Births on 24 December
2000s
Joshua Primo
2002
Canadian basketball player (born 2002)
Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
2002
American football player (born 2002)
Choi Sung-beom
2001
South Korean footballer (born 2001)
1900s
Alexis Mac Allister
1998
Argentine footballer (born 1998)
Neeraj Chopra
1997
Indian javelin thrower (born 1997)
William Contreras
1997
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1997)
Anett Kontaveit
1995
Estonian tennis player (born 1995)
Fa'amanu Brown
1994
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Miguel Castro
1994
Dominican baseball player (born 1994)
Matt Frawley
1994
Australian rugby league footballer
Han Seung-woo
1994
South Korean singer (born 1994)
Davante Adams
1992
American football player (born 1992)
Serge Aurier
1992
Ivorian footballer (born 1992)
P. J. Hairston
1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Sofia Black-D'Elia
1991
American actress
Lara Michel
1991
Swiss tennis player
Eric Moreland
1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Louis Tomlinson
1991
English singer-songwriter (born 1991)
Taylor Zakhar Perez
1991
American actor (born 1991)
Beloved Promise
1990
American high jumper
Ryo Miyake
1990
Japanese fencer (born 1990)
Matt Calvert
1989
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1989)
Stefanos Athanasiadis
1988
Greek footballer (born 1988)
Emre Özkan
1988
Turkish footballer
Simon Zenke
1988
Nigerian footballer
Jane Summersett
1987
American ice dancer
Tim Elliott
1986
American mixed martial artist (born 1986)
Kyrylo Fesenko
1986
Ukrainian professional basketball player
Alexey Dmitriev
1985
Belarusian-born German ice hockey player
Isaac De Gois
1984
Portugal international rugby league footballer
Austin Stowell
1984
American actor (born 1984)
Gregor Blanco
1983
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1983)
Tim Jennings
1983
American football player (born 1983)
Dima Bilan
1981
Russian singer and model (born 1981)
Stephen Appiah
1980
Ghanaian footballer (born 1980)
Tomas Kalnoky
1980
American musician (born 1980)
Maarja-Liis Ilus
1980
Estonian musician
Yıldıray Baştürk
1978
Turkish footballer (born 1978)
Heinrich Himmer
1978
Austrian politician (born 1978)
Michael Raymond-James
1977
American actor
Linda Ferga
1976
French hurdler (born 1976)
Thure Lindhardt
1974
Danish actor (born 1974)
Paal Nilssen-Love
1974
Norwegian jazz drummer and composer
Marcelo Salas
1974
Chilean footballer (born 1974)
Ryan Seacrest
1974
American television and radio host (born 1974)
J. D. Walsh (actor)
1974
American screen actor, writer and producer (born 1974)
Liu Dong
1973
Chinese middle-distance runner
Stephenie Meyer
1973
American novelist (born 1973)
Ali Salem Tamek
1973
Moroccan Sahrawi independence activist
Álvaro Mesén
1972
Costa Rican footballer (born 1972)
Geoff Allott
1971
New Zealand cricketer (born 1971)
Sascha Fischer
1971
German rugby union player (born 1971)
Ricky Martin
1971
Puerto Rican singer and actor (born 1971)
Adam Haslett
1970
American writer and journalist (born 1970)
Amaury Nolasco
1970
Puerto Rican actor (born 1970)
Milan Blagojevic (soccer)
1969
Australian retired soccer player
Pernille Fischer Christensen
1969
Danish film director
Ed Miliband
1969
British politician (born 1969)
Luis Musrri
1969
Chilean footballer (born 1969)
Oleg Skripochka
1969
Russian engineer and cosmonaut (born 1969)
Gintaras Staučė
1969
Lithuanian footballer and coach
Marleen Renders
1968
Belgian long-distance runner
Mikhail Shchennikov
1967
Russian race walker (born 1967)
Pernilla Wahlgren
1967
Swedish singer and actress (born 1967)
Diedrich Bader
1966
American actor (born 1966)
Mark Valley
1964
American actor
Caroline Aherne
1963
English actress, comedian and writer (1963–2016)
Jay Bilas
1963
American college basketball analyst
Timo Jutila
1963
Finnish ice hockey player
Mary Ramsey (musician)
1963
American singer-songwriter
Kate Spade
1962
American fashion designer (1962–2018)
Ilham Aliyev
1961
President of Azerbaijan since 2003
Mary Barra
1961
American businesswoman and executive
Eriko Kitagawa
1961
Japanese screenwriter and film director (born 1961)
Wade Williams
1961
American actor
Jay Wright
1961
American basketball coach (born 1961)
Glenn McQueen
1960
Canadian animator (1960–2002)
