhovsky (criminal, serial killer, born December 29, 1962)
  • Wayne Huizenga (businessperson, born December 29, 1937)
  • Ulf Kristersson (politician, born December 29, 1963)
  • Ed Flanders (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1934)
  • Kim Song-ae (politician, born December 29, 1924)
  • Kenny Ho (actor, singer, born December 29, 1959)
  • Wang Ji-hye (actor, film actor, born December 29, 1985)
  • Travis Head (cricketer, born December 29, 1993)
  • Sean Stone (actor, cinematographer, film actor, film director, film producer, photographer, screenwriter, born December 29, 1984)
  • Nie Rongzhen (engineer, politician, writer, born December 29, 1899)
  • Zhang Meng (actor, born December 29, 1988)
  • Queen Elisabeth of Romania (novelist, playwright, poet, translator, writer, born December 29, 1843)
  • Susie Garrett (actor, film actor, jazz musician, stage actor, television actor, born December 29, 1929)
  • Seira Ozawa (translator, born December 29, 1971)
  • Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee (actor, puppeteer, voice actor, born December 29, 1962)
  • László Kövér (politician, born December 29, 1959)
  • Tony Watt (association football player, born December 29, 1993)
  • Lakhdar Belloumi (association football manager, association football player, born December 29, 1958)
  • Brad Grey (entrepreneur, executive producer, film producer, television producer, born December 29, 1957)
  • Vsevolod Abdulov (actor, film actor, born December 29, 1942)
  • Graciano Rocchigiani (boxer, writer, born December 29, 1963)
  • Nesli (rapper, record producer, singer-songwriter, born December 29, 1980)
  • Mitsuko Komuro (essayist, lyricist, musician, novelist, radio personality, singer-songwriter, writer, born December 29, 1957)
  • James Martin (journalist, priest, writer, born December 29, 1960)

29th of December 2011 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 29, 2011

Hungary Passes Central Bank Rules Despite Risk to Bailout

Date: 30 December 2011

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Even though the country's borrowing costs are soaring, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it could stand on its own if talks for an I.M.F. safety net fell through.

Full Article

News Is Good for Santorum and Bad for Gingrich in New Polls

Date: 29 December 2011

By Marjorie Connelly

Marjorie Connelly

New polls in Iowa and New Hampshire suggest that Newt Gingrich is losing support in both states while Rick Santorum is gaining traction in Iowa and Mitt Romney is solidifying his lead in New Hampshire.

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Jon Banner Returns as Producer of ABC’s ‘This Week’

Date: 30 December 2011

By Brian Stelter

Brian Stelter

Jon Banner, who was the top producer of “This Week” when George Stephanopoulos started moderating the program in 2002, is returning to the show.

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This Blagojevich Listens, but He Acts Up a Lot, Too

Date: 30 December 2011

By Kristen McQueary

Kristen McQueary

A horse named Blagojevich channels his aggression into the calisthenics of winning races, not the criminal horse trading of United States Senate seats — unlike his namesake.

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An Election Year Dawns Without Keith Olbermann

Date: 29 December 2011

By Brian Stelter

Brian Stelter

Despite being the biggest star on Current TV, Keith Olbermann is not scheduled to anchor the channel’s coverage of the Iowa caucus or the New Hampshire primary in January.

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Man Who Tried to Extort Letterman Is Hired by Newsmagazine

Date: 29 December 2011

By Brian Stelter

Brian Stelter

Investigation Discovery channel announced it had hired Robert Joel Halderman, a former “48 Hours” producer who served four months in prison for trying to extort David Letterman.

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The Year in Questions

Date: 29 December 2011

By Ben Schott

Ben Schott

A quiz to test your memory of the memes like the stories that you find in the pages of The Times.

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Wheelies: The TV Commercial Edition

Date: 29 December 2011

By The New York Times

The best commercial of 2011? It shouldn’t take too much trouble to guess what one Web site chose. Other top commercials may not be quite as memorable.

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Notes from a Blogging ‘Discomfort Zone’

Date: 30 December 2011

By Andrew C. Revkin

Andrew Revkin

More on the two-way nature of blogging and the power of the Web to improve humanity’s journey.

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The Year in Questions

Date: 29 December 2011

A quiz to test your memory of the memes like the stories that you find in the pages of The Times.

Full Article