Births on 11 December
2000s
Onyeka Okongwu
2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
1900s
Matthew Tkachuk
1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Hailee Steinfeld
1996
American actress and singer (born 1996)
Abbi Grant
1995
Scottish footballer (born 1995)
Yalitza Aparicio
1993
Mexican actress (born 1993)
Tiffany Alvord
1992
American singer and songwriter (born 1992)
Malcolm Brogdon
1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Alexa Demie
1990
American actress
Kellie Harrington
1989
Irish boxer (born 1989)
Tim Southee
1988
New Zealand cricketer (born 1988)
Violetta Bock
1987
German politician (born 1987)
Clifton Geathers
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Alex Russell (actor)
1987
Australian actor (born 1987)
Miranda Tapsell
1987
Australian actress (born 1987)
Roy Hibbert
1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Karla Souza
1985
Mexican actress (born 1985)
Leighton Baines
1984
English footballer (born 1984)
Sandra EcheverrĂa
1984
Mexican actress
James Ellsworth (wrestler)
1984
American professional wrestler
Xosha Roquemore
1984
American actress
Roman Harper
1982
American football player (born 1982)
Pablo PĂ©rez Companc
1982
Argentine racing driver
Rebekkah Brunson
1981
American basketball player and coach (born 1981)
Jason Kennedy (TV personality)
1981
American entertainment journalist
Jeff McComsey
1981
Paul Medhurst
1981
Australian rules footballer, born 1981
Javier Saviola
1981
Argentine footballer (born 1981)
Adi Keissar
1980
Israeli poet
Kristjan Kitsing
1980
Estonian basketball player
Colleen Hoover
1979
American writer (born 1979)
Valdis Mintals
1979
Estonian pair skater
Rider Strong
1979
American actor (born 1979)
Roy Wood Jr.
1978
American comedian, and actor (born 1978)
Mark Streit
1977
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1977)
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
1976
American basketball player (born 1976)
Yujiro Shirakawa
1976
Japanese actor and rikishi (born 1976)
Gerben de Knegt
1975
Cyclo-cross cyclist (born 1975)
Maarten Lafeber
1974
Dutch professional golfer (born 1974)
Rey Mysterio
1974
American professional wrestler (born 1974)
Lisa Ortiz
1974
American voice actress
Ben Shephard
1974
English television personality (born 1974)
Gete Wami
1974
Ethiopian long-distance runner
Yasiin Bey
1973
American rapper (born 1973)
Daniel Alfredsson
1972
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1972)
Sami Al-Jaber
1972
Saudi Arabian footballer (born 1972)
Murray Goodwin
1972
Zimbabwean cricketer
Andriy Husin
1972
Ukrainian footballer and coach (1972–2014)
Willie McGinest
1971
American football player (born 1971)
Victoria Fuller (model)
1970
American actress
Viswanathan Anand
1969
Indian chess grandmaster (born 1969)
Stig Inge Bjørnebye
1969
Norwegian footballer (born 1969)
Max Martini
1969
American actor (born 1969)
Alessandro Melli
1969
Italian footballer (born 1969)
Emmanuelle Charpentier
1968
French microbiologist, biochemist and Nobel laureate
Fabrizio Ravanelli
1968
Italian football player and manager
Peter Kelamis
1967
Australian actor
Mo'Nique
1967
American comedian and actress (born 1967)
Chris Shepherd
1967
British animator, writer, and director
Katy Steding
1967
American basketball player and coach (born 1967)
Gary Dourdan
1966
American actor
Erik Honoré
1966
Musical artist
Göran Kropp
1966
Swedish adventurer (1966–2002)
Leon Lai
1966
Hong Kong singer and actor (born 1966)
Jay Bell
1965
American baseball player and coach (born 1965)
Gavin Hill
1965
NZ international rugby footballer
Glenn Lazarus
1965
Australian rugby league footballer and coach, and politician
Giannis Ragousis
1965
Greek economist and politician
Justin Currie
1964
Scottish musician (born 1964)
Dave Schools
1964
American musician (born 1964)
Carolyn Waldo
1964
Canadian synchronized swimmer
Mario Been
1963
Dutch footballer and manager
Mark Greatbatch
1963
New Zealand cricketer
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
1963
German tennis player
John Lammers (footballer)
1963
Dutch football manager (born 1963)
Nigel Winterburn
1963
