21 December
Notable Births
Cooper Flagg
b. 2006
American basketball player (born 2006)
Clara Tauson
b. 2002
Danish tennis player (born 2002)
Madelyn Cline
b. 1997
American actress (born 1997)
Charlie McAvoy
b. 1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Ben Chilwell
b. 1996
English footballer (born 1996)
Kaitlyn Dever
b. 1996
American actress (born 1996)
Luke Brooks
b. 1994
Australian rugby league footballer
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
b. 1992
American football player (born 1992)
Jamie Oleksiak
b. 1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Nic Maddinson
b. 1991
Australian cricketer
Otis (wrestler)
b. 1991
American professional wrestler (born 1991)
Riccardo Saponara
b. 1991
Italian footballer
Mark Ingram II
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Tamannaah Bhatia
b. 1989
Indian actress (born 1989)
Danny Duffy
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Perri Shakes-Drayton
b. 1988
English track and field athlete (born 1988)
Khris Davis
b. 1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Tom Sturridge
b. 1985
English actor (born 1985)
Taylor Teagarden
b. 1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Steven Yeun
b. 1983
South Korean and American actor (born 1983)
Notable Deaths
Michelle Botes
d. 2024
South African actress (1962–2024)
Art Evans (actor)
d. 2024
American actor (1942–2024)
Andrew Clennel Palmer
d. 2019
British engineer (1938–2019)
Bruce McCandless II
d. 2017
American aviator and astronaut (1937–2017)
Udo Jürgens
d. 2014
Austrian singer and composer (1934–2014)
Sitor Situmorang
d. 2014
Indonesian poet
Edgar Bronfman Sr.
d. 2013
Canadian-American businessman (1929–2013)
John Eisenhower
d. 2013
United States Army general, military historian, diplomat
Enzo Bearzot
d. 2010
Italian football player and manager (1927–2010)
Edwin G. Krebs
d. 2009
American biochemist (1918–2009)
Saparmurat Niyazov
d. 2006
President of Turkmenistan from 1991 to 2006
Ernst-Günther Schenck
d. 1998
German SS surgeon
Stella Adler
d. 1992
American actress and acting teacher (1901–1992)
Albert King
d. 1992
American blues musician (1923–1992)
Nathan Milstein
d. 1992
American violinist (1904–1992)
Nikolaas Tinbergen
d. 1988
Dutch zoologist and ethologist (1907–1988)
Hafeez Jalandhari
d. 1982
Pakistani poet (1900–1982)
Richard Long (actor)
d. 1974
American actor (1927–1974)
Vittorio Pozzo
d. 1968
Italian football manager (1886–1968)
Claude Champagne
d. 1965
French Canadian composer, teacher, pianist and violinist (1891–1965)