In context
- When
- Tuesday, December 24 199135 years ago
- Category
- BirthA notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
- Era
- 20th century · 1990s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
- Person
- Louis Tomlinson
At a glance
Born 1991-12-24.
Known as: singer, songwriter, singer-songwriter, association football player, and pop musician. Citizenship: United Kingdom.
Listed as: human.
Who they were
Louis William Tomlinson is an English singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Doncaster, England, Tomlinson auditioned for British singing competition The X Factor as a solo artist in 2010, where he and four rejected solo contestants were placed into a group which became the British-Irish band One Direction, one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
Early life
Educated at: Hall Cross Academy and The Hayfield School.
Early life and family Tomlinson was born as Louis Troy Austin on 24 December 1991 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in Doncaster , South Yorkshire, England, [ 3 ] to then 18-year-old Johannah "Jay" Poulston and Troy Austin, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] who left when he was an infant. [ 6 ] He is estranged from his father, [ 7 ] and took on his then-stepfather Mark Tomlinson's surname, [ 8 ] legally changing his name to Louis William Tomlinson. [ 7 ] [ 4 ] [ 9 ]
Path and career
Career Early career Tomlinson, along with two of his siblings, had extra roles in Fat Friends . He met actor James Corden on the set, who later became his friend. After Fat Friends , he attended an acting school in Barnsley . He had small parts in an ITV drama film If I Had You and as an extra in BBC 's Waterloo Road . [ 1 ] : 109  Tomlinson was a singer in a school band called "The Rogue" for two years, covering acts such as Oasis , Blink-182 and Green Day .
Why this date
Louis Tomlinson appears on our December 24 calendar for 1991 as a birth entry.
December 24 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 1991Louis Tomlinson
- 1994Air France Flight 8969
- 1996Learjet 35
- 1997Sid El-Antri massacre
- 1999Indian Airlines Flight 814
- 1999Jihadism
- 2003ETA (separatist group)
- 2005Chad–Sudan relations
- 2008Lord's Resistance Army
- 20182018 Puebla helicopter crash
- 2021Tatmadaw
Also in 1991
- September 9TajikistanTajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- September 11Continental Express Flight 2574Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.
- March 14EscondidaEscondida, one of the most productive copper mines in the world, was officially inaugurated.
- September 12Space Shuttle DiscoveryNASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
- September 17EstoniaEstonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
- September 17LinuxThe first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- September 5Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
- October 201991 Uttarkashi earthquakeAn earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.
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December 24 1991 — 35 years ago, on a Tuesday.
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