English footballer (born 1963)
Ben Browder
1962
American actor, writer and film director
Dave King (singer)
1961
American singer (born 1961)
Steve Nicol
1961
Scottish footballer and manager (born 1961)
Macky Sall
1961
President of Senegal from 2012 to 2024
Marco Pierre White
1961
English chef and restaurateur (born 1961)
Anders Eldebrink
1960
Swedish ice hockey player
Chris Hughton
1958
Irish football manager (born 1958)
Tom Shadyac
1958
American film director (born 1958)
Nikki Sixx
1958
American musician (born 1958)
Peter Bagge
1957
American cartoonist (born 1957)
Lani Brockman
1956
American theater actress and director
Andrew Lansley
1956
British politician (born 1956)
Gene Grossman
1955
American economist
Stu Jackson
1955
American basketball player, coach, executive
Ray Kelvin
1955
Founder and former chief executive of Ted Baker
Christian Sackewitz
1955
German footballer
Brad Bryant
1954
American professional golfer (born 1954)
Sylvester Clarke
1954
Barbadian cricketer (1954–1999)
Santiago Creel
1954
Mexican politician
Jermaine Jackson
1954
American singer and songwriter (born 1954)
GuĂ°laugur Kristinn Ă“ttarsson
1954
Icelandic musician (born 1954)
Bess Armstrong
1953
American actress (born 1953)
Mazlan Othman
1951
Malaysian astrophysicist (born 1951)
Ria Stalman
1951
Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
Christina Onassis
1949
Greek businesswoman, socialite, and heiress to the Onassis fortune (1950–1988)
Stamatis Spanoudakis
1948
Greek classical composer
Shinji Tanimura
1948
Japanese singer-songwriter (1948–2023)
Rhoma Irama
1946
Indonesian dangdut singer (born 1946)
Rick McCosker
1946
Australian cricketer (born 1946)
Diana Palmer (author)
1946
American romance novelist
Teri Garr
1944
American actress (1944–2024)
Jon Garrison
1944
American tenor (born 1944)
Lynda Day George
1944
American actress (born 1944)
Michael Lang (producer)
1944
American concert promoter and record producer (1944–2022)
Brenda Lee
1944
American singer (born 1944)
John Kerry
1943
American politician and diplomat (born 1943)
Anna Carteret
1942
British actress (born 1942)
Max Baucus
1941
American politician (born 1941)
J. P. Parisé
1941
Canadian ice hockey player, coach (1941–2015)
Rogier van Otterloo
1941
Dutch composer and conductor
J. Frank Wilson
1941
American singer
David Gates
1940
American musician (born 1940)
Donna Mills
1940
American actress
Tom Hayden
1939
American activist (1939–2016)
Thomas McGuane
1939
American writer (born 1939)
Enrico Macias
1938
Algerian-French musician (born 1938)
McCoy Tyner
1938
American jazz pianist (1938–2020)
Jim Harrison
1937
American poet, novelist, and essayist (1937–2016)
Hans van den Broek
1936
Dutch politician and diplomat (1936–2025)
Taku Yamasaki
1936
Japanese politician (born 1936)
Pranab Mukherjee
1935
President of India from 2012 to 2017
Elmer Vasko
1935
Canadian ice hockey player
Salim Durani
1934
Afghan-born Indian cricketer (1934–2023)
Nene Pimentel
1933
President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2000 to 2001
Enrique BermĂşdez
1932
Nicaraguan Contra leader (1932–1991)
Keith Waldrop
1932
American poet, translator and professor (1932–2023)
Ernie Beck
1931
American basketball player (1931–2024)
Ronald Dworkin
1931
American legal philosopher (1931–2013)
Rita Moreno
1931
Puerto Rican singer, dancer, and actress (born 1931)
Pierre Pilote
1931
Canadian ice hockey player (1931–2017)
Rajneesh
1931
Indian mystic (1931–1990)
Chus Lampreave
1930
Spanish actress
Jean-Louis Trintignant
1930
French actor (1930–2022)
Axel Anderson
1929
German actor (1929–2012)
Subhash Gupte
1929
Indian cricketer
John Buscema
1927
American comic book artist (1927–2002)
Big Mama Thornton
1926
American blues singer (1926–1984)
Aaron Feuerstein
1925
American businessman (1925–2021)
Paul Greengard
1925
American neuroscientist (1925–2019)
James Sullivan (city manager)
1925
American city manager
Doc Blanchard
1924
American football player and coach (1924–2009)
Betsy Blair
1923
American actress (1923–2009)
Lillian Cahn
1923
American fashion designer (1923–2013)
Morrie Turner
1923
American cartoonist
Grigoris Bithikotsis
1922
