Births on 13 December
2000s
Maddox Batson
2009
American singer and songwriter
Brock Bowers
2002
American football player (born 2002)
Jayden Goodwin
2001
Australian cricketer (born 2001)
Simona Waltert
2000
Swiss tennis player (born 2000)
1900s
Marina Bassols Ribera
1999
Spanish tennis player (born 1999)
Gleyber Torres
1996
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1996)
Emma Corrin
1995
English actor (born 1995)
Danielle Collins
1993
American tennis player (born 1993)
Jamal Fogarty
1993
Australian rugby league footballer
Dave Leduc
1991
Canadian-Burmese Lethwei fighter (born 1991)
Vladimir Tarasenko
1991
Russian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Fletcher Cox
1990
American football player (born 1990)
Stampy
1990
English YouTuber (born 1990)
Arantxa Rus
1990
Dutch tennis player (born 1990)
Hellen Obiri
1989
Kenyan middle- and long- distance runner
Katherine Schwarzenegger
1989
American writer (born 1989)
Taylor Swift
1989
American singer-songwriter (born 1989)
Rickie Fowler
1988
American professional golfer (born 1988)
James Holmes (mass murderer)
1987
American mass murderer (born 1987)
Santi Cazorla
1984
Spanish footballer (born 1984)
Hanna-Maria SeppÀlÀ
1984
Finnish swimmer
Laura Hodges
1983
Australian basketball player (born 1983)
Dan Hamhuis
1982
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)
Ricky Nolasco
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Amy Lee
1981
American musician (born 1981)
Cameron Douglas
1978
American actor
Tom DeLonge
1975
American rock musician (born 1975)
James Kyson
1975
South Korean and American actor (born 1975)
Matthew LeCroy
1975
American baseball player & coach (born 1975)
Matti KĂ€rki
1972
Swedish singer
Scott Sattler
1971
Australian rugby league footballer
Sergei Fedorov
1969
Russian ice hockey player (born 1969)
Jamie Foxx
1967
American comedian and actor (born 1967)
Petra Wimmer
1965
Austrian politician (born 1965)
KriĆĄjÄnis KariĆĆĄ
1964
Prime Minister of Latvia from 2019 to 2023
Rex Ryan
1962
American football coach and analyst (born 1962)
Gary Zimmerman
1961
American football player (born 1961)
Richard Dent
1960
American football player and coach (born 1960)
Johnny Whitaker
1959
American actor (born 1959)
Steve Buscemi
1957
American actor and director (born 1957)
Morris Day
1957
American singer (born 1956)
Phil Hubbard
1956
American basketball player and coach
Ben Bernanke
1953
American economist (born 1953)
Bob Gainey
1953
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1953)
Junkyard Dog
1952
American professional wrestler (1952â1998)
Larry Kenon
1952
American basketball player (born 1952)
Wendie Malick
1950
American actress (born 1950)
Jeff Baxter
1948
American guitarist (born 1948)
Lillian Board
1948
British runner (1948â1970)
Ted Nugent
1948
American rock musician (born 1948)
Herman Cain
1945
American businessman (1945â2020)
Howard Brenton
1942
English playwright (born 1942)
Ferguson Jenkins
1942
Canadian baseball pitcher (born 1942)
Sanjaya Lall
1940
Gus Johnson (basketball)
1938
American basketball player (1938â1987)
Ron Taylor (baseball)
1937
Canadian baseball player (1937â2025)
Aga Khan IV
1936
Islamic Imam, 1957â2025
J. C. Martin (baseball)
1936
American baseball player (born 1936)
TĂŒrkan Saylan
1935
Turkish medical doctor
Richard D. Zanuck
1934
American film producer (1934â2012)
Paul Bracq
1933
Vehicle Designer
Ida Vos
1931
Dutch writer
Christopher Plummer
1929
Canadian actor (1929â2021)
Solomon Feferman
1928
American philosopher and mathematician
James Wright (poet)
1927
American poet (1927â1980)
Dick Van Dyke
1925
American actor and comedian (born 1925)
Philip W. Anderson
1923
American theoretical physicist (1923â2020)
Larry Doby
1923
American baseball player (1923â2003)
Turgut DemiraÄ
1921
Turkish film producer
George Shultz
1920
American economist, diplomat and statesman (1920â2021)
Hans-Joachim Marseille
