Births on 10 December
2000s
Jeremie Frimpong
2000
Dutch footballer (born 2000)
1900s
Reiss Nelson
1999
English footballer (born 1998)
Lucia Bronzetti
1998
Italian tennis player (born 1998)
Viktoriia Savtsova
1997
Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer
Joe Burrow
1996
American football player (born 1996)
Kang Daniel
1996
South Korean singer (born 1996)
Tacko Fall
1995
Senegalese basketball player (born 1995)
Richard Kennar
1994
Samoan rugby league footballer
Matti Klinga
1994
Finnish footballer (born 1994)
Carlos Rodón
1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Melissa Roxburgh
1992
Canadian actress (born 1992)
KiKi Layne
1991
American actress (born 1991)
Eric Reid
1991
American football player (born 1991)
Dion Waiters
1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Kazenga LuaLua
1990
Congolese footballer (born 1990)
Sakiko Matsui
1990
Japanese singer and pianist (born 1990)
Wil Myers
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Teyana Taylor
1990
American singer and actress (born 1990)
Shoya Tomizawa
1990
Japanese motorcycle racer
Marion Maréchal
1989
French politician (born 1989)
Tom Sexton (rugby union)
1989
Rugby player
Wilfried Bony
1988
Ivorian footballer (born 1988)
Neven Subotić
1988
Serbian footballer (born 1988)
Gonzalo Higuaín
1987
Argentine footballer (born 1987)
Kahlil Bell
1986
American football player (born 1986)
Charlie Adam
1985
Scottish football manager (born 1985)
Roman Červenka
1985
Czech ice hockey player (born 1985)
Matt Forte
1985
American football player (born 1985)
Trésor Mputu
1985
Congolese footballer
Raven-Symoné
1985
American actress and singer (born 1985)
Lê Công Vinh
1985
Vietnamese footballer (born 1985)
JTG
1984
Professional wrestler
Patrick Flueger
1983
American actor (born 1983)
Xavier Samuel
1983
Australian actor (born 1983)
Claudia Hoffmann
1982
German sprinter (born 1982)
Sultan Kösen
1982
Tallest living man (born 1982)
Taufik Batisah
1981
Singaporean singer-songwriter (born 1981)
Rene Bourque
1981
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1981)
Fábio Rochemback
1981
Brazilian footballer (born 1981)
Sarah Chang
1980
Korean-American violinist (born 1980)
Matt Bentley
1979
American professional wrestler (born 1979)
Iain Brunnschweiler
1979
English footballer and cricketer (born 1979)
Yang Jianping (archer)
1979
Chinese archer (born 1979)
Anna Jesień
1978
Polish hurdler
Summer Phoenix
1978
American actress (born 1978)
Shane Byrne (motorcyclist)
1976
British motorcycle racer
Steve Bradley
1975
American professional wrestler (1975���2008)
Emmanuelle Chriqui
1975
Canadian actress (born 1975)
Josip Skoko
1975
Australian soccer player (born 1975)
Meg White
1974
American musician (born 1974)
Rusty LaRue
1973
American multi-sport athlete (born 1973)
Gabriela Spanic
1973
Venezuelan actress and singer
Donavon Frankenreiter
1972
American musician and surfer
Brian Molko
1972
Singer and musician (born 1972)
Kevin Sharp
1970
American country music singer, author, and motivational speaker (1970-2014)
Bryant Stith
1970
American basketball player
Darren Berry
1969
Australian cricketer and coach (born 1969)
Rob Blake
1969
Canadian ice hockey player and executive (born 1969)
Yōko Oginome
1968
Japanese singer, actress (born 1968)
Rein Ahas
1966
Estonian geographer (1966–2018)
Robin Brooke
1966
New Zealand rugby union player
Mel Rojas
1966
Dominican baseball player (born 1966)
Penelope Trunk
1966
American writer and entrepreneur (born 1966)
Greg Giraldo
1965
American comedian (1965–2010)
J Mascis
1965
American musician
Stephanie Morgenstern
1965
Canadian actress
Stephen Billington
1964
English actor (born 1964)
Stef Blok
1964
Dutch politician (born 1964)
Bobby Flay
1964
American celebrity chef (born 1964)
Edith González
1964
Mexican actress (1964–2019)
Jahangir Khan
1963
Retired Pakistani squash player
Rakhat Aliyev
1962
Kazakh politician (1961–2015)
John de Wolf
1962
Dutch footballer (born 1962)
Mark McKoy
1961
Canadian-Austrian runner (born 1961)
Nia Peeples
1961
American singer, actress, and television host
Kenneth Branagh
