Today
Saturday December 19 2026
- Day of the year
- 353/ 365
- Week
- 512,026
- Days left
- 1297%
- Moon
- 75%Waxing gibbous
Today is Saturday, December 19, 2026. It is day 353 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 12 remain, and 97% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 51.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- December 20International Human Solidarity Day
- January 4World Braille Day
- January 24International Day of Education
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Saint Nicholas4th-century Christian bishop and saint
- Urban Vpope of the Catholic Church from 1362 to 1370
- Anastasius Ipope
- Boniface of TarsusRoman saint
- Gregentius of Taphararchbishop of Zafar, Himyar and saint
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:16
- Sunset
- 16:31
- Length of day
- 9h 15m
- Solar noon
- 11:53
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Autumn
began on September 22, 2026
Next season
Winter — 2 days, December 21, 2026 (December solstice)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Christmas Day — December 25, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waxing gibbous
Illumination : 75%
Moon age : 10.7 days
- Next full moon
- December 24, 2026
- Next new moon
- January 7, 2027
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Sagittarius
until December 22, 2026 — Capricorn
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1154
Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. Wikipedia
1187
Pope Clement III is elected. Wikipedia
1562
The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion. Wikipedia
1941
World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres. Wikipedia
1946
Start of the First Indochina War. Wikipedia
1972
Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth. Wikipedia
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1986
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky. Wikipedia
1998
President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second president of the United States to be impeached. Wikipedia
2013
Spacecraft Gaia is launched by the European Space Agency. Wikipedia
2016
Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day December 19
- 1683Philip V of Spain (died 1746)
- 1778Marie Thérèse of France (died 1851)
- 1852Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1931)
- 1875Mileva Marić, Serbian physicist (died 1948)
- 1888Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (died 1963)
- 1902Ralph Richardson, English actor (died 1983)
- 1906Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (died 1982)
- 1910Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, and poet (died 1986)
Died on this day December 19
- 1370Pope Urban V (born 1310)aged 60 years
- 1741Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (born 1681)aged 60 years
- 1848Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (born 1818)aged 30 years
- 1851Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter (born 1775)aged 76 years
- 1915Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1864)aged 51 years
- 1953Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)aged 85 years
- 1996Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (born 1924)aged 72 years
- 1999Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh soldier and actor (born 1914)aged 85 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 07:16 and sets at 16:31, giving 9h 15m of daylight — the same as yesterday. It has been autumn since September 22, 2026; winter opens in 2 days, on December 21, 2026 (December solstice).
The moon is waxing gibbous, 75% illuminated. The next full moon falls on December 24, 2026 and the next new moon on January 7, 2027.
The saints' calendar attaches December 19 to Saint Nicholas, Urban V and Anastasius I.
No United Nations international day falls on December 19. The next one on the calendar is International Human Solidarity Day, on December 20.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey (1154); Pope Clement III is elected (1187). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Philip V of Spain was born on December 19, 1683; Pope Urban V died on December 19, 1370.
6 days remain until Christmas and 13 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — December 19 falls under the sign of Sagittarius.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 97%
- of the year elapsed
- 6
- until Christmas
- 13
- until New Year
- 437
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26