Carol Vorderman
1960
Welsh media personality (born 1960)
Chris Blackhurst
1959
British newspaper editor
Lee Daniels
1959
American filmmaker and television producer (born 1959)
Munetaka Higuchi
1958
Japanese drummer (1958–2008)
Diane Tell
1958
Canadian musician (born Diane Fortin, 1959)
Hamid Karzai
1957
President of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014
Shim Hwa-jin
1956
Anil Kapoor
1956
Indian actor and film producer (b. 1956)
Grand L. Bush
1955
American actor
Scott Fischer
1955
American mountaineer (1955–1996)
Clarence Gilyard
1955
American actor (1955–2022)
Yves Debay
1954
French-Belgian war correspondent (1954-2013)
José María Figueres
1954
President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998
Timothy Carhart
1953
American actor
John D'Acquisto
1951
American baseball player (born 1951)
Dana Gioia
1950
American poet and writer (born 1950)
Hiroshi Ikushima
1950
Japanese announcer and financial planner (born 1950)
Libby Larsen
1950
American composer (born 1950)
Tommy Turtle
1950
British Army soldier (1950–2020)
Warwick Brown
1949
Australian racing driver (born 1949)
Stan Bowles
1948
English footballer (1948–2024)
Frank Oliver (rugby union)
1948
New Zealand rugby union player (1948–2014)
Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)
1947
Australian rules footballer (born 1947)
Jan Akkerman
1946
Dutch guitarist (born 1946)
Jeff Sessions
1946
American politician and attorney (born 1946)
Lemmy
1945
English rock musician (1945–2015)
Nicholas Meyer
1945
American screenwriter, producer, author, and director (born 1945)
Jan Erik Berntsen
1944
Norwegian actor and singer (1944–2025)
Mike Curb
1944
42nd Lieutenant Governor of California (born 1944)
Daniel Johnson Jr.
1944
Premier of Quebec in 1994
Erhard Keller
1944
German speed skater
Bob Shaw (golfer)
1944
Australian professional golfer
Woody Shaw
1944
American jazz trumpeter, composer, band leader, and educator
Tarja Halonen
1943
Finnish politician, President of Finland (born 1943)
Indra Bania
1942
Indian actor, playwright and director (1942-2015)
Jonathan Borofsky
1942
American sculptor and printmaker
Đoàn Viết Hoạt
1942
Vietnamese journalist and dissident (1942–2025)
Mike Hazlewood
1941
English singer, composer and songwriter (1941–2001)
Nel Beltrán Santamaría
1941
Colombian Roman Catholic bishop (1940–2025)
Janet Carroll
1940
American actress
Anthony Fauci
1940
American immunologist (born 1940)
Valentim Loureiro
1938
Portuguese politician and football chairman
Félix (footballer)
1937
Brazilian footballer (1937–2012)
Ivan Lawrence
1936
British politician (born 1936)
Stjepan Mesić
1934
President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010
Colin Cowdrey
1932
English cricketer (1932–2000)
On Kawara
1932
Japanese artist (1932–2014)
Ray Bryant
1931
American pianist (1931–2011)
Mauricio Kagel
1931
German-Argentine composer (1931-2008)
Robert Joffrey
1930
American ballet dancer and choreographer
John J. Kelley
1930
American marathon runner
Lennart Skoglund
1929
Swedish footballer (1929–1975)
Red Sullivan
1929
Canadian ice hockey player (1929–2019)
Adam Exner
1928
Canadian Catholic archbishop (1928–2023)
Lev Vlassenko
1928
Musical artist
Mary Higgins Clark
1927
American novelist and writer (1927–2020)
Lee Dorsey
1924
American pop and R&B singer (1924–1986)
Abdirizak Haji Hussein
1924
Prime Minister of Somalia
George Patton IV
1923
United States Army general (1923–2004) and son of George Patton
William C. Schneider
1923
American aerospace engineer
Ava Gardner
1922
American actress (1922–1990)
Franco Lucentini
1920
Italian writer
Yevgeniya Rudneva
1920
Soviet aviator (1920–1944)
Qateel Shifai
1919
Pakistani poet and lyricist (1919–2001)
Pierre Soulages
1919
French painter, engraver and sculptor (1919–2022)
Dave Bartholomew
1918
American musician, producer, and composer (1918–2019)
Ralph Marterie
1914
Italian big-band leader (1914–1978)
Herbert Reinecker
1914
German novelist
Ad Reinhardt
1913
American painter and printmaker
Ellen Braumüller
1910
German track and field athlete
Fritz Leiber
1910
American fantasy, horror, and SF writer (1910–1992)
Max Miedinger
1910
Swiss type designer (1910–1980)
I. F. Stone
1907
American investigative journalist, writer, and author (1907–1989)
Franz Waxman