1960
British actor and filmmaker (born 1960)
Kōichi Satō (actor)
1960
Japanese actor (born 1960)
Mark Aguirre
1959
American basketball player (born 1959)
Udi Aloni
1959
Israeli filmmaker, writer and artist
Kevin Ash
1959
British motorcycle journalist and author (1959–2013)
Wolf Hoffmann
1959
German guitarist (born 1959)
Cornelia Funke
1958
German author of children's fiction (born 1958)
Kathryn Stott
1958
English pianist
Michael Clarke Duncan
1957
American actor (1957–2012)
Paul Hardcastle
1957
English musician and radio presenter
Prem Rawat
1957
Spiritual leader (born 1957)
Rod Blagojevich
1956
Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009
Roberto Cassinelli
1956
Italian lawyer and politician
Jan van Dijk (footballer)
1956
Dutch footballer and manager
Eudine Barriteau
1954
Grenadian gender and public policy professor (born 1954)
Price Cobb
1954
American racecar driver
Jack Hues
1954
English musician (born 1954)
Chris Bury
1953
American journalist
Clive Anderson
1952
English presenter (born 1952)
Susan Dey
1952
American actress (born 1952)
Greg Mortimer
1952
Australian mountaineer (born 1952)
Greg Laurie
1952
American author and pastor (born 1952)
Paul Varul
1952
Estonian lawyer and politician
Johnny Rodriguez
1951
American singer (1951–2025)
John Boozman
1950
American politician and optometrist (born 1950)
Simon Owen
1950
New Zealand golfer
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
1949
British journalist and author (born 1949)
David Perdue
1949
American politician and diplomat (born 1949)
Dušan Bajević
1948
Bosnian football manager (born 1948)
Jessica Cleaves
1948
American singer and songwriter
Jasuben Shilpi
1948
Indian bronze sculptor
Rasul Guliyev
1947
Azerbaijani Politician and author
Douglas Kenney
1946
American comedy writer (1946–1980)
Mukhtar Altynbayev
1945
Kazakh general and politician (born 1945)
Andris Bērziņš (president)
1944
Latvian businessman and politician
John Birt, Baron Birt
1944
Former Director-General of the BBC
Steve Renko
1944
American baseball player (born 1944)
Ann Gloag
1942
Scottish business woman and activist (born 1942)
Ken Campbell
1941
British actor, director and writer (1941–2008)
Fionnula Flanagan
1941
Irish actress (born 1941)
Tommy Kirk
1941
American actor (1941–2021)
Tommy Rettig
1941
American child actor (1941–1996)
Kyu Sakamoto
1941
Japanese singer and actor (1941–1985)
Dick Bavetta
1939
American basketball referee (born 1939)
Barry Cunliffe
1939
English archaeologist (born 1939)
Bill Dunk
1938
Australian professional golfer
Yuri Temirkanov
1938
Russian conductor (1938–2023)
Howard Smith (director)
1936
American screenwriter and director
Terry Allcock
1935
English footballer and cricketer (1935–2024)
Jaromil Jireš
1935
Czech film director and screenwriter (1935–2001)
Howard Martin Temin
1934
20th-century American geneticist
Philip R. Craig
1933
American novelist (1933–2007)
Mako (actor)
1933
Japanese and American actor (1933–2006)
Peter Baker (footballer, born 1931)
1931
English footballer
Wayne D. Anderson
1930
American college basketball coach
Ray Felix
1930
American basketball player (1930–1991)
Michael Jopling
1930
British politician (born 1930)
Barbara Nichols
1928
American actress (1928–1976)
Bob Farrell (motivational speaker)
1927
American motivational speaker
Danny Matt
1927
Israeli general (1927–2013)
Guitar Slim
1926
American guitarist (1926–1959)
Carolyn Kizer
1925
American writer (1925–2014)
Ken Albers
1924
American singer
Michael Manley
1924
Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972–1980; 1989-1992)
Harold Gould
1923
American actor (1923–2010)
Clorindo Testa
1923
Italian-Argentine architect
Agnes Nixon
1922
American soap opera screenwriter (1922–2016)
Toh Chin Chye
1921
Singaporean politician (1921–2012)
Clarice Lispector
1920
Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer (1920–1977)
Reginald Rose
1920
American playwright and screenwriter (1920–2002)
Alexander Courage
1919
American composer (1919–2008)
Anne Gwynne
1918
American actress (1918–2003)
Anatoly Tarasov
1918
Russian ice hockey player and coach
