Famous Births on 23 Dec

Famous Births on 23 Dec

1173 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)
1513 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1582 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (d. 1663)
1597 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
1613 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
1621 - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
1621 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
1689 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)
1732 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
1758 - Nathan Wilson U.S. Represenative from New York
1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
1790 - Jean François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
1804 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)
1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader (d. 1844)
1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
1822 - Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
1843 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
1854 - Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)
1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
1867 - Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (d. 1919)
1878 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
1885 - Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
1900 - Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
1902 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
1907 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005)
1907 - Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
1908 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born, Canadian portrait photographer (d. 2002)
1910 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (d. 1961)
1911 - James Gregory, American actor (d. 2002)
1911 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
1916 - Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter
1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
1918 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
1918 - Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor
1919 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (d. 2006)
1921 - Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
1922 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
1923 - Günther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
1923 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
1923 - James Stockdale, American admiral (d. 2005)
1923 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (d. 1954)
1926 - Robert Bly, American poet
1928 - Chronis Aidonidis, Greek singer
1929 - Dick Weber, American professional tenpin bowler (d. 2005)
1929 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
1931 - Ronnie Schell, American actor
1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
1935 - Paul Hornung, American football player
1935 - Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
1936 - Frederic Forrest, American actor
1937 - Barney Rosenzweig, American television producer
1938 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
1940 - Eugene Record, American singer (The Chi-Lites) (d. 2005)
1940 - Robert Labine, French-Canadian politician
1940 - Jorma Kaukonen, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
1941 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (d. 1975)
1941 - Ron Bushy, American musician
1941 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
1942 - John Peterman, American fashion designer
1943 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
1943 - Ron Allen, American baseball player
1943 - Harry Shearer, American actor
1943 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
1944 - Wesley Clark, American military officer
1945 - Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1946 - Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano
1946 - Susan Lucci, American actress
1948 - Leslie Moonves, American television executive
1948 - Jack Ham, American football player
1949 - Adrian Belew, American musician
1950 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
1950 - Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author
1951 - Anthony Phillips, British musician (Genesis)
1952 - William Kristol, American political commentator
1953 - Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
1956 - Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)
1957 - Trisha Goddard, English television presenter
1957 - Dan Bigras, Canadian singer
1958 - Victoria Williams, American singer
1958 - Joan Severance, American actress
1958 - Dave Murray, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1959 - Geoff Willis, British engineer
1961 - Carol Smillie, British television personality
1962 - Keiji Muto, Japanese professional wrestler
1962 - Kang Je-gyu, South Korean film director
1962 - Bertrand Gachot, Belgian racing driver
1963 - Jim Harbaugh, American football player
1963 - Donna Tartt, American author
1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1967 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French model and singer
1967 - Tim Fountain, British playwright
1968 - Quincy Jones III, Swedish-American musician
1969 - Rob Pelinka, American sports agent
1969 - Martha Byrne, American actress
1969 - Greg Biffle, American racecar driver
1970 - Catriona LeMay Doan, Canadian speed skater
1970 - Raymont Harris, American football player
1971 - Wim Vansevenant, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
1971 - Michalis Klokidis, Greek footballer
1971 - Masayoshi Yamazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1971 - Corey Haim, Canadian actor
1974 - Agustín Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer
1975 - Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
1975 - Sky Lopez, American actress
1976 - Brad Lidge, American baseball player
1976 - Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Greek footballer
1976 - Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
1977 - Paul Shirley, American basketball player
1977 - Jari Mäenpää, Finnish guitarist and singer
1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
1978 - Andra Davis, American football player
1978 - Esthero, Canadian musician and singer
1978 - Jodie Marsh, British glamour model
1978 - Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 - Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress
1979 - Kenny Miller, Scottish football player
1979 - Holly Madison, American model
1979 - Scott Gomez, American ice hockey player
1979 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
1980 - Cody Ross, American baseball player
1981 - Beth, Spanish singer
1983 - Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Michael Chopra, English footballer
1985 - Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
1985 - Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
1988 - Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
1990 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
245 - Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

Famous Births on 21 Dec

Famous Births on 21 Dec

1118 - Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
1401 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1596 - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
1603 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
1714 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
1778 - Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)
1795 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
1805 - Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)
1811 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)
1815 - Thomas Couture French painter and teacher (d. 1879)
1818 - Amalia of Oldenburg, Queen of Greece (d. 1875)
1832 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)
1843 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealander poet (d. 1898)
1850 - Zdeněk Fibich, Bohemian composer (d. 1900)
1850 - William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1851 - Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1859 - Gustave Kahn, French poet (d. 1936)
1872 - Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
1872 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
1872 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (d. 1942)
1873 - Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (d. 1934)
1876 - Jack Lang (John Thomas Lang), Premier of New South Wales (d. 1975)
1878 - Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
1879 - Joseph Stalin, U.S.S.R Leader
1885 - Frank Patrick, hockey player (d. 1960)
1889 - Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988)
1890 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
1891 - John William McCormack, American politician (d. 1980)
1892 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (d. 1969)
1892 - Rebecca West, American writer (d. 1983)
1892 - Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet
1896 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
1905 - Anthony Powell, British author (d. 2000)
1909 - Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992)
1911 - Josh Gibson, American baseball player (d. 1947)
1914 - Ivan Generalić, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992)
1915 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
1917 - Heinrich Böll, German writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1917 - Sophie Masloff, American politician
1918 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian United Nations Secretary-General and Federal President of Austria (d. 2007)
1918 - Donald Regan, American White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
1920 - Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina
1920 - Bob Bindig, cartoonist (d. 2006)
1920 - Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
1921 - Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (d. 2008)
1921 - John Severin, American comics artist
1922 - Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist (d. 2005)
1923 - Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan
1926 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
1932 - Edward Hoagland, American essayist
1935 - John G. Avildsen, American film director
1935 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racecar driver (d. 1967)
1935 - Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist (d. 2003)
1935 - Phil Donahue, American talk show host
1935 - Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba
1937 - Donald F. Munson, American politician
1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress
1939 - Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician
1940 - Frank Zappa, American musician (d. 1993)
1940 - Ray Hildebrand, American singer (Paul & Paula)
1942 - Hu Jintao, Chinese president
1942 - Reinhard Mey, German singer
1942 - Carla Thomas, American singer
1943 - André Arthur. Quebec radio host
1944 - Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
1944 - Bill Atkinson, English footballer
1946 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1946 - Christopher Keene, American conductor (d. 1995)
1947 - Paco de Lucía, Spanish musician
1947 - Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer
1948 - Dave Kingman, baseball player
1948 - Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician
1948 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
1949 - Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek politician
1950 - Jeffrey Katzenberg, American producer
1950 - Lillebjørn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1951 - Nick Gilder, English musician (Sweeney Todd)
1952 - Joaquín Andújar, baseball player
1953 - Betty Wright, American singer
1954 - Chris Evert, American tennis player
1955 - Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
1955 - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician
1957 - Tom Henke, American baseball player
1957 - Ray Romano, Italian-American comedian
1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (d. 1998)
1960 - Andy Van Slyke, baseball player
1960 - Roger McDowell, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
1960 - Louis Demetrius Alvanis, London-based pianist
1961 - Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
1961 - Ryuji Sasai, Japanese composer
1964 - Rob Kelly, English football manager
1964 - Fabiana Udenio, Argentine actress
1965 - Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
1965 - Anke Engelke, German comedian
1966 - Karri Turner, American actress
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor
1967 - Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia
1967 - Ervin Johnson, American basketball player
1967 - Terry Mills, American basketball player
1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress
1969 - Mihails Zemļinskis, Latvian footballer
1971 - Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel, The X's)
1971 - Fenton Keogh, Australian celebrity chef
1971 - Mathieu Chedid, French musician
1972 - Latroy Hawkins, baseball player
1972 - Erwin Schrott, Uruguayan opera singer
1972 - Dustin Hermanson, baseball player
1973 - Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer
1973 - Mike Alstott, American football player
1974 - Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
1975 - Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
1976 - Mirela Manjani, Greek javelin thrower
1978 - Mike Vitar, American actor
1979 - Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and singer
1980 - Royce Ring, Major League Baseball Player
1981 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate. (d. 2007)
1981 - Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
1981 - Lynda Thomas, Mexican singer
1981 - Cristian Zaccardo, Italian football player
1982 - Mike Gansey, American basketball player
1982 - Erica Hayden, American journalist and radio personality
1982 - Philip Humber, American baseball player
1982 - Iljo Keisse, Belgian cyclist
1984 - Darren Potter, Irish footballer
1985 - James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
1987 - Valerie Concepcion, Filipino Actress

