Births on 19 December
1900s
King Princess
1998
American musician (born 1998)
Gabriel Magalhães
1997
Brazilian footballer (born 1997)
Fikayo Tomori
1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Franck Kessié
1996
Ivorian footballer (born 1996)
Maudy Ayunda
1994
Musical artist
M'Baye Niang
1994
Senegalese footballer (born 1994)
Young K
1993
South Korean singer (born 1993)
Isiah Koech
1993
Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1993)
Iker Muniain
1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Raphael Spiegel
1992
Swiss footballer (born 1992)
Steven Berghuis
1991
Dutch footballer (born 1991)
Declan Galbraith
1991
English musician (born 1991)
Josh Huestis
1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Keiynan Lonsdale
1991
Australian actor and singer
Sumire Uesaka
1991
Japanese voice actress and singer
Greg Bretz
1990
American snowboarder (born 1990)
Torrey Craig
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Yong Jun-hyung
1989
South Korean musician and actor (born 1989)
Michał Masłowski
1989
Polish footballer (born 1989)
Kosei Miura
1989
Japanese jockey (born 1989)
Hamza Riazuddin
1989
English cricketer
Alexis Sánchez
1988
Chilean footballer (born 1988)
Peter Winn (footballer)
1988
English association football player (born 1988)
Cédric Baseya
1987
Footballer (born 1987)
Karim Benzema
1987
French footballer (born 1987)
Ronan Farrow
1987
American journalist (born 1987)
Calvin Andrew
1986
English footballer (born 1986)
Lauren Boebert
1986
American politician (born 1986)
Ryan Babel
1986
Dutch footballer (born 1986)
Ingrid Burley
1986
Musical artist
Lazaros Christodoulopoulos
1986
Greek football player (born 1986)
Zuzana Hejnová
1986
Czech athlete
Miguel Lopes
1986
Portuguese footballer
Annie Murphy
1986
Canadian actress (born 1986)
Andrea Baldini
1985
Italian fencer (born 1985)
Gary Cahill
1985
English footballer (born 1985)
Neil Kilkenny
1985
Australia international footballer (born 1985)
Sally Kipyego
1985
Kenyan-born American long- and middle-distance runner
Dan Logan
1985
English musician, formerly bassist of Cat the Dog
Lady Sovereign
1985
British rapper (born 1985)
Ian Kennedy
1984
American baseball pitcher (born 1984)
Nektarios Alexandrou
1983
Greek Cypriot international footballer
Casey Crescenzo
1983
American singer-songwriter
Bridget Phillipson
1983
British politician (born 1983)
Laura Pomeroy
1983
Canadian swimmer
Matt Stajan
1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983)
Mo Williams
1982
American basketball player and coach (born 1982)
Grégory Dufer
1981
Belgian footballer
Jake Gyllenhaal
1980
American actor (born 1980)
Marla Sokoloff
1980
American actress (born 1980)
Kevin Devine
1979
American musician (born 1979)
Rafael Soriano
1979
Dominican baseball player (born 1979)
Patrick Casey (writer)
1978
American screenwriter
Jorge Garbajosa
1977
Spanish basketball player (born 1977)
LaTasha Jenkins
1977
American former track and field sprinter (born 1977)
Irina Voronina
1977
Russian-American comedian, actor and model (born 1977)
Elisa (Italian singer)
1977
Italian singer-songwriter (born 1977)
Makis Belevonis
1975
Greek footballer (born 1975)
Brandon Sanderson
1975
American fiction writer (born 1975)
Jeremy Soule
1975
American composer
Olivier Tébily
1975
Ivorian footballer (born 1975)
Dean Treister
1975
Australian rugby league footballer
Eduard Ivakdalam
1974
Indonesian footballer
Joe Jurevicius
1974
American football player (born 1974)
Felipe López (basketball)
1974
Dominican Republic basketball player (born 1974)
Jake Plummer
1974
American football player (born 1974)
Ricky Ponting
1974
Australian cricketer (born 1974)
Mige (musician)
1974
Finnish bassist
Michalis Grigoriou
1973
Greek footballer and manager
Erick Wainaina
1973
Kenyan marathon runner
Zulfiya Zabirova
1973
Russian cyclist
Takashi Sorimachi
1973
Japanese actor and singer (born 1973)
Rosa Blasi
1972
American actress
Alyssa Milano
1972
American actress (born 1972)
Warren Sapp
1972
American football player (born 1972)
Amy Locane
1971
American actress
Karen Pickering
1971
British swimmer (born 1971)
Tyson Beckford
1970
Jamaican-Panamanian American model and actor (born 1970)
Robert Lang (ice hockey)
1970
Czech ice hockey player (born 1970)
Michael Bates (American football)
1969
American athlete (born 1969)
Tom Gugliotta
1969
American basketball player
