Births on 14 December
2000s
Francisco Conceição
2002
Portuguese footballer (born 2002)
Joshua Rush
2001
American actor (born 2001)
1900s
Lonnie Walker IV
1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Kim Ji-woong
1998
South Korean singer and actor (born 1998)
DK Metcalf
1997
American football player (born 1997)
Barbie Ferreira
1996
American actress and model (born 1996)
Raphinha
1996
Brazilian footballer (born 1996)
Li Zijun
1996
Chinese figure skater
Ivan Barbashev
1995
Russian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Calvyn Justus
1995
South African swimmer (born 1995)
Álvaro Odriozola
1995
Spanish footballer (born 1995)
Kuldeep Yadav
1994
Indian cricketer (born 1994)
Antonio Giovinazzi
1993
Italian racing driver (born 1993)
Tori Kelly
1992
American singer-songwriter (born 1992)
Ryō Miyaichi
1992
Japanese footballer (born 1992)
Ben Henry
1991
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Offset (rapper)
1991
American rapper (born 1991)
Robert Covington
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Pedro Botelho (footballer, born 1989)
1989
Brazilian footballer
Sam Burgess
1989
England international dual-code rugby footballer & rugby league coach
Onew
1989
South Korean singer and actor (born 1989)
Nicolas Batum
1988
French basketball player (born 1988)
Nate Ebner
1988
American football and rugby sevens player (born 1988)
Vanessa Hudgens
1988
American actress and singer (born 1988)
Hayato Sakamoto
1988
Japanese baseball player (born 1988)
Kenneth Medwood
1987
Belizean athlete
Jakub Błaszczykowski
1985
Polish footballer (born 1985)
Alex Pennie
1985
Musical artist
Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1985)
1985
Welsh rugby union footballer
Nonami Takizawa
1985
Japanese gravure idol (born 1985)
Chris Brunt
1984
Northern Irish footballer (born 1984)
Rana Daggubati
1984
Indian actor (born 1984)
Ed Rainsford
1984
Zimbabwean Zimbabwean cricket commentator (born 1984)
Jackson Rathbone
1984
American actor and musician
Leanne Mitchell
1983
English singer
Josh Fields (infielder)
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Steve Sidwell
1982
English footballer (born 1982)
Anthony Way
1982
English chorister and classical singer
Amber Chia
1981
Malaysian model, actress and TV host
Johnny Jeter
1981
American professional wrestler (born 1981)
Liam Lawrence
1981
English-born Irish footballer (born 1981)
Shaun Marcum
1981
American baseball player (born 1981)
Thed Björk
1980
Swedish racing driver (born 1980)
Gordon Greer
1980
Scottish footballer
Didier Zokora
1980
Ivorian footballer (born 1980)
Jean-Alain Boumsong
1979
French footballer (born 1979)
Andrei Makrov
1979
Estonian ice hockey player
Kyle Shanahan
1979
American football coach (born 1979)
Sophie Monk
1979
Australian TV presenter (born 1979)
Michael Owen
1979
English footballer (born 1979)
Dean Brogan
1978
Australian rules footballer
Shedrack Kibet Korir
1978
Kenyan runner (born 1978)
Zdeněk Pospěch
1978
Czech footballer (born 1978)
Patty Schnyder
1978
Swiss tennis player (born 1978)
Kim St-Pierre
1978
Canadian ice hockey player
Brendan Nash
1977
Jamaican-Australian cricketer
Jamie Peacock
1977
Great Britain and England international rugby league player
Tammy Blanchard
1976
American actress (born 1976)
Leland Chapman
1976
American bail bondsman and bounty hunter (born 1976)
Sebastien Chaule
1976
Germany international rugby union player
André Couto
1976
Macanese racing driver
Santiago Ezquerro
1976
Spanish footballer
Justin Furstenfeld
1975
American musician (born 1975)
Ben Kay
1975
English and British & Irish Lions rugby union footballer
KaDee Strickland
1975
American actress (born 1975)
Billy Koch
1974
American baseball pitcher (born 1974)
Falk Balzer
1973
German hurdler (born 1973)
Pat Burke
1973
Irish basketball player
Tomasz Radzinski
1973
Polish-born soccer player (born 1973)
Saulius Štombergas
1973
Lithuanian basketball player
Miranda Hart
1972
English actress, comedian and writer (born 1972)
Marcus Jensen
1972
American baseball player and coach (born 1972)
Michaela Watkins
1971
American actress (born 1971)
Anna Maria Jopek
1970
Polish musician (born 1970)
Beth Orton
1970
English musician (born 1970)
Scott Hatteberg
1969
American baseball player (born 1969)
Archie Kao
1969
American actor
Natascha McElhone
1969
British actress (born 1971)
Dave Nilsson
1969
Australian baseball player (born 1969)
Arthur Numan
1969
Dutch footballer (born 1969)
Kelley Armstrong
1968
Canadian writer (born 1968)
Mohamed Saad (actor)
1968
Egyptian actor and comedian (born 1968)
