Births on 20 December
2000s
Facundo Pellistri
2001
Uruguayan footballer (born 2001)
Gaboro
2000
Swedish rapper (2000–2024)
1900s
Kylian Mbappé
1998
French footballer (born 1998)
De'Aaron Fox
1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Suzuka Nakamoto
1997
Japanese musician (born 1997)
Jarrod Bowen
1996
English footballer (born 1996)
Anžejs Pasečņiks
1995
Latvian basketball player (born 1995)
Calvin Ridley
1994
American football player (born 1994)
Andrea Belotti
1993
Italian footballer (born 1993)
Robeisy RamĂrez
1993
Cuban Boxer (born 1993)
Ksenia Makarova
1992
Russian figure skater (born 1992)
Rachael Boyle
1991
Scottish footballer
Jorginho (footballer, born December 1991)
1991
Brazilian-Italian footballer (born 1991)
Jillian Rose Reed
1991
American actress (born 1991)
Fabian Schär
1991
Swiss footballer (born 1991)
JoJo (singer)
1990
American singer and songwriter (born 1990)
Marta Xargay
1990
Spanish basketball player (born 1990)
Malcolm Jenkins
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Chay Genoway
1986
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1986)
Bob Morley
1984
Australian actor (born 1984)
David Tavaré
1984
Spanish singer and House Music DJ (born 1984)
Jonah Hill
1983
American actor (born 1983)
Mohammad Asif (cricketer)
1982
Pakistani former cricketer
David Cook (singer)
1982
American rock singer-songwriter
Kasper Klausen
1982
Danish footballer (born 1982)
David Wright
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Royal Ivey
1981
American basketball player (born 1981)
James Shields (baseball)
1981
American baseball player (born 1981)
Israel Castro
1980
Mexican footballer (born 1980)
Ashley Cole
1980
English footballer (born 1980)
Anthony da Silva
1980
Portuguese football manager and former player (born 1980)
MartĂn Demichelis
1980
Argentine footballer and manager (born 1980)
Michael Rogers (cyclist)
1979
Australian cyclist (born 1979)
Yoon Kye-sang
1978
South Korean actor and singer (born 1978)
Andrei Markov (ice hockey)
1978
Russian-Canadian ice hockey player
Geremi
1978
Cameroonian footballer (born 1978)
Bouabdellah Tahri
1978
French athlete
Nenad Vučković (footballer)
1976
Croatian footballer (born 1976)
Bartosz Bosacki
1975
Polish footballer (born 1975)
Dir En Grey
1974
Japanese heavy metal band
Jan ÄŚaloun
1972
Czech ice hockey player (born 1972)
Anders Odden
1972
Norwegian musician
Nicole de Boer
1970
Canadian actress (born 1970)
Grant Flower
1970
Zimbabwean cricketer (born 1970)
Jörg Schmidt (footballer)
1970
German footballer
Alain de Botton
1969
British author (born 1969)
Zahra Ouaziz
1969
Moroccan long-distance runner
Karl Wendlinger
1968
Austrian racing driver (born 1968)
Veronica Pershina
1966
Russian figure skater (born 1966)
Chris Robinson (singer)
1966
American musician (born 1966)
Joel Gretsch
1963
American actor
Mohamed Fouad
1961
Egyptian singer, actor and songwriter
Nalo Hopkinson
1960
Jamaican Canadian writer (born 1960)
Kim Ki-duk
1960
South Korean film director (1960–2020)
George Coupland
1959
Hildegard Körner
1959
German middle-distance runner
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
1959
51st Prime Minister of Poland from 2005 to 2006
Doug Nordquist
1958
American high jumper
James Thomson (cell biologist)
1958
American developmental biologist
Billy Bragg
1957
British singer, songwriter and musician (born 1957)
Anna Vissi
1957
Greek Cypriot singer (born 1957)
Mike Watt
1957
American musician (born 1957)
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
1956
President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019
Guy Babylon
1956
American keyboardist and composer (1956–2009)
Blanche Baker
1956
American actress (born 1956)
Junji Hirata
1956
Japanese professional wrestler
Andrew Mackenzie (businessman)
1956
Scottish businessman (born 1956)
Anita Ward
1956
American singer and musician (born 1956)
Martin Schulz
1955
German politician (born 1955)
Binali Yıldırım
1955
Prime Minister of Turkey from 2016 to 2018
Michael Badalucco
1954
American actor (born 1954)
Sandra Cisneros
1954
American writer (born 1954)
Jenny Agutter
1952
English actress (born 1952)
Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan
1951
Public figure in Northern Ireland, Police Ombudsman and parliamentarian
Marta Russell
1951
American journalist
Arturo Márquez
1950
Mexican composer of orchestral music (born 1950)
Soumaïla Cissé
1949
Malian politician (1949–2020)
Cecil Cooper
1949
American baseball player and manager (born 1949)
Alan Parsons
1948
English audio engineer, musician, and record producer (born 1948)
Mitsuko Uchida
1948
Japanese-English classical pianist and conductor (born 1948)
Gigliola Cinquetti
1947
Italian singer and TV presenter (born 1947)
Uri Geller
1946
Israeli-British illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic (born 1946)
Bill Hosket Jr.