Richard Hammond
1969
English journalist, television presenter, and author (born 1969)
Nayan Mongia
1969
Indian cricketer
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
1969
Azerbaijani singer, pianist, and composer (born 1969)
Kristy Swanson
1969
American actress (born 1969)
Kristina Keneally
1968
Australian politician (born 1968)
Ken Marino
1968
American actor (born 1968)
Criss Angel
1967
American magician, illusionist and musician (born 1967)
Charles Austin (high jumper)
1967
American high jumper (born 1967)
Chuckii Booker
1966
American singer-songwriter
Rajesh Chauhan
1966
Indian cricketer (born 1966)
Robert MacNaughton
1966
American actor (born 1966)
Alberto Tomba
1966
Italian alpine skier
Eric Weinrich
1966
American ice hockey player (born 1966)
Chito Martínez
1965
Belizean baseball player (1965–2025)
Béatrice Dalle
1964
French actress
Lorie Kane
1964
Canadian professional golfer
Randall McDaniel
1964
American football player (born 1964)
Arvydas Sabonis
1964
Lithuanian basketball player and executive (born 1964)
Jennifer Beals
1963
African-American actress (born 1963)
Til Schweiger
1963
German actor (born 1963)
Gary Fleder
1962
American film director
Scott Cohen (actor)
1961
American actor (born 1961)
Eric Allin Cornell
1961
American physicist
Matthew Waterhouse
1961
English actor, writer (b. 1961)
Reggie White
1961
American football player (1961–2004)
Derrick Jensen (activist)
1960
American ecophilosopher
Michelangelo Signorile
1960
American journalist, author, and talk radio host
Iván Vallejo
1959
Ecuadorian mountaineer
Lisa Wilkinson
1959
Australian television presenter (born 1959)
Steven Isserlis
1958
British cellist (born 1958)
Limahl
1958
English singer (born 1958)
Cyril Collard
1957
French author, filmmaker, composer, musician and actor
Kevin McHale (basketball)
1957
American basketball player (born 1957)
Phil Harris (fisherman)
1956
American nautical captain
Tom Lawless
1956
American baseball player and manager (born 1956)
Shane McEntee (politician)
1956
Irish politician (1956–2012)
Merzbow
1956
Japanese noise project
Lincoln Hall (climber)
1955
Australian mountaineer (1955–2012)
Rob Portman
1955
American lawyer and politician (born 1955)
Jeff Allam
1954
British racing driver (born 1954)
Tim Parks
1954
British writer
Walter Murphy
1952
American composer (born 1952)
Mohammad Reza Aref
1951
Vice President of Iran
Alan Rouse
1951
British mountain climber
Eleanor J. Hill
1950
American government official
Orna Berry
1949
Israeli scientist, high-tech entrepreneur, and businesswoman
Claudia Kolb
1949
American swimmer (born 1949)
Sebastian (singer)
1949
Danish singer, guitarist and composer
Lenny White
1949
American drummer
Ken Brown (ice hockey)
1948
Canadian ice hockey player (1948–2022)
Jimmy Bain
1947
Scottish bassist (1947–2016)
Rosemary Conley
1946
British business woman and writer (born 1946)
Robert Urich
1946
American actor and producer (1946–2002)
John McEuen
1945
American singer-songwriter (born 1945)
William Christie (musician)
1944
American-born French musician (born 1944)
Mitchell Feigenbaum
1944
American mathematical physicist (1944–2019)
Martin Hume Johnson
1944
Richard Leakey
1944
Kenyan conservationist (1944–2022)
Alvin Lee
1944
English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944–2013)
Tim Reid
1944
American actor and film director (born 1944)
Steve Tyrell
1944
US- American singer and record producer (born 1944)
Zal Yanovsky
1944
Canadian folk-rock guitarist (1944–2002)
James L. Jones
1943
Retired US Marine Corps general and National Security Advisor
Elaine Joyce
1943
American actress
Ross M. Lence
1943
Professor of political science at the University of Houston from 1971 to 2006
Cornell Dupree
1942
American R&B/soul jazz guitarist
Gene Okerlund
1942
American wrestling interviewer and announcer (1942–2019)
Lee Myung-bak
1941
President of South Korea from 2008 to 2013
Maurice White
1941
American musician (1941–2016)
Phil Ochs
1940
American singer-songwriter (1940–1976)
Jay Arnette
1938
American basketball player (born 1938)
Tony Taylor (baseball)
1935
Cuban baseball player (1935–2020)
Bobby Timmons
1935
American jazz pianist and composer (1935–1974)
Joanne Weaver
1935
Baseball player
Al Kaline
1934
American baseball player (1934–2020)
Pratibha Patil
1934
President of India from 2007 to 2012
Casper R. Taylor Jr.