Ewa Białołęcka
1967
Polish fantasy writer
Hanne Haugland
1967
Norwegian high jumper (born 1967)
Fabrizio Giovanardi
1966
Italian racing driver (born 1966)
Carl Herrera
1966
Venezuelan basketball player (born 1966)
Anthony Mason (basketball)
1966
American basketball player (1966–2015)
Bill Ranford
1966
Canadian ice hockey goaltender (born 1966)
Tim Skold
1966
Swedish musician and producer (born 1966)
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
1966
Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015
Craig Biggio
1965
American baseball player (born 1965)
Ken Hill (baseball)
1965
American baseball player (born 1965)
Ted Raimi
1965
American actor (born 1965)
Dino Stamatopoulos
1964
American actor and showrunner (born 1964)
Greg Abbott (footballer)
1963
English footballer & coach (born 1963)
William Bedford (basketball)
1963
American basketball player (born 1963)
Diana Gansky
1963
German track and field athlete (born 1963)
Cynthia Gibb
1963
American actress and model (born 1963)
Patrik Sundström
1961
Swedish ice hockey player
James Comey
1960
American lawyer (born 1960)
Don Franklin
1960
American actor (b. 1960)
Chris Waddle
1960
English footballer (born 1960)
Diane Williams (sprinter)
1960
American sprinter (born 1960)
Bob Paris
1959
American and Canadian writer, actor, civil rights activist and retired pro athlete
Jorge Vaca
1959
Mexican boxer (born 1959)
Mike Scott (Scottish musician)
1958
Scottish songwriter and musician (born 1958)
Spider Stacy
1958
British songwriter
Linda Fabiani
1956
Scottish politician (born 1956)
Hanni Wenzel
1956
Liechtensteiner alpine skier
Jane Crafter
1955
Australian-American professional golfer and golf broadcaster
Jill Pipher
1955
American mathematician (born 1955)
Alan Kulwicki
1954
American racing driver (1954–1993)
Steve MacLean (astronaut)
1954
Canadian astronaut (born 1953)
Vijay Amritraj
1953
Indian sports commentator, actor, and tennis player
Wade Davis (anthropologist)
1953
Canadian anthropologist (born 1953)
René Eespere
1953
Estonian composer
Vangelis Meimarakis
1953
Greek politician
Mikael Odenberg
1953
Swedish politician
John Lurie
1952
American musician, painter and actor
John Brown (basketball, born 1951)
1951
American basketball player (born 1951)
Jan Timman
1951
Dutch chess grandmaster (1951–2026)
Bill Buckner
1949
American baseball player (1949–2019)
David A. Cherry
1949
American artist
Cliff Williams
1949
English musician (born 1949)
Lester Bangs
1948
American music critic (1948–1982)
Kim Beazley
1948
Australian politician (born 1948)
Boudewijn Büch
1948
Dutch writer and television presenter
Peeter Kreitzberg
1948
Estonian politician (1948–2011)
Dee Wallace
1948
American actress (born 1948)
Christopher Parkening
1947
American classical guitarist (born 1947)
Dilma Rousseff
1947
President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016
Antony Beevor
1946
English military historian (born 1946)
Jane Birkin
1946
British actress and singer (1946–2023)
John Du Prez
1946
British composer (born 1946)
Patty Duke
1946
American actress (1946–2016)
Ruth Fuchs
1946
East German javelin thrower and politician (1946–2023)
Peter Lorimer
1946
Scottish footballer (1946–2021)
Michael Ovitz
1946
American businessman (born 1946)
Stan Smith
1946
American tennis player (born 1946)
Lynne Marie Stewart
1946
American actress (1946–2025)
Joyce Vincent Wilson
1946
American singer (born 1946)
Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham
1944
British businessman (born 1944)
Denis Thwaites
1944
English footballer (1944–2015
Britt Allcroft
1943
British filmmaker (1943–2024)
Tommy McAvoy
1943
British politician (1943–2024)
Emmett Tyrrell
1943
20th-century American journalist
Chris Harris (actor)
1942
Mime artist
Dick Wagner
1942
American guitarist (1942–2014)
Karan Armstrong
1941
American operatic soprano (1941–2021)
Ellen Willis
1941
American writer (1941–2006)
Lex Gold
1940
Scottish footballer and administrator
Ann Cryer
1939
British politician (born 1939)
Ernie Davis
1939
American football player (1939–1963)
Leonardo Boff
1938
Brazilian theologian, philosopher writer, and former Catholic priest (born 1938)
Charlie Griffith
1938
West Indian cricketer (born 1938)
Lewis Arquette
1935
American actor (1935–2001)
Lee Remick
1935
American actress (1935–1991)
Shyam Benegal
1934
Indian director and screenwriter (1934–2024)
Charlie Hodge (guitarist)
1934
American singer, vocal coach and musician
George Furth
1932
American librettist, playwright, and actor (1932–2008)
Abbe Lane
1932
