Births on 18 December
2000s
Syd Hartha
2002
Filipino singer-songwriter
Giuliano Simeone
2002
Argentine footballer (born 2002)
Billie Eilish
2001
American singer-songwriter (born 2001)
Jalen Johnson
2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
Jayden Daniels
2000
American football player (born 2000)
Korapat Kirdpan
2000
Thai actor, model and singer (born 2000)
Travon Walker
2000
American football player (born 2000)
1900s
Ronald Acuña Jr.
1997
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1997)
Alex DeBrincat
1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Barbora Krejčíková
1995
Czech tennis player (born 1995)
Lim Na-young
1995
South Korean actress (born 1995)
Gerard Gumbau
1994
Spanish footballer (born 1994)
Natália Kelly
1994
American-Austrian singer (born 1994)
Byron Buxton
1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Thomas Lam
1993
Finnish footballer (born 1993)
Ryan Crouser
1992
American track and field athlete (born 1992)
Bridgit Mendler
1992
American actress, singer and entrepreneur (born 1992)
Marcus Butler
1991
English YouTuber and model (born 1991)
Victor Hedman
1990
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1990)
Sierra Kay
1990
American singer-songwriter and model
Ashley Benson
1989
American actress (born 1989)
Lizzie Deignan
1988
English track and road racing cyclist
Seth Doege
1988
American football player and coach (born 1988)
Brianne Theisen-Eaton
1988
Canadian athlete (born 1988)
Imad Wasim
1988
Pakistani cricketer
Miki Ando
1987
Japanese figure skater (born 1987)
Chris Carter (infielder)
1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
François Hamelin
1986
Short track speed skater
Usman Khawaja
1986
Australian cricketer (born 1986)
Brian Boyle
1984
American ice hockey player (born 1984)
Paul Harrison (footballer, born 1984)
1984
English footballer
Giuliano Razzoli
1984
Italian alpine skier
Derrick Tribbett
1984
American singer
Andy Fantuz
1983
Canadian football player (born 1983)
Christina Aguilera
1980
American singer and songwriter (born 1980)
Neil Fingleton
1980
English actor and basketball player
Benjamin Watson
1980
American football player (born 1980)
Daniel Cleary
1978
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1978)
Ali Curtis
1978
American soccer player and executive (born 1978)
Josh Dallas
1978
American actor (born 1978)
Katie Holmes
1978
American actress (born 1978)
Axwell
1977
Swedish DJ, remixer and record producer (born 1977)
Claudia Gesell
1977
German middle-distance runner
Randy Houser
1975
American country music singer and songwriter
Sia
1975
Australian singer and songwriter (born 1975)
Trish Stratus
1975
Canadian professional wrestler (born 1975)
Peter Boulware
1974
American football player (born 1974)
Knut Schreiner
1974
Norwegian guitarist
Fatuma Roba
1973
Ethiopian long-distance runner
Anzhela Balakhonova
1972
Ukrainian pole vaulter (born 1972)
Raymond Herrera
1972
American drummer
DJ Lethal
1972
Latvian-American disc jockey
Lawrence Wong
1972
Prime Minister of Singapore since 2024
Barkha Dutt
1971
Indian television journalist and author
Noriko Matsueda
1971
Japanese composer
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
1971
Spanish former tennis player (born 1971)
Norman Brown (guitarist)
1970
American jazz guitarist and singer (born 1962)
DMX
1970
American rapper (1970–2021)
Lucious Harris
1970
American basketball player (born 1970)
Yannis Ploutarchos
1970
Greek singer and songwriter (born 1970)
Rob Van Dam
1970
American professional wrestler (born 1970)
Jonathan Yeo
1970
British artist (born 1970)
Santiago Cañizares
1969
Spanish footballer
Justin Edinburgh
1969
English association football player and manager (1969–2019)
Akira Iida
1969
Japanese racing driver
Mario Basler
1968
German football player (born 1968)
Rachel Griffiths
1968
Australian actress (born 1968)
Alejandro Sanz
1968
Spanish musician (born 1968)
Casper Van Dien
1968
American actor (born 1968)
Mille Petrozza
1967
German guitarist and singer (born 1967)
Toine van Peperstraten
1967
Dutch sports journalist
Gianluca Pagliuca
1966
Italian footballer
Shawn Christian
1965
American actor
Manolo Peña
1965
Spanish footballer
Stone Cold Steve Austin
1964
American professional wrestler and actor (born 1964)