Famous Births on 20 Dec

Famous Births on 20 Dec

1494 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1566 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)
1579 - (baptized) John Fletcher, English playwright (d. 1625)
1626 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)
1629 - Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
1717 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
1786 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
1792 - Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
1833 - Samuel Mudd, American physician (d. 1883)
1838 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)
1841 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1860 - Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
1861 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
1865 - Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)
1868 - Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1873 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(d. 1948)
1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)
1886 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (d. 1974)
1888 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958)
1890 - Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress (d. 1958)
1890 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
1898 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor (d. 1967)
1902 - Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989)
1902 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
1904 - Spud Davis, baseball player (d. 1984)
1905 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricket player
1907 - Paul Francis Webster, songwriter (d. 1984)
1908 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (d. 1994)
1909 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 - Hortense Calisher, American author
1916 - Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader
1917 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
1918 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian trade unionist and politician (d. 1988)
1918 - Audrey Totter, American actress
1922 - George Roy Hill, American film director (d. 2002)
1922 - Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter
1924 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster (d. 1980)
1924 - Charlie Callas, American comedian
1925 - Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
1926 - Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician
1926 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician
1927 - Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea
1931 - Mala Powers, American film actress (d. 2007)
1932 - John Hillerman, American actor, Magnum P.I.
1933 - Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator
1933 - Rik van Looy, Belgian cyclist
1935 - Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricket player
1938 - John Harbison, American composer
1942 - Rana Bhagwandas, Former Pakistani Chief Justice
1944 - Bobby Colomby, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1944 - Jean Fergusson, English actress
1945 - Peter Criss, American drummer and singer (Kiss)
1946 - Uri Geller, Israeli psychic
1946 - John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
1946 - Dick Wolf, American television series creator
1947 - Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
1948 - Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist
1949 - Cecil Cooper, American baseball player
1949 - Soumaïla Cissé, Malian politician
1951 - Gilbert Montagné, French musician
1951 - Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter
1952 - Jenny Agutter, English actress
1954 - Michael Badalucco, American actor
1954 - Sandra Cisneros, American writer
1955 - Ed Kuepper, German-born Australian musician (The Saints, Laughing Clowns)
1956 - Junji Hirata, Japanese professional wrestler
1956 - Blanche Baker, American actress
1957 - Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter
1957 - Mike Watt, American bassist
1957 - Stephen Bicknell, British organ builder and scholar (d. 2007)
1957 - Joyce Hyser, American actress
1957 - Anna Vissi, Greek-Cypriot singer
1958 - Steve Sailer, American political commentator
1960 - Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian writer
1961 - Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor
1963 - Infanta Elena of Spain
1963 - Joel Gretsch, American actor
1964 - Mark Coleman, American Mixed Martial Artist, UFC Hall of Famer
1965 - Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor
1965 - Rich Gannon, American football player
1966 - Myrra Malmberg, Swedish singer
1966 - Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes)
1966 - Matt Neal , British Race Driver
1968 - Karl Wendlinger, Austrian racing driver
1968 - Joe Cornish, British comedian
1968 - Phil Andrews, British racing driver
1970 - Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress
1970 - Grant Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer
1972 - Anders Odden, Norwegian musician
1973 - Cory Stillman, National Hockey League forward
1974 - Die, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1975 - Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
1975 - Jaydy Michel, Mexican model
1976 - Jang Hyuk, Korean actor
1976 - Aubrey Huff, American baseball player
1976 - Adam Powell, Neopets creator
1976 - Ramon Stoppelenburg, world traveler and Dutch author
1977 - Saukrates, Canadian rapper
1978 - Andrei Markov, Russian ice hockey player
1978 - Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer
1979 - David DeJesus, American baseball player
1979 - Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist
1980 - Ashley Cole, English footballer
1980 - Fitz Hall, English footballer
1980 - Tony, French-born Portuguese footballer
1981 - Chris Edwards, British musician (Kasabian)
1981 - James Shields, American baseball player
1981 - Roy Williams, American football player
1982 - David Cook, American singer, winner of American Idol.
1982 - Mohammed Asif, Pakistani cricket player
1982 - Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer
1982 - David Wright, American baseball player
1983 - Adrián Varela, Mexican singer
1983 - Lara Stone, Dutch model
1983 - Darren Sammy, St. Lucian West Indies cricketer
1983 - Lucy Pinder, British model
1983 - Jonah Hill, American actor
1987 - Tariel Zintiridis, Greek judoka
1989 - Virgilio Falco, Italian politician
1990 - JoJo, American singer