American singer and actress (born 1932)
Charlie Rich
1932
American country singer (1932–1995)
Jaun Elia
1931
Pakistani poet (1931–2002)
Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar
1931
Estonian film director
Margaret Bakkes
1930
South African writer
David R. Harris (geographer)
1930
Fred Gray (attorney)
1930
American attorney and activist (born 1930)
Ron Jarden
1929
Rugby player
Richard Cassilly
1927
American opera singer (1927–1998)
Koos Rietkerk
1927
Dutch politician
Raj Kapoor
1924
Indian actor, director and producer (1924–1988)
Gerard Reve
1923
Dutch writer
Nikolay Basov
1922
Soviet physicist
Don Hewitt
1922
American television news producer (1922–2009)
Junior J. Spurrier
1922
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Clark Terry
1920
American swing and bebop trumpeter (1920–2015)
James T. Aubrey
1918
American media executive (1918–1994)
Radu Beligan
1918
Romanian actor (1918–2016)
B. K. S. Iyengar
1918
Indian yoga teacher and author (1918–2014)
C.-H. Hermansson
1917
Swedish politician (1917–2016)
Elyse Knox
1917
American actress (1917–2012)
June Taylor
1917
American choreographer
Shirley Jackson
1916
American novelist, short-story writer (1916–1965)
Dan Dailey
1915
American actor and dancer
Karl Carstens
1914
German politician (1914–1992)
Rosalyn Tureck
1914
Musical artist
Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz
1911
Polish-Greek athlete
Spike Jones
1911
American actor, comedian, musician, bandleader and conductor (1911–1965)
Hans von Ohain
1911
German aerospace engineer (1911–1998)
Edward Tatum
1909
American geneticist (1909–1975)
Morey Amsterdam
1908
American actor and comedian (1908–1996)
Claude Davey
1908
Wales international rugby union footballer
Mária Szepes
1908
Hungarian author (1908–2007)
Virginia Coffey
1904
American social reformer and activist (1904–2003)
Walter Rangeley
1903
English sprinter
Frances Bavier
1902
American actress (1902–1989)
Herbert Feigl
1902
Austrian-American philosopher
Henri Cochet
1901
20th-century French tennis player
Paul of Greece
1901
King of Greece from 1947 to 1964
1800s
DeFord Bailey
1899
American country musician (1899–1982)
Kurt Schuschnigg
1897
Chancellor of Austria from 1934 to 1938
Margaret Chase Smith
1897
American politician (1897–1995)
Jimmy Doolittle
1896
American general and aviator (1896–1993)
George VI
1895
King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
Paul Éluard
1895
French poet (1895–1952)
Alexander Nelke
1894
Estonian-American painter
Xul Solar
1887
Argentine painter, sculptor, writer and inventor of imaginary languages
Jane Cowl
1884
American actress and dramatist
Manolis Kalomiris
1883
Greek classical composer
Morihei Ueshiba
1883
Founder of Aikido
Katherine MacDonald
1881
American actress (1891–1956)
Karl Renner
1870
Austrian statesman (1870–1950)
Roger Fry
1866
English painter and critic (1866–1934)
Louis Marshall
1856
American lawyer and Jewish leader (1856–1929)
Daniel De Leon
1852
Curaçaoan-American unionist and socialist (1852–1914)
Mary Tappan Wright
1851
American novelist
Daniel H. Reynolds
1832
Confederate States Army brigadier general
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
1824
French painter (1824–1898)
Abraham Hochmuth
1816
Hungarian rabbi
Before 1800
Erastus Corning
1794
American politician and businessman (1794–1872)
Charles Wolfe
1791
Irish poet
Maria Szymanowska
1789
Polish composer and pianist (1789–1831)
Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily
1784
First wife of Ferdinand VII (1784–1806)
Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon
1777
Irish politician (1777–1839)
Philander Chase
1775
American bishop, educator, and pioneer (1775–1852)
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
1775
Royal Navy officer, politician and mercenary (1775–1860)
Jan Antonín Koželuh
1738
Czech composer (1738–1814)
Capel Bond
1730
English organist and composer
Justus Möser
1720
German jurist and social theorist (1720–1794)
Daniel Neal
1678
English historian (1678–1743)
Aphra Behn
1640
English playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
Anne Conway (philosopher)
1631
English philosopher (1631–1679)
Barthélemy d'Herbelot
1625
French orientalist (1625–1695)
John Kemény (prince)
1607
Hungarian aristocrat
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge
1599
English politician (1599–1668)
Tycho Brahe
1546
Danish astronomer (1546–1601)
Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia
1332
Margrave of Meissen
Emperor Go-Suzaku
1009
Emperor of Japan from 1036 to 1045