1946
American basketball player
Sonny Perdue
1946
American politician (born 1946)
Dick Wolf
1946
American television producer (born 1946)
Peter Criss
1945
American drummer and singer (born 1945)
Sivakant Tiwari
1945
Singaporean legal officer
Ray Martin (television presenter)
1944
Australian journalist and television presenter
Rana Bhagwandas
1942
Pakistani judge (1942–2015)
Bob Hayes
1942
American football player and sprinter (1942–2002)
Jean-Claude Trichet
1942
President of the European Central Bank from 2003 to 2011
Roger Woodward
1942
Australian classical pianist (born 1942)
Kathryn Joosten
1939
American actress (1939–2012)
Kim Weston
1939
American soul singer and Motown alumna (born 1939)
Billy Ibadulla
1935
Pakistani-New Zealand cricketer (1935–2024)
Olavi Salonen
1933
Finnish middle-distance runner (1933–2025)
Rik Van Looy
1933
Belgian cyclist (1933–2024)
Antoine Mbary-Daba
1932
John Hillerman
1932
American actor (1932–2017)
Mala Powers
1931
American actress (1931–2007)
Hristina Obradović
1931
Serbian hegumenia and abbess (1931–2026)
Don Sunderlage
1929
American basketball player (1929–1961)
John Menkes
1928
Physician who identified two metabolic diseases
Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark
1927
22nd seigneur of Sark
Jim Simpson (sportscaster)
1927
American sportscaster (1927–2016)
Kim Young-sam
1927
President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998
Marcel Douzima
1926
Central African politician and teacher
Geoffrey Howe
1926
British politician (1926–2015)
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
1926
German politician (1926–2009)
Benito Lorenzi
1925
Italian footballer (1925-2007)
Charlie Callas
1924
American actor, comedian and jazz drummer (1927–2011)
Judy LaMarsh
1924
Canadian broadcaster, writer, lawyer and politician (1924–1980)
Beverly Pepper
1922
American sculptor and painter (1922–2020)
William Soeryadjaya
1922
Chinese Indonesian businessman
George Roy Hill
1921
American film director (1921–2002)
Väinö Linna
1920
Finnish author (1920–1992)
Jean Marchand
1918
Quebec politician and trade unionist
David Bohm
1917
American-Brazilian-British scientist (1917–1992)
Cahit KĂĽlebi
1917
Turkish poet and author (1917–1997)
Audrey Totter
1917
American actress (1917–2013)
Michel Chartrand
1916
Canadian trade union leader (1916–2010)
Aziz Nesin
1915
Turkish writer, humorist and author (1915–1995)
Harry F. Byrd Jr.
1914
American politician (1914–2013)
Hortense Calisher
1911
American novelist
Vakkom Majeed
1909
Indian politician (1909–2000)
Dennis Morgan
1908
American actor (1908–1994)
Paul Francis Webster
1907
American lyricist (1907–1984)
Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)
1905
Australian cricketer (1905 – 1992)
Spud Davis
1904
American baseball player and manager (1904–1984)
Yevgenia Ginzburg
1904
Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag
Prince George, Duke of Kent
1902
British prince (1902–1942)
Sidney Hook
1902
20th-Century American philosopher
Robert J. Van de Graaff
1901
American applied physicist (1901–1967)
Lissy Arna
1900
German actress (1900–1964)
Gabby Hartnett
1900
American baseball player and manager (1900–1972)
1800s
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
1899
Welsh pastor, author, and physician (1899–1981)
Konstantinos Dovas
1898
20th-century Greek military officer and politician
Irene Dunne
1898
American actress (1898–1990)
Robert Menzies
1894
Prime Minister of Australia (1939–1941; 1949–1966)
Erik Almlöf
1891
Swedish triple jumper
Yvonne Arnaud
1890
French pianist, singer, actress (1890–1958)
Jaroslav HeyrovskĂ˝
1890
Czech chemist and inventor (1890–1967)
Yitzhak Baer
1888
German-Israeli historian (1888–1980)
Fred Merkle
1888
American baseball player (1888–1956)
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
1886
American tennis and badminton player
Ruhana Kuddus
1884
Indonesian journalist
Branch Rickey
1881
American baseball player, manager, and executive (1881–1965)
Mary Ann Bevan
1874
Side show performer, nurse
Kan'ichi Asakawa
1873
Japanese historian (1873–1948)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy
1873
Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician (1873–1936)
Henry Kimball Hadley
1871
American composer and conductor
Charley Grapewin
1869
American circus performer and actor
Harvey S. Firestone
1868
American businessman (1868–1938)
Elsie de Wolfe
1865
American interior decorator, author, and actress
Ferdinand Bonn
1861
German actor (1861–1933)
Ivana Kobilca
1861
Slovenian painter (1861–1926)
Knut Wicksell
1851
Swedish economist (1851–1926)
Ferdinand Buisson
1841
French educational bureaucrat, pacifist and politician
Edwin Abbott Abbott
1838
British theologian and author (1838–1926)
Laura M. Thurston
1812
American poet
MartĂn Carrera
1806
President of Mexico in 1855
Before 1800
Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet
1792
French painter (1792–1845)
Pietro Raimondi
1786
Italian composer
Arthur Lee (diplomat)
1740
American diplomat by (1740–1792)
Urban Hjärne
1641
Swedish chemist
Pieter de Hooch
1629
Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1629)
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff
1626
German statesman and scholar
Jan Sarkander
1576
Polish-Czech Roman Catholic priest
John III of Sweden
1537
King of Sweden from 1569 to 1592
Joseph ha-Kohen
1496
16th century physician, rabbi, and historian
Oronce Fine
1494
French mathematician and cartographer