Famous Births on 19 Dec

Famous Births on 19 Dec

1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1683 - Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1699 - William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1778 - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
1784 - Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
1813 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
1817 - James J. Archer, Confederate general (d. 1904)
1831 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)
1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1931)
1853 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (d. 1932)
1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
1888 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963)
1894 - Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (d. 1978)
1901 - Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
1902 - Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
1903 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1907 - Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
1909 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
1910 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
1915 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1918 - Professor Longhair, American blues musician (d. 1980)
1920 - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer
1920 - David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d. 1987)
1922 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)
1923 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Edmund Purdom, English actor
1924 - Gary Morton, second husband of Lucille Ball (d. 1999)
1924 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
1924 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
1925 - Tankred Dorst, German dramatist
1925 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter
1926 - Bobby Layne, American football player (d. 1986)
1926 - Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
1927 - James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1928 - Nathan Oliveira, American artist
1929 - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
1929 - Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician
1932 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
1933 - Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete
1933 - Cicely Tyson, American actress
1934 - Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer
1934 - Al Kaline, American baseball player
1934 - Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American politician
1935 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1935 - Barbara Bostock, American actress
1936 - Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957
1940 - Phil Ochs, American folk singer (d. 1976)
1941 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1942 - Rufus, French actor
1943 - Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
1944 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)
1944 - Tim Reid, American actor
1944 - Alvin Lee, English singer/guitarist (Ten Years After)
1944 - Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist, conservationist and politician
1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
1944 - William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants
1945 - Elaine Joyce, American actress
1946 - Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster
1946 - Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
1948 - Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Nancy Kyes, American actress
1949 - Sebastian, Danish musician
1956 - Tom Lawless, American baseball player
1957 - Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
1957 - John Gulager, American film director
1957 - Kevin McHale, American basketball player
1958 - Limahl, English singer (Kajagoogoo)
1960 - Michelangelo Signorile, American writer
1960 - Mike Lookinland, American actor
1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1961 - Matthew Waterhouse, English actor
1961 - Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
1962 - Jill Talley, American actress
1963 - Jennifer Beals, American film actress
1963 - Til Schweiger, German actor
1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
1965 - Chito Martínez, Belizean baseball player
1965 - Jessica Steen, American actress
1966 - Chuckii Booker, American singer, musician and producer
1966 - Robert MacNaughton, American stage and screen actor
1966 - Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier
1966 - Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player
1967 - Criss Angel, Illusionist,Actor, Musician, etc.
1967 - Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor
1969 - Richard Hammond, English television presenter
1969 - Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player
1969 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
1969 - Villano IV, Mexican professional wrestler
1970 - Tyson Beckford, American model
1971 - Tiffany Towers, Canadian adult film actress
1971 - Amy Locane, American actress
1971 - Liz Cho, American television reporter
1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress
1972 - Rosa Blasi, American actress
1972 - Warren Sapp, American football player
1973 - Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor
1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
1974 - Jake Plummer, American football player
1974 - Mikko Paananen, Finnish bassist (HIM)
1975 - Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer
1975 - Jon Smith, British writer
1977 - Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
1978 - Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
1979 - Kevin Devine, American musician
1979 - Paola Rey, Colombian actress
1980 - Marla Sokoloff, American actress
1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
1982 - Vincent Accardi, American musician
1982 - Maurice Williams, American basketball player
1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
1983 - Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher
1985 - Lady Sovereign, English musician
1985 - Neil Kilkenny, English-born Australian footballer
1985 - Gary Cahill, English footballer
1986 - Ryan Babel, Dutch Footballer
1987 - Karim Benzema, French footballer
1987 - Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
1988 - Paulina Gretzky, American-born Canadian actress and model
1988 - Peter Winn, English footballer
1991 - Declan Galbraith, English singer

Famous Births on 18 Dec

Famous Births on 18 Dec

1507 - ÅŒuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
1602 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)
1610 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (d. 1688)
1620 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)
1661 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
1662 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)
1707 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (d. 1788)
1725 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (d. 1791)
1825 - Charles Griffin (general), American general (d. 1876)
1835 - Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922)
1847 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (d. 1903)
1851 - Graciano Lopez Jaena, Filipino hero, orator and satirist (d. 1896)
1856 - Sir J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
1860 - Edward MacDowell, American composer and pianist (d. 1908)
1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914)
1870 - Saki, English writer (d. 1916)
1873 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (d. 1957)
1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss-born painter (d. 1940)
1886 - Ty Cobb, American baseball player (d. 1961)
1888 - Dame Gladys Cooper, English actress (d. 1971)
1888 - Robert Moses, American public works official (d. 1981)
1890 - Edwin Armstrong, American inventor (d. 1954)
1897 - Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952)
1904 - George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
1907 - Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984)
1908 - Paul Siple, American Antarctic explorer (d. 1969)
1910 - Abe Burrows, American playwright (d. 1985)
1911 - Jules Dassin, American film director (d. 2008)
1912 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American General (d. 2002)
1913 - Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987)
1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
1913 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
1916 - Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)
1916 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born American trade unionist (d. 2008)
1917 - Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005)
1927 - Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General
1927 - Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
1928 - Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal
1929 - Gino Cimoli, American baseball player
1930 - Moose Skowron, American baseball player
1931 - Alison Plowden, English historian (d. 2007)
1931 - Allen Klein, American rock and roll business manager
1932 - Roger Smith, American actor
1933 - Arthur Leigh Allen, Suspected Zodiac serial killer (d. 1992)
1934 - Boris Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut
1935 - Jacques Pépin, French chef
1936 - Malcolm Kirk, English professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1938 - Roger E. Mosley, American actor
1938 - Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (d. 2005)
1938 - Chas Chandler, English musician (The Animals) (d. 1996)
1939 - Michael Moorcock, English author
1939 - Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Bramwell Morrison, member of Sharon, Lois & Bram
1941 - Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpeter and composer
1942 - Harvey Atkin, Canadian actor
1943 - Alan Rudolph, American film director and screenwriter
1943 - Keith Richards, English guitarist (The Rolling Stones)
1945 - Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977)
1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
1948 - Bill Nelson, English musician (Be Bop Deluxe)
1948 - Laurent Voulzy, French singer and composer
1949 - David A. Johnston, American volcanologist, first to report 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (d. 1980)
1950 - Leonard Maltin, American film critic
1950 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne) (d. 2002)
1950 - Gillian Armstrong, Australian film director
1953 - Elliot Easton, American guitarist (The Cars)
1953 - Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
1955 - Ray Liotta, American actor
1956 - Ron White, American comedian
1960 - Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
1961 - Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater
1962 - Renaldo Lapuz, Filipino-American Singer
1963 - Karl Dorrell, American football coach
1963 - Pauline Ester, French singer
1963 - Allan Kayser, American actor
1963 - Charles Oakley, American basketball player
1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
1964 - Robson Green, English actor and singer
1964 - Don Beebe, American football player
1964 - "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, American professional wrestler
1965 - Mick Collins, American musician (The Gories, The Dirtbombs)
1965 - Tommy Davidson, American actor
1966 - Makiko Esumi, Japanese actress
1966 - Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator)
1967 - Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
1968 - Casper Van Dien, American actor
1968 - Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer
1968 - Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
1969 - Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
1969 - Justin Edinburgh, English footballer
1969 - Akira Iida, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Johnny Yeo, English artist
1970 - Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler
1970 - Victoria Pratt, Canadian actress and fitness model
1970 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
1970 - DMX, American rapper and actor
1970 - Cowboy Troy, American rapper
1970 - Anthony Catanzaro, American fitness model
1971 - Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
1971 - Noriko Matsueda, Japanese composer
1971 - Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
1972 - Raymond Herrera, American drummer (Fear Factory) and businessman
1972 - DJ Lethal, Latvian-born American DJ (House of Pain, Limp Bizkit)
1974 - Peter Boulware, American football player
1974 - Kari Byron, artist and television personality
1974 - Euroboy, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1974 - Bill Duggan, American television actor and host
1975 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler
1975 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese comedian
1976 - Koyuki, Japanese actress and model
1977 - José Acevedo, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Ali Curtis, American soccer player
1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
1979 - Carlos, Portuguese footballer
1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer
1982 - Dave Luetkenhoelter, American bassist (Kutless)
1983 - Steph Jones, American R&B singer
1983 - Darren Carter, English footballer
1985 - Tara Conner, 2006 Miss USA
1985 - Hana Soukupová, Czech supermodel
1987 - Miki Andō, Japanese figure skater
1987 - Ayaka, Japanese singer
1987 - Fernando Jara, Panamanian-American jockey
1989 - Ashley Benson, American actress
1989 - Ashley Slanina-Davies, Hollyoaks actress

Famous Births on 17 Dec

Famous Births on 17 Dec

1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
1619 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
1632 - Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
1685 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
1706 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
1749 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
1830 - Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
1835 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (d.
1847 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
1853 - Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
1859 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
1873 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
1883 - Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
1887 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
1887 - Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)
1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
1892 - Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
1893 - Erwin Piscator, German film director (d. 1966)
1894 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
1900 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
1903 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
1903 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
1904 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (d. 1999)
1905 - Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
1905 - Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
1906 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (d. 1994)
1908 - Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1910 - Sy Oliver, American jazz arranger and bandleader (d. 1988)
1915 - André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
1922 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
1923 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
1926 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1927 - Richard Long, American actor (d. 1974)
1929 - Jacqueline Hill, English actress (d. 1993)
1929 - William Safire, American columnist
1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
1930 - Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher
1931 - Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
1934 - Ray Wilson, English footballer
1935 - George Lindsey, American actor
1935 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball coach (d. 1999)
1936 - Tommy Steele, English singer and actor
1937 - Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996)
1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
1937 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
1938 - Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
1938 - Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
1939 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
1940 - KÃ¥re Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
1942 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
1943 - Mary Brunner, American former "Manson Family" member
1943 - Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
1944 - Bernard Hill, English actor
1944 - Jack L. Chalker, American novelist (d. 2005)
1945 - Ernie Hudson, American actor
1945 - Chris Matthews, American journalist
1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, English author
1946 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
1947 - Wes Studi, American actor
1949 - Paul Rodgers, English singer (Free; Bad Company)
1949 - Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
1950 - Laurence F. Johnson, American educator
1951 - Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
1951 - Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet athlete
1953 - Samuel Hadida, film distributor
1953 - Barry Livingston, American actor
1953 - Bill Pullman, American actor
1955 - Brad Davis, American basketball player
1956 - Peter Farrelly, American film director
1957 - Earl Hudson, American drummer (Bad Brains)
1958 - Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M.)
1960 - Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
1961 - Sara Dallin, English singer (Bananarama)
1962 - Paul Dobson, English footballer
1962 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (d. 2007)
1962 - Rocco Mediate, American golfer
1964 - Michele Tafoya, American sportscaster
1964 - Joe Wolf, American basketball player
1964 - Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player
1964 - Ginger, English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)
1965 - Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Tracy Byrd, American musician
1966 - Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
1966 - Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
1967 - Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and musician
1967 - Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
1968 - Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
1969 - Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist
1969 - Chris Mason, English darts player
1970 - Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor
1971 - Alan Khan, South African radio disc jockey
1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
1972 - Laurie Holden, American actress
1972 - John Abraham, Indian actor
1973 - Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
1973 - Paula Radcliffe, English runner
1974 - Duff Goldman, American chef
1974 - Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
1974 - Sarah Paulson, American actress
1975 - Bree Sharp, American singer/songwriter
1975 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born actress
1975 - Nick Dinsmore (Eugene), American professional wrestler
1976 - Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater
1976 - Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born porn actress
1976 - Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer
1976 - Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
1976 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
1977 - Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
1978 - Chase Utley, American baseball player
1978 - Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer (Three Days Grace)
1978 - Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer
1978 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
1978 - Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican baseball player
1979 - Jaimee Foxworth, American actress and porn star
1979 - Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard)
1979 - Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
1980 - Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
1980 - Eli Pariser, American political activist (MoveOn.org)
1982 - Ryan Moats, National Football League runningback
1982 - Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
1982 - Craig Kielburger, Canadian labour activist
1982 - Josh Barfield, American baseball player
1984 - Andrew Davies, English footballer
1985 - Ryuichi Ogata, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
1986 - Vanessa Zima, American actress
1992 - Thomas Law, British Actor
1992 - Jordan Garrett, American actor
2007 - James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

Famous Births on 16 Dec

Famous Births on 16 Dec

1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (d. 1536)
1584 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)
1614 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)

Famous Births on 15 Dec

Famous Births on 15 Dec

1832 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (Eiffel tower) (d. 1923)
1852 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1908)
1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Polish initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
1860 - Abner Powell, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1904)
1861 - Charles Duryea, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1875 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (d. 1899)
1878 - Hans Carossa, German writer (d. 1956)
1888 - Maxwell Anderson, American writer (d. 1959)
1892 - J. Paul Getty, American oil tycoon (d. 1976)
1896 - Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)
1899 - Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (d. 1978)
1902 - Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
1910 - John H. Hammond, American musician (d. 1987)
1911 - Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991)
1911 - Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979)
1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
1913 - Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (d. 1980)
1913 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (d. 2001)
1916 - Buddy Cole, American pianist (d. 1964)
1916 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1917 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, linguist and writer of Pakistan (d. 2005)
1918 - Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
1919 - Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site (d. 1973)
1920 - Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (d. 2002)
1921 - Alan Freed, American disc jockey (d. 1965)
1923 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist
1923 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (d. 2002)
1923 - Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and statesman
1925 - Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006)
1925 - Sam Pollock, Canadian ice hockey general manager
1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
1928 - Jerry Wallace, American singer
1929 - Barry Harris, American bebop jazz pianist
1930 - Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer
1932 - Jesse Belvin, American musician (d. 1960)
1933 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2001)
1933 - Tim Conway, American actor and comedian
1933 - Bapu, Indian cartoonist, designer and film director
1938 - Billy Shaw, American football player
1939 - Cindy Birdsong, American singer (The Supremes)
1940 - Nick Buoniconti, American football player
1942 - Dave Clark, English musician (The Dave Clark Five)
1943 - Lucien den Arend, Dutch artist
1943 - Kathleen Blanco, American politician
1944 - Jim Leyland, American baseball manager
1944 - Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner (d. 1988)
1945 - Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor
1946 - Art Howe, American baseball player and manager
1948 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d. 1991)
1948 - Melanie Chartoff, American actress
1949 - Don Johnson, American actor
1952 - Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer
1952 - Julie Taymor, American director
1953 - J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer
1955 - Paul Simonon, English bassist (The Clash)
1957 - Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress
1957 - Yuuichi Nagashima, Japanese voice actor
1957 - Mike McAlary, American journalist (d. 1998)
1957 - Mario Marois, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 - Eddy Annys, Belgian high jumper
1960 - Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer
1961 - Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist
1963 - Helen Slater, American actress
1963 - Andrew Luster, Max Factor heir
1966 - Manos Papayiannis, Greek fashion model and actor
1967 - David Howells, English footballer
1967 - Mo Vaughn, American baseball player
1968 - Garrett Wang, American actor
1968 - Osama Ali Maher, Swedish politician
1968 - Javid Hussain, Indian film producer
1969 - Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian wheelchair athlete
1970 - Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey
1970 - Michael Shanks, Canadian actor
1972 - Rodney Harrison, American football player
1972 - Stuart Townsend, Irish actor
1973 - Ryu Seung-wan, South Korean actor and director
1973 - Surya Bonaly, French-born American figure skater
1976 - Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
1976 - Aaron Miles, American baseball player
1976 - Elix Skipper, American professional wrestler
1978 - Jerome McDougle, American football player
1978 - Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist (Epica)
1979 - Adam Brody, American actor
1979 - Eric Young, Canadian professional wrestler
1980 - Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist (Kasabian)
1981 - Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian football player
1981 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)
1981 - Creighton Lovelace, American Baptist minister
1981 - Andy González, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 - Brendan Fletcher, Canadian actor
1981 - Najoua Belyzel, French singer
1982 - George O. Gore II, American actor
1982 - Charlie Cox, English actor
1982 - Borja García, Spanish racing driver
1983 - René Goguen (René Duprée), Canadian professional wrestler
1983 - Ronnie Radke, American singer (Escape the Fate)
1983 - Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
1984 - Joshua Third, British Guitarist in The Horrors.
1984 - Martin Skrtel Slovakian Footballer
1986 - Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian supermodel
1991 - Eunice Cho, American actress
37 - Nero, Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68)

Famous Births on 14 Dec

Famous Births on 14 Dec

1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601)
1625 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)
1631 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
1640 - (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)
1678 - Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
1720 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
1775 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
1775 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
1784 - Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (d. 1806)
1787 - Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)
1791 - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
1794 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
1866 - Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (d. 1934)
1870 - Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950)
1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)
1884 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
1896 - Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993)
1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
1897 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977)
1902 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
1908 - Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer
1908 - Mária Szepes, Hungarian authoress (d. 2007)
1909 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
1911 - Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (d. 1998)
1913 - Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)
1914 - Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)
1914 - Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)
1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
1916 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
1917 - Elyse Knox, American Actress
1917 - June Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2004)
1917 - C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish communist leader
1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
1922 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
1922 - Don Hewitt, American creator of 60 Minutes
1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
1924 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
1925 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1927 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d.1998)
1931 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002)
1932 - Abbe Lane, American singer and actress
1932 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995)
1935 - Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
1938 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
1939 - Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)
1940 - Lex Gold, Scottish football administrator
1941 - Karan Armstrong, American soprano
1941 - Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)
1942 - Zoe Laskari, Greek actress
1943 - R. Emmett Tyrrell, American magazine publisher
1946 - Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1946 - Stan Smith, American tennis player
1946 - Michael Ovitz, American film producer
1946 - Ruth Fuchs, East German athlete
1946 - Patty Duke, American actress
1946 - Jane Birkin, English-born French actress and singer
1947 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
1947 - Linda Sutton, English artist
1948 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
1948 - Kim Beazley, Australian politician
1948 - Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress
1949 - Cliff Williams, English bassist (AC/DC)
1949 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player
1951 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster
1952 - Germain Houde, French Canadian actor
1953 - Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player
1953 - René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer
1953 - Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician
1953 - Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician
1954 - Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut
1954 - Alan Kulwicki, American NASCAR driver (d. 1993)
1954 - James Horan, American actor
1956 - Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier
1957 - Gary Ferris, American author
1958 - Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Waterboys)
1958 - Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues)
1959 - Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
1960 - Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate
1960 - Chris Waddle, English footballer
1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress
1963 - Greg Abbott, English former football player
1963 - Cynthia Gibb, American actress
1965 - Craig Biggio, American baseball player
1965 - Ken Hill, American baseball player
1966 - Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian racecar driver
1966 - Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician
1967 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
1969 - Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
1970 - Nadine Garner, Australian actress
1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
1970 - Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter
1971 - Natascha McElhone, English actress
1972 - Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor
1972 - Marcus Jensen, American baseball player
1973 - Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001)
1973 - Tia Texada, American actress and singer
1973 - Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian soccer player
1974 - Billy Koch, American baseball player
1975 - Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer
1976 - Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter
1976 - André Couto, Portuguese racing driver
1976 - Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer
1977 - KaDee Strickland, American actress
1978 - Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
1978 - Radu Sârbu, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1978 - Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model
1979 - Michael Owen, English footballer
1980 - Frankie J, American singer
1980 - Tata Young, Thai-American singer
1980 - Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Liam Lawrence, English footballer
1981 - Shaun Marcum, American baseball player
1981 - Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler
1981 - Emilie Heymans, Canadian diver
1981 - Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
1982 - Josh Fields, American baseball player
1982 - Steve Sidwell, English footballer
1982 - Anthony Way, English singer and actor
1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
1984 - Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
1985 - Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer
1985 - Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Paul Rabil, professional lacrosse player
1985 - Jakub BÅ‚aszczykowski, Polish footballer
1988 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
1988 - Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress
1989 - Pedro Silva, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Tori Kelly, American singer
1995 - Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria

Famous Births on 13 Dec

Famous Births on 13 Dec

1521 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
1533 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
1553 - King Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
1585 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
1640 - Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
1662 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
1678 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1720 - Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804)
1724 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)
1784 - Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
1804 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1816 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
1836 - Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
1856 - Svetozar Boroević, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)
1860 - Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
1864 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
1867 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)
1870 - Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1871 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
1874 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian-born pianist (d. 1944)
1883 - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (d. 1950)
1887 - Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1887 - George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985)
1897 - Drew Pearson, American journalist (d. 1969)
1902 - Talcott Parsons, American sociologist, (d.1979)
1903 - Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist (d. 1993)
1906 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (d. 1968)
1906 - Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996)
1910 - Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971)
1911 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
1911 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1999)
1913 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002)
1913 - Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998)
1915 - Curd Jürgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982)
1915 - Ross Macdonald, American-born author (d. 1983)
1915 - B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 (d. 1983)
1917 - John Hart, American actor
1919 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942)
1920 - George Shultz, United States Secretary of State 1982-1989
1923 - Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1923 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian
1926 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
1929 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
1930 - Robert Prosky, American actor
1934 - Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer
1935 - Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
1935 - Ken Hall, American football player
1935 - Joe Christopher, American baseball player
1936 - His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan (Aga Khan IV), Imam (leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
1936 - J. C. Martin, American baseball player
1937 - Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player
1938 - Alvin Curran, American composer
1938 - Heino, German folk singer.
1939 - Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (d. 2002)
1941 - John Davidson, American actor and game show host
1942 - Anna Eshoo, American politician
1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player
1943 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002)
1944 - Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor
1945 - Kathy Garver, American actress
1945 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (d. 1977)
1947 - Dave Hamilton, American baseball player
1947 - Darlene Cates, American actress
1948 - Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers)
1948 - Ted Nugent, American guitarist
1948 - Brian Wilson, Scottish politician
1949 - Tom Verlaine, American singer/guitarist of Television
1949 - Randy Owen, lead vocals, rhythm guitar for Alabama
1949 - Paula Wilcox, English actress
1950 - Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa
1950 - Wendie Malick, American actress
1952 - Sylvester Ritter (Junkyard Dog), American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1953 - Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve
1953 - Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player
1953 - Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 - John Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
1954 - Tamora Pierce, American author
1956 - Majida El Roumi, Lebanese singer
1956 - Dale Berra, American baseball player
1957 - Steve Buscemi, American actor
1957 - Morris Day, American singer (The Time)
1957 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
1958 - Lynn-Holly Johnson, American figure skater and actress
1959 - Jim Barrell, American professional wrestler
1959 - Johnny Whitaker, American actor
1960 - Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor
1961 - Gary Zimmerman, former NFL offensive lineman
1961 - Irene Saez, Miss Universe 1981 and Venezuelan politician
1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer
1962 - Roger Ilegems, Belgian track cyclist and road bicycle racer
1962 - Kendra Slewenski, English netballer
1964 - hide, Japanese musician (X Japan) (d. 1998)
1965 - Marko Mäetamm, Estonian artist
1966 - Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker
1966 - Ross Burden, New Zealand celebrity chef
1967 - Jamie Foxx, American actor
1967 - Bo Pelini, American football coach
1968 - Tony Curran, Scottish actor
1969 - Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player
1969 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer (d. 2007)
1973 - Christie Clark, American actress
1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
1974 - Sara Cox, English TV and radio presenter
1975 - Bates Battaglia, National Hockey League player
1975 - Tom DeLonge, American guitarist,(blink-182, Angels & Airwaves)
1975 - Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player
1976 - Josh Fogg, American baseball player
1976 - Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
1976 - Søren Friis, Danish footballer
1977 - Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union footballer
1978 - Ryo Kawakita, Japanese guitarist (Maximum the Hormone)
1978 - BJ Penn, American mixed martial artist
1981 - Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence)
1982 - Dominik Werling, German footballer
1982 - Freddie Weinke, American football player
1982 - Tuka Rocha, Brazilian racing driver
1982 - Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
1982 - Anthony Callea, Australian singer/songwriter
1983 - Matt Deis, American bassist
1983 - Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
1988 - Darcy Blake, Welsh footballer
1989 - Taylor Swift, American singer/songwriter
1991 - Jay Greenberg, American composer
2005 - Prince Aymeric of Belgium
2005 - Prince Nicolas of Belgium

Famous Births on 12 Dec

Famous Births on 12 Dec

1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
1574 - Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James I of England (d. 1619)
1610 - Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
1659 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
1712 - Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d. 1780)
1724 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)
1745 - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1829)
1779 - Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)
1783 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
1786 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
1791 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
1799 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852)
1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d. 1879)
1805 - Henry Wells, Founder of American Express (d. 1878)
1806 - Stand Watie, American Confederate general (d. 1871)
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
1845 - Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
1849 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1920)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
1864 - Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937)
1866 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919)
1870 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (d. 1912)
1875 - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (d. 1953)
1876 - Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (d. 1928)
1887 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974)
1892 - Herman Potočnik aka Hermann Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929)
1893 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973)
1900 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
1902 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)
1903 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (d. 1976)
1903 - Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
1904 - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor and socialite (d. 1981)
1905 - Manès Sperber, Austrian-born writer (d. 1984)
1907 - Roy Douglas, English composer and orchestrator
1909 - Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003)
1914 - Patrick O'Brian, English author (d. 2000)
1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
1918 - Joe Williams, American singer (d. 1999)
1919 - Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (d. 2001)
1919 - Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
1920 - Fred Kida, American comics artist
1923 - Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver
1923 - Bob Barker, American television game show host
1924 - Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City
1925 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer
1925 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (d. 2000)
1927 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
1928 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer
1929 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
1929 - John Osborne, English dramatist (d. 1994)
1930 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006)
1931 - Lionel Blair, English actor and choreographer
1932 - Bob Pettit, American basketball player
1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico
1937 - Buford Pusser, American sheriff (d. 1974)
1938 - Connie Francis, American singer
1940 - Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
1940 - Dionne Warwick, American singer
1942 - Peter Sarstedt, British musician
1943 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999)
1943 - Dickey Betts, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
1944 - Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor
1944 - Jean Doré, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal
1945 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (d. 1997)
1946 - Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion
1946 - Paula Wagner, American film executive
1948 - Tom Wilkinson, English actor
1949 - Bill Nighy, English actor
1950 - Rajnikanth, Indian actor
1950 - Billy Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 - Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician
1952 - Cathy Rigby, American gymnast and actress
1953 - Bruce Kulick, American guitarist (Kiss)
1954 - Liz Claman, American television anchor
1955 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek businesswoman
1955 - Eddy Schepers, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist
1957 - Sheila E., American musician
1957 - Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright
1958 - Sheree J. Wilson, American actress
1962 - Tracy Austin, American tennis player
1962 - Mike Golic, American football player
1963 - Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1964 - Haywood Jeffries, American football player
1964 - Sabu, American professional wrestler
1965 - Will Carling, English rugby union footballer
1966 - Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist
1966 - Kouichi Nagano, Japanese voice actor
1967 - Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer
1967 - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer
1967 - John Randle, American football player
1968 - Laurie Williams, Jamaican West Indies cricketer (d. 2002)
1968 - Rory Kennedy, American documentarian
1968 - Kate Humble, English television presenter
1969 - Carrie Westcott, American model and actress
1970 - Mädchen Amick, American actress
1970 - Jennifer Connelly, American actress
1970 - Regina Hall, American actress
1972 - Hank Williams III, American musician, grandson of Hank Williams
1972 - Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter
1972 - Brandon Teena, American hate crime victim (d. 1993)
1972 - Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1972 - Wilson Kipketer, Danish middle-distance runner
1972 - Nicky Eaden, English footballer
1973 - William Hutton, American engineer
1973 - Walter Otta, Argentine footballer
1974 - Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer
1975 - Mayim Bialik, American actress
1975 - Craig Moore, Australian footballer
1976 - Lloyd Owusu, English/Ghanaian football player
1976 - Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness)
1977 - Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet Playboy models
1977 - Bridget Hall, American supermodel
1977 - Orlando Hudson, American baseball player
1977 - Colin White, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Evren Genis, Turkish composer
1978 - Jennifer Rovero Playboy Playmate
1978 - Louis (artist), Korean singer ("Jung Hwa Ban Jum")
1978 - Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress
1979 - Garrett Atkins, American baseball player
1979 - Nate Clements, American football player
1979 - Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist
1981 - Stephen Warnock, English footballer
1981 - Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
1981 - Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier
1981 - Pedro Ríos, Spanish footballer
1981 - Shane Costa, American baseball player
1981 - Ronnie Brown, American football player
1982 - Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player
1983 - Katrina Elam, American singer
1984 - Daniel Agger, Danish footballer
1986 - Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
1986 - Thomas Wansey, English actor
1990 - Victor Moses, an English footballer of Nigerian descent
1991 - Daniel Magder, Canadian actor