1906
German film composer (1906–1967)
Howard Hughes
1905
American aviator, aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)
Joseph M. Juran
1904
Romanian-American engineer (1904–2008)
Joseph Cornell
1903
American artist and filmmaker (1903–1972)
Ernst Krenkel
1903
Soviet arctic explorer, government official, and journalist
Ava Helen Pauling
1903
American activist (1903–1981)
Nina Negri
1901
Argentine-French painter and engraver
Joey Smallwood
1900
Canadian politician and premier of Newfoundland
Hawayo Takata
1900
Japanese-American Reiki practitioner
1800s
Baby Dodds
1898
American jazz drummer (1898–1959)
Ville Pörhölä
1897
Athletics competitor (1897–1964)
Väinö Sipilä
1897
Finnish long-distance runner
E. Roland Harriman
1895
American financier and philanthropist
Noel Streatfeild
1895
English author (1895–1986)
Marguerite Williams
1895
American geologist
Georges Guynemer
1894
French World War I flying ace
Jack Thayer
1894
Titanic survivor (1894–1945)
Harry Warren
1893
American composer and lyricist (1893–1981)
Ruth Chatterton
1892
American actress (1892–1961)
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky
1891
Russian painter
Louis Jouvet
1887
French actor (1887–1951)
Axel Revold
1887
Norwegian painter (1887–1962)
Michael Curtiz
1886
Hungarian and American director (1886–1962)
Paul Manship
1885
American sculptor (1885–1966)
Stefan Jaracz
1883
Polish actor (1883–1945)
Hans Rebane
1882
Estonian politician, diplomat and journalist
Georges Legagneux
1882
French aviator (1882–1914)
Charles Wakefield Cadman
1881
American composer
Johnny Gruelle
1880
American cartoonist (1880–1938)
Émile Nelligan
1879
Canadian poet (1879–1941)
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1879
Queen of Denmark (1912–1947) and Iceland (1918–1944)
Sigrid Schauman
1877
Finnish artist and art critic (1877–1979)
Émile Wegelin
1875
French rower (1875–1962)
Frederick Semple
1872
American golfer and tennis player
Henriette Roland Holst
1869
Dutch poet and communist (1869–1954)
Charles Harvey Bollman
1868
American naturalist (1868–1889)
Emanuel Lasker
1868
German chess player (1868–1941)
Tevfik Fikret
1867
Ottoman educator and poet (1867–1915)
Szymon Askenazy
1865
Polish historian
George I of Greece
1845
King of Greece from 1863 to 1913
Lydia Koidula
1843
Estonian poet (1843–1886)
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
1837
Habsburg consort from 1854 to 1898
Alexander von Oettingen
1827
Baltic German theologian (1827–1905)
Matthew Arnold
1822
English poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)
Charles Hermite
1822
French mathematician (1822–1901)
James Prescott Joule
1818
English physicist (1818–1889)
Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal
1812
German jurist (1812–1894)
Wilhelm Marstrand
1810
Painter and illustrator (1810–1873)
Kit Carson
1809
American frontiersman and guide (1809–1868)
Before 1800
Adam Mickiewicz
1798
PoIish writer and activist (1798–1855)
Carl Georg von Wächter
1797
German jurist (1797–1880)
Selim III
1761
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807
Jean-Louis Pons
1761
French astronomer (1761–1831)
George Crabbe
1754
English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (1754–1832)
Julie Bondeli
1731
Swiss salonnière
Johann Hartmann
1726
Danish composer
William Warburton
1698
English writer and critic (1698–1779)
Domenico Sarro
1679
Italian composer (1679–1744)
Mariana of Austria
1635
Queen of Spain from 1649 to 1665
Johann Rudolph Ahle
1625
German composer (1625–1673)
Honoré II, Prince of Monaco
1597
Lord/Prince of Monaco from 1604 to 1662
Leonaert Bramer
1596
Dutch painter (1596 – c. 1674)
Constance of Austria
1588
Queen of Poland from 1605 to 1631
Kaspar Ulenberg
1549
German theological writer and translator
Willem IV van den Bergh
1537
Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen (1581-1583)
Martha Leijonhufvud
1520
Swedish noblewoman (1520–1584)
Pietro Carnesecchi
1508
Italian humanist (1508–1567)
Thomas Murner
1475
German writer
Bartolomeo degli Organi
1474
Italian composer
John V, Duke of Brittany
1389
Duke of Brittany from 1399 to 1442
John, King of England
1166
King of England from 1199 to 1216
Galba
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Roman emperor from AD 68 to 69