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The following 6,945 famous people including celebrities were born in the month of December. A random sample was chosen for each day. Click the    after the name to explore the birth date info. You might also want to browse the filtered celebrity birthdays in December.

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December 1

  • 1923
    Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence  
  • 1926
    Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman (d. 2010)  
  • 1940
    Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)  
  • 1980
    Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer  
  • 1991
    Hilda Melander, Swedish tennis player  

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December 2

  • 1891
    Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator (d. 1969)
  • 1917
    Sylvia Syms, American singer (d. 1992)  
  • 1956
    Steven Bauer, Cuban-American actor and producer  
  • 1980
    Adam Kreek, Canadian rower  
  • 1985
    Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer  

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December 3

  • 1889
    Khudiram Bose, Indian activist (d. 1908)
  • 1895
    Te Ata Fisher, American actress (d. 1995)
  • 1954
    Grace Andreacchi, American-English author, poet, and playwright  
  • 1966
    Monic Hendrickx, Dutch actress  
  • 1983
    Sherri DuPree, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Eisley)  

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December 4

  • 1927
    Barbara Knudson, American actress (d. 2014)  
  • 1940
    Gerd Achterberg, German footballer and manager  
  • 1944
    Anna McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter (Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Mountain City Four)  
  • 1964
    Chelsea Noble, American actress  
  • 1987
    Orlando Brown, American actor and rapper  

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December 5

  • 1687
    Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
  • 1803
    Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet and diplomat (d. 1873)
  • 1891
    Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and academic (d. 1951)
  • 1917
    Ken Downing, English race car driver (d. 2004)  
  • 1969
    Eric Etebari, American actor, director, and producer  

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December 6

  • 1910
    David M. Potter, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1971)  
  • 1927
    Jim Fuchs, American shot putter and discus thrower (d. 2010)  
  • 1970
    Adrian Fenty, American lawyer and politician, 6th Mayor of the District of Columbia  
  • 1971
    Ryan White, American AIDS victim (d. 1990)  
  • 1979
    Yanina González, Paraguayan model, Miss Paraguay 2004  

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December 7

  • 1923
    Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986)  
  • 1943
    Nick Katz, American mathematician and academic  
  • 1949
    James Rivière, Italian sculptor and jeweler  
  • 1958
    Tim Butler, English bass player and songwriter (The Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit Love)  
  • 1978
    Shiri Appleby, American actress, director, and producer  

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December 8

  • 1874
    Ernst Moro, Austrian physician and pediatrician (d. 1951)
  • 1967
    Junkie XL, Dutch keyboard player and producer  
  • 1969
    Steve Van Wormer, American actor  
  • 1979
    Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby player  
  • 1983
    Liu Song, Chinese snooker player  

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December 9

  • 1938
    Deacon Jones, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2013)  
  • 1971
    Petr Nedvěd, Czech-Canadian ice hockey player  
  • 1976
    Bae Soo-bin, South Korean actor  
  • 1981
    Dia Mirza, Indian model, actress, and producer  
  • 1983
    Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer  

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December 10

  • 1870
    Mary Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoléon Charles Bonaparte, 5th Prince of Canino (d. 1947)
  • 1959
    Udi Aloni, American-Israeli director and author  
  • 1981
    Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinean swimmer  
  • 1983
    Xavier Samuel, Australian actor  
  • 1986
    Matthew Bates, English footballer  

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December 11

  • 1712
    Francesco Algarotti, Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1764)
  • 1918
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian soldier and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)  
  • 1943
    Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (Hot Chocolate) (d. 2015)  
  • 1971
    Willie McGinest, American football player and sportscaster  
  • 1974
    Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer  

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December 12

  • 1610
    Basil of Ostrog, Serbian monk and saint (d. 1671)
  • 1949
    Bill Nighy, English actor  
  • 1964
    Reeta Chakrabarti, English journalist  
  • 1966
    Ian Paisley, Jr., Northern Irish politician; Member of Parliament for North Antrim (2010–present)  
  • 1976
    Lloyd Owusu, Ghanaian footballer  

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December 13

  • 1913
    Gerda Christian, German private secretary of Adolf Hitler (d. 1997)  
  • 1920
    George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State  
  • 1948
    Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (d. 1982)  
  • 1965
    Jackie Clune, English actress and singer  
  • 1985
    Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player  

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December 14

  • 1918
    B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014)  
  • 1960
    Don Franklin, American actor  
  • 1965
    Ted Raimi, American actor, director, and screenwriter  
  • 1966
    Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian race car driver  
  • 1969
    Archie Kao, American actor  

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December 15

  • 1924
    Ruhi Sarıalp, Turkish triple jumper (d. 2001)  
  • 1970
    Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey  
  • 1978
    Jerome McDougle, American football player  
  • 1985
    Diogo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer  
  • 1988
    Imbi Hoop, Estonian footballer  