Don Beebe
1964
American football player and coach (born 1964)
Greg D'Angelo
1963
American drummer
Karl Dorrell
1963
American football player and coach (born 1963)
Pierre Nkurunziza
1963
President of Burundi from 2005 to 2020
Charles Oakley
1963
American basketball player-coach (born 1963)
Brad Pitt
1963
American actor (born 1963)
Brian Orser
1961
Canadian figure skater
Lalchand Rajput
1961
Indian cricketer and coach
Leila Steinberg
1961
American poet (born 1961)
Angie Stone
1961
American singer and actress (1961–2025)
Kazuhide Uekusa
1960
Japanese economist (born 1960)
Naoko Yamano
1960
Japanese musician
Geordie Walker
1958
British guitarist (1958–2023)
Julia Wolfe
1958
American composer (born 1958)
Jonathan Cainer
1957
British astrologer (1957–2016)
T. K. Carter
1956
American actor (1956–2026)
Ron White
1956
American comedian (born 1956)
Vijay Mallya
1955
Indian businessman and politician (born 1955)
Bogusław Mamiński
1955
Polish long-distance runner (born 1955)
John Booth (motor racing)
1954
English Formula One team executive
Ray Liotta
1954
American actor (1954–2022)
Willi Wülbeck
1954
German middle-distance runner
Kevin Beattie
1953
English footballer (1953–2018)
Elliot Easton
1953
American guitarist (born 1953)
John Leventhal
1952
American musician, producer and songwriter
Bobby Jones (basketball, born 1951)
1951
American basketball player (born 1951)
Gillian Armstrong
1950
Australian film director (born 1950)
Randy Castillo
1950
American drummer
Sarath Fonseka
1950
Sri Lankan army officer, Field Marshal and politician
Lizmark
1950
Mexican professional wrestler (1950 – 2015)
Leonard Maltin
1950
American film critic and film historian (born 1950)
David A. Johnston
1949
American volcanologist (1949–1980)
George T. Johnson
1948
American basketball player (1948)
Bill Nelson (musician)
1948
Musical artist
Mimmo Paladino
1948
Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker
Laurent Voulzy
1948
Musical artist
Leonid Yuzefovich
1947
Russian writer (born 1947)
Steve Biko
1946
South African anti-apartheid activist (1946–1977)
Steven Spielberg
1946
American filmmaker (born 1946)
Jean Pronovost
1945
Canadian ice hockey player
Crispian Steele-Perkins
1944
Musical artist
Bobby Keys
1943
American saxophonist (1943–2014)
Keith Richards
1943
English guitarist (born 1943)
Alan Rudolph
1943
American film director and screenwriter
Lenore Blum
1942
USA computer scientist and mathematician
Bobby Keyes (rugby league)
1942
Australian rugby league footballer (1942–2022)
Sam Andrew
1941
American rock musician, singer-songwriter (1941–2015)
Wadada Leo Smith
1941
American trumpeter and composer
Joan Wallach Scott
1941
American historian (born 1941)
Ilario Castagner
1940
Italian footballer and manager (1940–2023)
John Cooper (hurdler)
1940
British athlete (1940–1974)
Pedro Jirón
1939
Nicaraguan footballer
Michael Moorcock
1939
English writer, editor, critic (born 1939)
Harold E. Varmus
1939
American scientist (born 1939)
Chas Chandler
1938
English musician (1938–1996)
Joel Hirschhorn
1938
American songwriter (1937–2005)
Nancy Ryles
1937
American politician
Malcolm Kirk
1936
English professional wrestler & rugby league player (1935–1987)
Rosemary Leach
1935
British actress (1935–2017)
Jacques Pépin
1935
French-American chef
Marc Rich
1934
American commodities trader (1934–2013)
Boris Volynov
1934
Russian former cosmonaut (born 1934)
Lonnie Brooks
1933
American blues singer and guitarist (1933–2017)
Norm Provan
1932
Australian rugby league footballer and coach (1932–2021)
Roger Smith (actor)
1932
American actor, film producer and screenwriter (1932-2017)
Allen Klein
1931
American businessman best known for managing The Beatles and Rolling Stones (1931–2009)
Alison Plowden
1931
English historian and biographer
Gene Shue
1931
American basketball player and coach (1931–2022)
Bill Thompson (television host)
1931
American television personality (1931–2014)
Bill Skowron
1930
American baseball player (1930–2012)
Gino Cimoli
1929
American baseball player (1929–2011)
Józef Glemp
1929
Polish cardinal
Mirza Tahir Ahmad
1928
Ahmadiyya spiritual leader (1928–2003)
Harold Land
1928
American jazz saxophonist (1928–2001)
Ramsey Clark
1927
66th United States Attorney General (1927–2021)
Roméo LeBlanc
1927