Walt Arfons
1916
American racing driver
Nicky Barr
1915
Royal Australian Air Force officer
Dorothy Lamour
1914
American actress and singer (1914–1996)
Pannonica de Koenigswarter
1913
British jazz patron and writer (1913–1988)
Morton Gould
1913
American composer and pianist (1913–1996)
Harry Locke
1913
English actor (1912–1987)
Ray Nance
1913
American jazz trumpeter, violinist and singer (1913–1976)
Philip Hart
1912
American lawyer and politician (1912–1976)
Tetsuji Takechi
1912
Japanese theatre and film director (1912–1988)
René Toribio
1912
French politician (1912–1990)
Chet Huntley
1911
American television newscaster (1911–1974)
Ambrosio Padilla
1910
Filipino lawyer, basketball player and politician
Hermes Pan
1909
American dancer and choreographer
Olivier Messiaen
1908
French composer (1908–1992)
Rumer Godden
1907
British author (1907–1998)
Lucien Laurent
1907
French footballer (1907–2005)
Amedeo Nazzari
1907
Italian actor (1907–1979)
Harold Adamson
1906
American lyricist (1906–1980)
Jules Ladoumègue
1906
French middle-distance runner
Antonín Novotný
1904
Leader of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968
Una Merkel
1903
American actress (1903–1986)
1800s
Torsten Bergström
1896
Swedish actor
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
1891
British field marshal; Governor General of Canada (1891–1969)
Arlie Mucks
1891
American athlete (1891–1967)
Nelly Sachs
1891
Jewish German-Swedish writer, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate (1891–1970)
László Bárdossy
1890
Hungarian politician
Ray Collins (actor)
1889
American actor (1889–1965)
Victor McLaglen
1886
British-American actor and boxer (1886–1959)
Elizabeth Baker (economist)
1885
American economist
Marios Varvoglis
1885
Greek composer
Giovanni Messe
1883
Italian field marshal and politician (1883–1968)
Otto Neurath
1882
Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)
Shigenori Tōgō
1882
Japanese politician, war criminal (1882–1950)
C. Rajagopalachari
1878
Indian statesman and writer (1878–1972)
Mohammad Ali Jauhar
1878
Indian Muslim activist (1878–1931)
Jadunath Sarkar
1870
Indian historian
Adolf Loos
1870
Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and theorist of modern architecture
Pierre Louÿs
1870
Belgian writer and poet (1870–1925)
Louis Bolk
1866
Dutch anatomist (1866–1930)
Melvil Dewey
1851
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal system
Emily Dickinson
1830
American poet (1830–1886)
Eugene O'Keefe
1827
George MacDonald
1824
Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905)
César Franck
1822
Belgian-French composer and organist (1822–1890)
Nikolay Nekrasov
1821
Russian poet, critic, publisher (1821–1878)
Ada Lovelace
1815
English mathematician (1815–1852)
Caroline M. Sawyer
1811
American writer (1812–1894)
William Lloyd Garrison
1805
American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)
Joseph Škoda
1805
Austrian surgeon, internist, pathologist and university educator
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
1804
German mathematician (1804–1851)
Before 1800
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
1787
American educator (1787–1851)
María Bibiana Benítez
1783
Puerto Rican writer
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este
1776
Countess von Arco
George Shaw (biologist)
1751
English botanist and zoologist (1751–1813)
Johann Nicolaus Mempel
1713
German musician
Lancelot Blackburne
1658
Archbishop of York from 1724 to 1743
Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole
1654
Italian painter (1654–1719)
Adriaen van Ostade
1610
Dutch painter (1610–1685)
Isaac Beeckman
1588
Dutch philosopher and scientist (1588–1637)
Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours
1489
French nobleman and famed military commander (1489–1512)
Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk
1472
English noblewoman (1472–1481)
Johannes Stöffler
1452
German astronomer
Edmund Mortimer (rebel)
1376
14th/15th-century English nobleman
Chen Shubao
553
Emperor of the Chen dynasty from 582 to 589