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December 16

  • 1867
    Amy Carmichael, Anglo-Irish missionary and humanitarian in India (d. 1951)
  • 1930
    Bill Young, American sergeant and politician (d. 2013)  
  • 1961
    Jon Tenney, American actor and director  
  • 1975
    Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Billy Talent)  
  • 1981
    Imran Nazir, Pakistani cricketer  

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December 17

  • 1894
    Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
  • 1926
    Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)  
  • 1966
    Valeri Liukin, Kazakh-Russian gymnast and coach  
  • 1984
    Julian Bennett, English footballer  
  • 1988
    Kris Joseph, Canadian basketball player  

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December 18

  • 1946
    Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement (d. 1977)  
  • 1961
    Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater and coach  
  • 1963
    Karl Dorrell, American football player and coach  
  • 1977
    Axwell, Swedish DJ and producer (Swedish House Mafia)  
  • 1989
    Emily Atack, English actress  

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December 19

  • 1924
    Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1989)  
  • 1944
    Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)  
  • 1954
    Jeff Allam, English race car driver  
  • 1966
    Alberto Tomba, Italian skier  
  • 1986
    Zuzana Hejnová, Czech hurdler  

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December 20

  • 1898
    Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and politician, 156th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1973)
  • 1954
    Michael Badalucco, American actor and producer  
  • 1957
    Mike Watt, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Banyan, Minutemen, Dos, The Stooges, and Firehose)  
  • 1959
    Hildegard Körner, German runner  
  • 1982
    David Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Axium and Midwest Kings)  

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December 21

  • 1922
    Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist and voice actor (d. 2005)  
  • 1946
    Christopher Keene, American conductor (d. 1995)  
  • 1955
    Jane Kaczmarek, American actress  
  • 1966
    Martin Bayfield, English rugby player, actor, and stuntman  
  • 1980
    Michele Di Piedi, Italian footballer  

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December 22

  • 1694
    Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and academic (d. 1768)
  • 1925
    Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Turkish footballer and manager (d. 2012)  
  • 1976
    Aya Takano, Japanese author and illustrator  
  • 1982
    Rodney Martin, American sprinter  
  • 1988
    Leigh Halfpenny, Welsh rugby player  

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December 23

  • 1911
    Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)  
  • 1940
    Robert Labine, Canadian politician  
  • 1948
    Jack Ham, American football player and sportscaster  
  • 1968
    Quincy Jones III, English-Swedish songwriter and producer  
  • 1981
    Maritza Correia, Puerto Rican-American swimmer  

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December 24

  • 1904
    Joseph M. Juran, Romanian-American engineer and businessman (d. 2008)  
  • 1944
    Barry Elliot, English actor and screenwriter  
  • 1954
    José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica  
  • 1985
    David Ragan, American race car driver  
  • 1995
    Anett Kontaveit, Estonian tennis player  

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December 25

  • 1874
    Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (d. 1944)
  • 1877
    Noël Bas, French gymnast (d. 1960)
  • 1884
    Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967)
  • 1917
    Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist and politician (d. 2009)  
  • 1961
    Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian political scientist and politician  

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December 26

  • 1909
    Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)  
  • 1930
    Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)  
  • 1955
    Evan Bayh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Indiana  
  • 1959
    Hans Nielsen, Danish motorcycle racer  
  • 1985
    Yu Shirota, Japanese-Spanish actor and singer (D-Boys)  

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December 27

  • 1927
    Nityanand Swami, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttarakhand (d. 2012)  
  • 1952
    Jay Hill, Canadian farmer and politician  
  • 1965
    Salman Khan, Indian actor and singer  
  • 1983
    Cole Hamels, American baseball player  
  • 1985
    Paul Stastny, Canadian-American ice hockey player  

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December 28

  • 1635
    Elizabeth Stuart, English daughter of Charles I of England (d. 1650)
  • 1925
    Milton Obote, Ugandan engineer and politician, 2nd President of Uganda (d. 2005)  
  • 1926
    Donald Carr, German-English cricketer and referee  
  • 1943
    Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian cardinal  
  • 1990
    Zlatko Hebib, Swiss footballer  

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December 29

  • 1911
    Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy (d. 1988)  
  • 1927
    Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (d. 1985)  
  • 1936
    Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and singer  
  • 1978
    Danny Higginbotham, English footballer  
  • 1989
    Left Brain, American rapper and producer (Odd Future and MellowHype)  

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December 30

  • 1913
    Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)  
  • 1931
    John T. Houghton, Welsh physicist and author  
  • 1959
    Tracey Ullman, English-American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter  
  • 1979
    Tommy Clufetos, American drummer  
  • 1982
    Tobias Kurbjuweit, German footballer  

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December 31

  • 1552
    Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
  • 1873
    Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1936)
  • 1880
    George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
  • 1936
    Noel Jan Tyl, American astrologer and author  
  • 1982
    Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer  

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