Greek folk singer and songwriter
Dilip Kumar
1922
Indian actor (1922–2021)
Maila Nurmi
1922
American actress and television personality (1922–2008)
Grace Paley
1922
American short story author and poet (1922–2007)
Ilmar Laaban
1921
Estonian poet and literary critic
Liz Smith (actress)
1921
English actress (1921–2016)
Mary Ivy Burks
1920
American environmental activist
Denis Jenkinson
1920
English motorsports journalist (1920–1996)
Cliff Michelmore
1919
English television presenter (1919–2016)
Marie Windsor
1919
American actress (1919–2000)
Clinton Adams
1918
American artist (1918–2002)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918
Soviet-Russian author and dissident (1918–2008)
Elena Garro
1916
Mexican writer (1916-1998)
PĂ©rez Prado
1916
Cuban bandleader and mambo musician (1916–1989)
Jean Marais
1913
French actor, writer, director and sculptor (1913–1998)
Carlo Ponti
1912
Italian film producer (1912–2007)
Val Guest
1911
British director and screenwriter (1911–2006)
Naguib Mahfouz
1911
Egyptian writer (1911–2006)
Qian Xuesen
1911
Chinese rocket scientist (1911–2009)
Mildred Cleghorn
1910
Chiricahua Apache leader, educator, and artist from Oklahoma, U.S.
Ronald McKie
1909
Australian novelist (1909–1991)
Elliott Carter
1908
American composer (1908–2012)
Manoel de Oliveira
1908
Portuguese film director, screenwriter and racing driver (1908–2015)
Hákun Djurhuus
1908
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1963–1967)
Amon Göth
1908
Austrian military officer and war criminal (1908–1946)
Robert Henriques
1905
Gilbert Roland
1905
American actor (1905–1994)
Marge (cartoonist)
1904
American cartoonist
HermĂna TĂ˝rlová
1900
Czech animator (1900–1993)
Gerd Arntz
1900
German artist
1800s
Julio de Caro
1899
Argentine composer, musician, and conductor
Ronald Skirth
1897
Conscientious objector of the First World War
Leo Ornstein
1893
American composer and pianist (1895–2002)
Arnold Majewski
1892
Finnish soldier
Carlos Gardel
1890
Argentine singer, songwriter, actor and tango artist (1890–1935)
Mark Tobey
1890
American painter
Walter Knott
1889
Knott's Berry Farm founder (1889–1981)
Piet Ooms
1884
Dutch swimmer
Subramania Bharati
1882
Indian writer, poet, and Independence activist
Max Born
1882
German–British theoretical physicist (1882–1970)
Fiorello La Guardia
1882
American politician (1882–1947)
Frank Tarrant
1880
Australian cricketer (1880–1951)
Yehuda Leib Maimon
1875
Israeli politician (1875–1962)
Josip Plemelj
1873
Slovenian mathematician (1873–1967)
René Bull
1872
British illustrator and photographer
Annie Jump Cannon
1863
American astronomer (1863–1941)
Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry
1861
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
1858
Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, playwright, and producer
Georgi Plekhanov
1856
Russian Marxist theorist and philosopher (1856–1918)
Charles Radbourn
1854
American baseball player (1854–1897)
Robert Koch
1843
German physician and bacteriologist (1843–1910)
John Labatt
1838
Canadian businessman (1838–1915)
Webster Paulson
1837
English civil engineer (1837–1887)
Kamehameha V
1830
King of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872
Alfred de Musset
1810
French writer (1810–1857)
Hector Berlioz
1803
French Romantic composer and conductor (1803–1869)
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
1801
German playwright (1801–1836)
Before 1800
David Brewster
1781
British astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
Gian Domenico Romagnosi
1761
Italian philosopher, economist and jurist (1761–1835)
Carl Friedrich Zelter
1758
German composer
George Mason
1725
American Founding Father and Bill of Rights advocate (1725–1792)
Francesco Algarotti
1712
Italian polymath (1712–1764)
Amar Singh Rathore
1613
Subahdar of Nagaur
HĹŹ Mok
1595
Korean scholar-politician (1596–1682)
Manuel Cardoso (composer)
1566
Portuguese composer and organist
Pope Leo X
1475
Head of the Catholic Church from 1513 to 1521
Ashikaga Yoshihisa
1465
Military ruler of Japan from 1465 to 1489
Eberhard I, Duke of WĂĽrttemberg
1445
Count of WĂĽrttemberg