American actor, comedian, and musician

Simon Helberg

Simon Maxwell Helberg is an American actor and comedian. From 2007 to 2019, he played Howard Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory and won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the role. His performance as Cosmé McMoon in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Helberg has also appeared on the sketch comedy series MADtv as a cast member in season 8 (2002–2003), and his other film roles including Old School (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), A Serious Man (2009), and Annette (2021).

Born

1980

December 9

Died

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1980s

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536 Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.
730 Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami.
1432 The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
1531 The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.

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The world in 1980

When Simon arrived

april 12 The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
april 12 Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
april 12 Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF
april 18 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on December 9

Colin McCool 1916– Australian cricketer (died 1986) Fritz Haber 1868–1934 Polish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934) Gemma Frisius 1508–1555 Dutch mathematician and cartographer (died 1555) John Dobson 1787–2014 English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower (died 1865) Mark McMorris 1993– Canadian snowboarder Neil Innes 1944–2019 English writer, comedian and musician (born 1944) Ödön von Horváth 1901–1938 Hungarian-German author and playwright (died 1938) Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores 1930–2016 Guatemalan soldier and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (died 2016) Peter 1392–1369 Duke of Coimbra (died 1449)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1980

Aaron Brown 1980–2024 American journalist and academic (born 1948) Anthony Minichiello 1980– Australian rugby league player Bijou Phillips 1980– American actress and model Bradley Wiggins 1980– English cyclist Byron Leftwich 1980– American football player and coach Clinton Toopi 1980– New Zealand rugby league player Cody Ross 1980– American baseball player Daniel MacPherson 1980– Australian actor and television host Daniel Sedin 1980– Swedish ice hockey player

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