1934
American politician (1934–2023)
Kevan Gosper
1933
Australian athlete and administrator (1933–2024)
Christopher Smout
1933
British historian (born 1933)
Salvador Elizondo
1932
Mexican writer (1932–2006)
Lola Hendricks
1932
American activist (1932–2013)
Wayne Tippit
1932
American actor (1932–2009)
Ginger Stanley
1931
American model, actress and stunt woman (1931–2023)
Anca Giurchescu
1930
Academic, ethnochoreologist
Knut Helle
1930
Norwegian historian (1930–2015)
Wally Olins
1930
British brand consultant
Bob Brookmeyer
1929
American jazz musician, arranger, and composer (1929–2011)
Gregory Carroll (R&B singer)
1929
American singer-songwriter
David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry
1929
Anglo-Scottish aristocrat and pottery designer
Howard Sackler
1929
American dramatist
Eve Bunting
1928
Northern Irish-American author (1929–2023)
Nathan Oliveira
1928
American painter (1928 - 2010)
James Booth
1927
English actor (1927–2005)
Bobby Layne
1926
American football player (1926–1986)
Fikret Otyam
1926
Turkish journalist, writer and painter
Tankred Dorst
1925
German playwright and storyteller (1925–2017)
William Schutz
1925
American psychologist (1925–2002)
Robert B. Sherman
1925
American songwriter (1925–2012)
Carlo Chiti
1924
Italian engineer and car designer (1924–1994)
Doug Harvey (ice hockey)
1924
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Gary Morton
1924
American comedian (1924–1999)
Edmund Purdom
1924
English actor (1926–2009)
Michel Tournier
1924
French writer (1924–2016)
Cicely Tyson
1924
American actress (1924–2021)
Robert V. Bruce
1923
American historian
Gordon Jackson (actor)
1923
Scottish actor (1923–1990)
Eamonn Andrews
1922
Irish TV and radio personality (1922–1987)
Little Jimmy Dickens
1920
American country music singer-songwriter (1920–2015)
David Susskind
1920
American producer and talk show host
Professor Longhair
1918
American blues musician (1918–1980)
Lee Rich
1918
American film and television producer
Roy Ward Baker
1916
English film director (1916–2010)
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
1916
German political scientist (1916–2010)
Édith Piaf
1915
French singer (1915–1963)
Claudia Testoni
1915
Italian hurler (1915–1998)
Mel Shaw
1914
American animator, design artist, writer, and artist
Jean Genet
1910
French novelist, playwright, and poet (1910–1986)
W. A. Criswell
1909
American pastor and author (1909–2002)
Jimmy McLarnin
1907
Irish boxer (1907–2004)
Leonid Brezhnev
1906
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982
Irving Kahn
1905
American investor and philanthropist
Giovanni Lurani
1905
Italian automobile engineer and racecar driver
George Davis Snell
1903
American geneticist
Ralph Richardson
1902
English actor (1902–1983)
Rudolf Hell
1901
German electrical engineer and inventor (1901–2002)
Oliver La Farge
1901
American novelist and anthropologist (1901–1963)
Fritz Mauruschat
1901
German footballer and manager
1800s
Martin Luther King Sr.
1899
American Baptist preacher (1899–1984)
Ingeborg Refling Hagen
1895
Norwegian author and poet
Ford Frick
1894
Major League Baseball Commissioner from 1951 to 1965
Edward Bernard Raczyński
1891
Polish politician (1891–1993)
Fritz Reiner
1888
American conductor (1888–1963)
Antonín Zápotocký
1884
Czech communist politician and statesman
Bernard Friedberg
1876
Austrian Hebraist
Mileva Marić
1875
Wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
Carter G. Woodson
1875
African-American historian, writer, and journalist (1875–1950)
Grace Marie Bareis
1875
20th-century American mathematician
Alphonse Kirchhoffer
1873
French fencer (1873–1913)
Minnie Maddern Fiske
1865
American dramatist (1865–1932)
Wallace Bryant (archer)
1863
American archer (1863–1953)
Italo Svevo
1861
Italian and Austro-Hungarian businessman, playwright, and writer (1861–1928)
Charles Fitzpatrick
1853
20th-century Chief Justice of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
Albert A. Michelson
1852
American experimental physicist (1852–1931)
Henry Clay Frick
1849
American industrialist (1849–1919)
Bernice Pauahi Bishop
1831
Hawaiian aristocrat (1831–1884)
George Frederick Bristow
1825
American composer (1825–1898)
Mary Livermore
1820
American journalist, abolitionist and advocate of women's rights
James J. Archer
1817
Confederate States Army brigadier general (1817–1864)
Before 1800
Antoine Louis Dugès
1797
French zoologist (1797–1838)
Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
1796
Spanish dramatist (1796–1873)
Marie Thérèse of France
1778
French Madame Royale (1778–1851)
John Winthrop (educator)
1714
American mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1714–1779)
William Bowyer (printer)
1699
English printer (1699–1777)
Philip V of Spain
1683
King of Spain (r. 1700–1724; 1724–1746)
Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg
1587
Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
Philip William, Prince of Orange
1554
Prince of Orange from 1584 to 1618
Andreas Osiander
1498
German Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer
William I, Margrave of Meissen
1343
Margrave of Meissen