Famous Births on 11 Dec

Famous Births on 11 Dec

1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
1566 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
1680 - Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer (d. 1736)
1709 - Louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742)
1712 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1764)
1725 - George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)
1761 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)
1781 - Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)
1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)
1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1810 - Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)
1830 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (d. 1872 on his birthday)
1838 - John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (d. 1915)
1843 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1856 - Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (d. 1918)
1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)
1873 - Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
1880 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1882 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1882 - Fiorello La Guardia, American statesman (d. 1947)
1883 - Victor McLaglen, English-born American actor (d. 1959)
1889 - Walter Knott, American farmer (d. 1981)
1890 - Carlos Gardel, tango singer (d. 1935)
1890 - Mark Tobey, American painter (d. 1976)
1904 - Marge, American cartoonist (d 1993)
1905 - Robert Henriques, English writer (d. 1967)
1905 - Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1994)
1908 - Elliott Carter, American composer
1909 - John Wyer, English sports car racing team manager (d.1989)
1910 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937)
1911 - Val Guest, English film director (d. 2006)
1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989)
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (d. 2008)
1919 - Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
1922 - Grace Paley, American writer (d. 2007)
1922 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
1922 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1923 - Betsy Blair, American actress
1925 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (d. 1984)
1927 - John Buscema, American comics artist (d. 2002)
1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
1930 - Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress
1931 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress
1931 - Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru (d. 1990)
1932 - Anne Heywood, English actress
1933 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician
1935 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1935 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
1935 - Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
1936 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
1937 - Jim Harrison, American writer
1938 - Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer
1938 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
1939 - Tom Hayden, American politician and activist
1939 - Thomas McGuane, American writer
1940 - David Gates, American musician (Bread)
1941 - Max Baucus, American politician, senior senator of Montana
1941 - J.P. Parise, Canadian ice hockey player
1942 - Donna Mills, American actress
1943 - John Kerry, American politician
1944 - Teri Garr, American film actress
1944 - Jon Garrison, American tenor
1944 - Lynda Day George, American actress
1944 - Brenda Lee, American singer
1948 - Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek composer
1950 - Christina Onassis, American heiress (d. 1988)
1953 - Bess Armstrong, American actress
1954 - Jermaine Jackson, American singer
1954 - Guðlaugur Kristinn Ã"ttarsson, Icelandic engineer
1954 - Santiago Creel, Mexican politician
1956 - Lani Brockman, Playwright
1958 - Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1959 - Lisa Gastineau, American reality show star
1960 - Rachel Portman, English film composer
1961 - Marco Pierre White, English chef and restaurateur
1962 - Ben Browder, American actor
1962 - Paul Haslinger, Austrian-born composer
1962 - Nele Karajlić, Bosnian singer
1963 - Jon Brion, American musician/record producer
1964 - Justin Currie, Scottish singer and songwriter
1964 - Carolyn Waldo, Canadian synchronized swimmer
1964 - Cosy Sheridan, American singer
1964 - David Schools, American musician (Widespread Panic)
1964 - John Mark Karr, American who claimed involvement in JonBenét Ramsey case
1964 - Michel Courtemanche, Quebec comedian
1966 - Gary Dourdan, American actor
1966 - Leon Lai, Hong Kong Cantonese singer/actor
1967 - DJ Yella, American DJ and music producer (N.W.A)
1967 - Mo'Nique, American actress/comedienne
1969 - Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster
1969 - Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer
1969 - Sean Grande, American sportscaster
1969 - Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer
1971 - Willie McGinest, NFL Linebacker
1972 - Dana Macsim, Romanian television news reporter
1972 - Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer
1972 - Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1973 - Mos Def, American rapper and actor
1974 - Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
1974 - Ben Shephard, English TV personality
1975 - Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
1975 - Tomoka Kurotani, Japanese actress
1976 - Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player
1977 - Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
1979 - Rider Strong, American actor
1980 - Arya, Indian actor
1981 - Nikki Benz, Ukraine-born Canadian pornographic actress
1981 - Hamish Blake, Australian comedian
1981 - Paul Medhurst, Australian rules footballer
1981 - Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
1981 - Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Yoh Miyamori, Japanese Musician (Orange Range)
1984 - Leighton Baines, English footballer
1987 - Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
1988 - Murugan Thiruchelvam, English chess prodigy
1988 - Tim Southee, New Zealand Cricket Player
1993 - Gina Miele, American singer and actress.

Famous Births on 10 Dec

Famous Births on 10 Dec

1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1751 - George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
1804 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
1815 - Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
1820 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877)
1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
1824 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and preacher (d. 1905)
1827 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
1851 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian, (d. 1931)
1855 - Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
1870 - Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
1870 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
1878 - Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)
1880 - Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
1882 - Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
1884 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
1891 - Sir Harold Alexander, British Army Field Marshal, first Earl of Tunis (d. 1969)
1891 - Nelly Sachs, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1903 - Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
1907 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
1907 - Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998)
1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
1909 - Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)
1911 - Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
1913 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
1913 - Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1918 - Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
1918 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
1920 - Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
1922 - Lucía Hiriart, First Lady of Chile (1974-1990), wife of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet
1923 - Harold Gould, American actor
1924 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
1925 - Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
1925 - Carolyn Kizer, American poet
1928 - Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
1928 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000)
1933 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1935 - Terry Allcock, English footballer
1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
1938 - Porter Goss, American politician, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1939 - Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
1941 - Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
1941 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
1941 - Tommy Kirk, American actor
1941 - Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
1944 - Steve Renko, American baseball player
1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet
1947 - Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
1947 - Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1950 - Tom Towles, American actor
1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
1952 - Clive Anderson, English television presenter
1952 - Susan Dey, American actress
1954 - Jack Hues, English musician
1955 - Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
1956 - Tim Kurkjian, American baseball writer and analyst for ESPN
1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
1957 - Paul Hardcastle, English composer and musician
1957 - Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker
1959 - Mark Aguirre, American basketball player
1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
1962 - John de Wolf, former Dutch International footballer
1965 - J Mascis, American musician
1965 - Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
1966 - Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
1969 - Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Brian Nichols, American spree killer
1972 - Dimitri Tikovoi, French-born record producer
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1972 - Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing driver
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1975 - Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
1977 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
1978 - Donna Williams, co-founder of Neopets
1978 - Summer Phoenix, American actress
1978 - Brandon Novak, American skateboarder
1979 - Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
1980 - Ledley King, English footballer
1980 - Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1981 - Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer
1982 - Tim Deegan, Canadian MuchMusic VJ
1982 - Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress
1983 - Patrick Flueger, American actor
1983 - Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
1983 - Zé Kalanga, Angolan footballer
1984 - Jayson Paul, American professional wrestler
1985 - T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
1986 - Matthew Bates, English footballer
1986 - Ryoichi Tsukada, Japanese acrobat
1987 - Gonzalo Higuaín, French-born Argentine footballer
1990 - Giulia Boverio, Italian actress

Famous Births on 9 Dec

Famous Births on 9 Dec

1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1508 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
1561 - Sir Edwin Sandys, English-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629)
1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1579 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
1594 - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1751 - Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1787 - John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
1806 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
1837 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
1847 - George Grossmith, English actor (d. 1912)
1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1868 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
1882 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
1887 - Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958)
1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966)
1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
1895 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
1897 - Hermione Gingold, English actress (d. 1987)
1898 - Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
1900 - Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977)
1901 - Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
1904 - Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
1906 - Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
1911 - Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
1912 - Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
1914 - Frances Reid, American actress
1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
1917 - James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (d. 1987)
1917 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
1919 - William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
1922 - Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991)
1925 - Dina Merrill, American actress
1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
1928 - André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor
1929 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1930 - Buck Henry, American actor
1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
1933 - Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)
1933 - Monique Miller, French Canadian actress
1933 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
1934 - Dame Judi Dench, English actress
1934 - Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998)
1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
1938 - David Houston, American country singer (d. 1993)
1938 - Deacon Jones, American football player
1941 - Dan Hicks, American musician
1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
1942 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
1943 - Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician
1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist
1944 - Neil Innes, English singer (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles)
1945 - Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
1945 - Michael Nouri, American actor
1946 - Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
1948 - Dennis Dunaway, American musician
1948 - Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director
1949 - Tom Kite, American golfer
1949 - Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
1950 - Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer
1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor
1952 - Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
1953 - World B. Free, American basketball player
1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
1954 - Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian
1955 - Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
1958 - Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
1958 - Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)
1960 - Dobroslav Paraga,Croatian politician and editor
1960 - Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player
1960 - Terry Moran, American TV reporter
1961 - David Anthony Higgins, American actor
1961 - Joe Lando, American actor
1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
1963 - Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer
1963 - Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1965 - Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant
1965 - Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
1966 - Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
1966 - Toby Huss, American actor
1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
1967 - Jason Dozzell, English footballer
1967 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
1968 - Kurt Angle, American wrestler
1968 - Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
1968 - Dave Harold, English snooker player
1969 - Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1969 - Allison Smith, American actress
1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
1971 - Petr Nedvěd, Czech ice hockey player
1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
1974 - Wendy Dillinger, American female soccer player and coach
1974 - Canibus, American rapper
1976 - Chris Booker, American baseball player
1977 - Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
1977 - Shayne Graham, American football player
1977 - Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
1978 - Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
1979 - Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
1980 - Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
1981 - Mardy Fish, American tennis player
1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress
1982 - Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
1982 - Vincent Accardi, American guitarist Brand New
1982 - Nathalie De Vos, Belgian athlete
1983 - Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
1983 - Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
1990 - LaFee, German singer

Famous Births on 8 Dec

Famous Births on 8 Dec

1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)
1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757)
1699 - Maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-born British physiologist and botanist (d. 1799)
1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874)
1815 - Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905)
1816 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896)
1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author and Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, American author and folklorist (d. 1908)
1861 - Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (d. 1938)
1861 - Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944)
1861 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (d. 1947)
1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)
1864 - Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
1865 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (d. 1963)
1865 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
1874 - Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951)
1886 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
1890 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (d. 1959)
1894 - James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (d. 1961)
1894 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
1899 - John Qualen, Canadian actor (d. 1987)
1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
1902 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)
1908 - John A. Volpe, 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation (d. 1994)
1909 - Gratien Gélinas, French Canadian playwright, actor, director and producer (d. 1999)
1911 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
1911 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
1913 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
1918 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
1919 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997)
1922 - Jean Ritchie, American folk singer
1922 - Lucian Freud, English painter
1923 - Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
1925 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz organist (d. 2005)
1925 - Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (d. 2000)
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1927 - Ferdie Pacheco, the "Fight Doctor"
1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut
1930 - Julian Critchley, British politician (d. 2000)
1930 - Maximilian Schell, Austrian-born Swiss actor, film director, and author
1931 - Bob Arum, American boxing promoter
1933 - Flip Wilson, American comedian (d. 1998)
1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
1936 - David Carradine, American actor
1937 - James MacArthur, American actor
1937 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004)
1939 - Soko Richardson, American rhythm and blues drummer. (d. 2004)
1939 - Red Berenson, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 - Jerry "The Iceman" Butler, American soul singer
1939 - Sir James Galway, Northern Irish flautist
1940 - Brant Alyea, American baseball player
1941 - Sir Geoff Hurst, English footballer
1941 - Randall "Duke" Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman
1941 - Bob Brown, American football player
1941 - Ed Brinkman, American baseball player
1943 - Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1943 - Mary Woronov, American actress
1945 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
1946 - Sharmila Tagore, Indian Actress
1946 - John Rubinstein, American actor, composer, director
1947 - Gregg Allman, American musician
1947 - Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi writer
1949 - Robert Sternberg, Proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
1949 - Mary Gordon, American writer
1949 - Nancy Meyers, American film director, producer and screenwriter
1949 - Ray Shulman, English musician
1950 - Dan Hartman, American musician (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994)
1950 - Tim Foli, American baseball player
1950 - Rick Baker, American film makeup artist
1951 - Bill Bryson, American author
1951 - Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1952 - Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister
1953 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992)
1953 - Norman Finkelstein, American professor, activist
1953 - Roy Firestone, American sports announcer
1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
1954 - Harold Hongju Koh, Korean-American Dean of Yale Law School
1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, American musician
1957 - Phil Collen, English guitarist (Def Leppard)
1958 - Bird McIntyre, Thai pop singer, musician
1960 - Lim Guan Eng, Secretary-General of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party (DAP)
1961 - Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator, and attorney
1962 - Marty Friedman, American guitarist
1963 - Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
1964 - James Blundell, Australian country singer
1964 - Sandy Burnett, English record producer
1964 - Teri Hatcher, American actress
1965 - Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress
1966 - Jeff Tremaine, American television and film director
1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician
1967 - Jeff George, American football player
1967 - Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1967 - Darren Sheridan, English footballer and manager
1968 - Michael Cole, American professional wrestling commentator
1968 - Mike Mussina, American baseball player
65 BC - Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)

Famous Births on 7 Dec

Famous Births on 7 Dec

1302 - Azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339)
1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)
1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist (d. 1680)
1637 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
1670 - John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
1724 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1751)
1764 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)
1784 - Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
1801 - Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862)
1803 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (d. 1829)
1810 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
1810 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)
1823 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (d. 1891)
1847 - George Grossmith, British actor and writer (d. 1912)
1860 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
1862 - Paul Adam, French novelist (d. 1920)
1863 - Felix Calonder
1863 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945)
1863 - Richard Sears, American department store founder (d. 1914)
1873 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947)
1879 - Rudolf Friml, American composer (d. 1972)
1887 - Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (d. 1964)
1888 - Hamilton Fish III, American politician (d. 1991)
1888 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (d. 1957)
1891 - Fay Bainter, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1968)
1903 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
1904 - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)
1905 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 1973)
1907 - Fred Rose, Canadian communist politician (d. 1983)
1910 - Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978)
1910 - Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian musician
1912 - Daniel Jones, British composer (d. 1993)
1915 - Eli Wallach, American actor
1916 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
1920 - Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002)
1920 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian fighter pilot (d. 1944)
1920 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist
1921 - Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader
1923 - Ted Knight, American actor
1924 - John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver (d. 2005)
1924 - Mário Soares, President of Portugal
1925 - Hernando da Silva Ramos, Brazilian racing driver
1927 - Helen Watts, British contralto
1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
1930 - Hal Smith, American baseball player
1932 - Paul Caponigro, American photographer
1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
1940 - Stan Boardman, English comedian
1940 - Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player
1942 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (d. 1981)
1942 - Alex Johnson, American baseball player
1942 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (d. 2006)
1943 - Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
1943 - Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
1944 - Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker
1944 - Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
1945 - Marion Rung, Finnish singer
1947 - Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player
1947 - Tony Thomas, American TV and film producer
1947 - Johnny Bench, American baseball player
1948 - Gary Morris, American singer and actor
1948 - Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
1949 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
1952 - Georges Corraface, Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
1952 - Susan Collins, American politician, junior senator from Maine
1954 - Mike Nolan, Irish singer (Bucks Fizz)
1954 - Mark Hofmann, American forger and bomber
1955 - Priscilla Barnes, American actress
1955 - John Watkins, Australian politician
1956 - Larry Bird, American basketball player
1957 - Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator
1958 - Tim Butler, English musician (Psychedelic Furs)
1958 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall)
1961 - Lisa Fischer, American R&B singer
1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan actress
1963 - Theo Snelders, former Dutch footballer
1964 - Peter Laviolette, head coach Carolina Hurricanes
1964 - Roberta Close, Brazilian model
1964 - Tadao Uematsu, Japanese racing driver
1965 - Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer
1965 - Jeffrey Wright, American actor
1966 - C. Thomas Howell, American actor
1966 - Shinichi Itoh, Japanese motorcycle racer
1967 - Tino Martinez, American baseball player
1968 - Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1970 - Carmen Campuzano, Mexican actress and fashion model
1971 - Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
1971 - Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress
1972 - Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
1972 - Tammy Lynn Sytch, American professional wrestler
1973 - Terrell Owens, American football player
1973 - Fabien Pelous, French international rugby player
1973 - Damien Rice, Irish musician
1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1974 - Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
1975 - Jamie Clapham, English footballer
1976 - Vanessa Lorenzo, Spanish fashion model
1976 - Alan Faneca, American football player
1976 - Brent Johnson, Canadian football player
1976 - Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
1977 - Eric Chavez, American baseball player
1978 - Frankie J, Mexican-born American singer
1978 - Chad Dukes, Radio Personality
1978 - Shiri Appleby, American actress
1979 - Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
1979 - Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
1979 - Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model
1979 - Lampros Choutos, Greek footballer
1979 - Sara Bareilles, American singer
1980 - John Terry, English footballer
1983 - Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
1984 - Aaron Gray, American basketball player
1984 - Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
1987 - Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer and actor
1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
1988 - Asia Ray Smith, American actress
1989 - Nicholas Hoult, English actor
2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
521 - Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
903 - Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)