1919
German fighter pilot (1919â1942)
Leonard Weisgard
1916
American writer
John Vorster
1915
South African politician (1915â1983)
Alan Bullock
1914
British historian (1914â2004)
Larry Noble (actor)
1914
British actor (1914â1993)
Archie Moore
1913
American professional boxer (1913â1998)
Luiz Gonzaga
1912
Brazilian recording artist, songwriter, singer (1912-1989)
Trygve Haavelmo
1911
Norwegian economist and Nobel Laureate (1911â1999)
Kenneth Patchen
1911
American poet and novelist (1911-1972)
Elizabeth Alexander (scientist)
1908
British-born radio astronomer
Plinio CorrĂȘa de Oliveira
1908
Brazilian intellectual (1908â1995)
Van Heflin
1908
American actor (1908â1971)
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
1906
Duchess of Kent (1906â1968)
Laurens van der Post
1906
South African writer (1906â1996)
Ann Barzel
1905
American writer, critic and lecturer (1905â2007)
Ella Baker
1903
African-American civil rights activist (1903â1986)
Carlos Montoya
1903
Spanish flamenco musician (1903â1993)
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
1902
Greek politician
Talcott Parsons
1902
American sociologist (1902â1979)
Olev Roomet
1901
Estonian musician (1901â1987)
Jonel Perlea
1900
Romanian conductor
1800s
Albert Aalbers
1897
Dutch architect (1897â1961)
Drew Pearson (journalist)
1897
American journalist (1897â1969)
LucĂa SĂĄnchez Saornil
1895
Spanish poet, anarchist, feminist (1895â1970)
George PĂłlya
1887
Hungarian mathematician (1887â1985)
Alvin York
1887
American soldier (1887â1964)
Annie Dale Biddle Andrews
1885
American mathematician (1885â1940)
Aimilios Veakis
1884
Greek actor
Belle da Costa Greene
1883
American librarian (1879â1950)
Jane Edna Hunter
1882
African-American social worker (1882â1971)
Josef Lhévinne
1874
Russian pianist and teacher (1874â1944)
Emily Carr
1871
Canadian artist and writer (1871â1945)
Edward LeSaint
1870
American actor (1871â1940)
Kristian Birkeland
1867
Norwegian scientist (1867â1917)
Emil Seidel
1864
American politician (1864â1947)
Lucien Guitry
1860
French actor (1860â1925)
Svetozar BoroeviÄ
1856
Austro-Hungarian field marshal (1856â1920)
Herman Bavinck
1854
Dutch Calvinist philosopher and theologian (1854â1921)
Franz von Lenbach
1836
German painter (1836â1904)
Mathilde Fibiger
1830
Danish feminist, novelist, and telegraphist
Mary Todd Lincoln
1818
First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Werner von Siemens
1816
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816â1892)
Ana NĂ©ri
1814
Brazilian nurse (1814â1880)
Joseph Howe
1804
Canadian politician (1804â1873)
Before 1800
Heinrich Heine
1797
German poet, writer, and literary critic (1797â1856)
Archduke Louis of Austria
1784
Austrian archduke (1784â1864)
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
1780
German chemist (1780â1849)
James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger
1769
British lawyer, politician and judge (1769â1844)
Franz Aepinus
1724
German mathematician (1724â1802)
Carlo Gozzi
1720
Italian playwright (1720â1806)
Yongzheng Emperor
1678
Emperor of China from 1722 to 1735
Francesco Bianchini
1662
Italian philosopher and scientist
Robert Plot
1640
English naturalist and antiquarian (1640â1696)
William Drummond of Hawthornden
1585
16th/17th-century Scottish poet
Maximilien de BĂ©thune, Duke of Sully
1560
17th-century French soldier and politician
Henry IV of France
1553
King of France from 1589 to 1610
Erik XIV
1533
King of Sweden from 1560 to 1569
Pope Sixtus V
1521
Head of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590
Justus Menius
1499
German Lutheran pastor and Protestant reformer
MartĂn de Azpilcueta
1491
Spanish theologian
Paul Speratus
1484
Swabian Catholic priest
Lucy Brocadelli
1476
Dominican tertiary and stigmatic
Jean Gerson
1363
French scholar, educator, reformer and poet (1363â1429)
Frederick III of Sicily
1272
King of Sicily from 1295 to 1337