Governor General of Canada from 1995 to 1999
Edwin Bramall
1923
British Army officer (1923–2019)
Jack Brooks (American politician)
1922
American politician (1922–2012)
Esther Lederberg
1922
American microbiologist (1922–2006)
Robert Leckie (author)
1920
United States Marine and author (1920–2001)
Ossie Davis
1917
American actor, director, writer, and activist (1917–2005)
Douglas Fraser
1916
American labor leader (1916–2008)
Betty Grable
1916
American actress and pin-up girl (1916–1973)
Alfred Bester
1913
American science fiction author (1913–1987)
Willy Brandt
1913
Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974
Ray Meyer
1913
American basketball player and coach, college athletics administrator
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
1912
World War II pilot & first African-American US Air Force general officer (1912–2002)
Jules Dassin
1911
American film director (1911–2008)
Abe Burrows
1910
American writer, director and humorist (1910–1985)
Eric Tindill
1910
New Zealand sportsman (1910–2010)
Celia Johnson
1908
English actress (1908–1982)
Paul Siple
1908
American explorer and geographer (1908–1968)
Bill Holland
1907
American racing driver (1907–1984)
Lawrence Lucie
1907
American jazz guitarist
George Stevens
1904
American filmmaker (1904–1975)
1800s
Peter Wessel Zapffe
1899
Norwegian philosopher (1899–1990)
Fletcher Henderson
1897
American jazz pianist and bandleader (1897–1952)
Gerald Barry (British Army officer)
1896
English army officer and cricketer (1896–1977)
Edwin Howard Armstrong
1890
American radio-frequency engineer and inventor (1890–1954)
Gladys Cooper
1888
British actress (1888–1971)
Robert Moses
1888
American urban planner (1888–1981)
Bhikhari Thakur
1887
Founder of Bhojpuri Song
Ty Cobb
1886
American baseball player (1886–1961)
Emil Starkenstein
1884
Czech-Jewish pharmacologist
Richard Maury
1882
Paul Klee
1879
Swiss-German painter (1879–1940)
Joseph Stalin
1878
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
Matt McGrath
1875
American athlete
Francis Burton Harrison
1873
American-Filipino politician (1873–1957)
Saki
1870
British writer (1870–1916)
Edward Willis Redfield
1869
American painter
Foxhall P. Keene
1867
American thoroughbred race horse owner (1867–1941)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
1863
Austrian archduke (1863–1914)
Lionel Monckton
1861
British composer (1861–1924)
Edward MacDowell
1860
American composer (1860–1908)
J. J. Thomson
1856
British physicist (1856–1940)
Henrietta Edwards
1849
Canadian women's rights activist (1849–1931)
Augusta Holmès
1847
French composer (1847–1903)
Lyman Abbott
1835
Theologian, editor, author
Charles Griffin
1825
Union Army general
John S. Harris
1825
American politician (1825–1906)
Mariano Ignacio Prado
1825
President of Peru variously in the 1800s
John Hall (New Zealand politician)
1824
Premier of New Zealand from 1879 to 1882
James Watney
1800
British brewer
Before 1800
Jean-Baptiste Rey
1734
French conductor and composer
Johann Salomo Semler
1725
German church historian, biblical commentator and critic
Charles Wesley
1707
English Methodist and hymn writer (1707–1788)
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
1662
17th/18th-century Scottish duke and politician
Christopher Polhem
1661
Swedish inventor and industrialist (1661–1751)
Countess Johanna Magdalena of Hanau-Lichtenberg
1660
Christina, Queen of Sweden
1626
Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1654
John Hull (merchant)
1624
English-born merchant, silversmith and politician
Heinrich Roth
1620
Germany missionary (1620–1668)
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange
1610
French philologist (1610–1688)
Simonds d'Ewes
1602
English politician
William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
1590
Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi
1552
Moroccan polygraph
Ōuchi Yoshitaka
1507
16th-century daimyo in Japan
Philipp von Hutten
1505
German explorer
Sebald Heyden
1499
German musicologist, cantor, theologian, hymn-writer and religious poet
Sophie of Mecklenburg (1481–1503)
1481
Duchess of Mecklenburg by birth and by marriage Electoral Princess of Saxony
Richard Olivier de Longueil
1406
French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal