Births on 26 December
2000s
Josh Wilson-Esbrand
2002
English footballer (born 2002)
Aleksej Pokuševski
2001
Serbian basketball player (born 2001)
1900s
Tamara Zidanšek
1997
Slovenian tennis player (born 1997)
Colby Cave
1994
Canadian ice hockey player (1994–2020)
Souleymane Coulibaly
1994
Ivorian footballer (born 1994)
Cecilia Costa Melgar
1992
Chilean tennis player (born 1992)
Jade Thirlwall
1992
English singer (born 1992)
Brandon Scherff
1991
American football player (born 1991)
Eden Sher
1991
American actress (born 1991)
Trevor Siemian
1991
American football player (born 1991)
Denis Cheryshev
1990
Russian footballer (born 1990)
Cory Jefferson
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Aaron Ramsey
1990
Welsh footballer (born 1990)
Yohan Blake
1989
Jamaican sprinter (born 1989)
Sofiane Feghouli
1989
Algerian footballer (born 1989)
Tomáš Kundrátek
1989
Czech ice hockey player (born 1989)
Oskar Osala
1987
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1987)
Joe Alexander
1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Kit Harington
1986
British actor (born 1986)
Hugo Lloris
1986
French footballer (born 1986)
Selen Soyder
1986
Turkish model and actress
Damir Markota
1985
Croatian basketball player
Ahmed Barusso
1984
Ghanaian footballer (born 1984)
Leonardo Ghiraldini
1984
Italy international rugby union player
Alex Schwazer
1984
Italian race walker (born 1984)
Jeroen Soete
1983
Belgian politician (born 1983)
Yu Takahashi (singer-songwriter)
1983
Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1983)
Alexander Wang (designer)
1983
American fashion designer (born 1983)
Kenneth Darby
1982
American football player (born 1982)
Noel Hunt
1982
Irish football manager (born 1982)
Aksel Lund Svindal
1982
Norwegian alpine skier (born 1982)
Pablo Canavosio
1981
Italy international rugby union player
Omar Infante
1981
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1981)
Todd Dunivant
1980
American soccer executive and former player
Ceylan Ertem
1980
Turkish singer-songwriter
Fabián Carini
1979
Uruguayan footballer (born 1979)
Chris Daughtry
1979
American musician (born 1979)
Dmitriy Vassiliev
1979
Russian ski jumper (born 1979)
Craig Wing
1979
Australia international dual-code rugby player
Karel Rüütli
1978
Estonian politician (born 1978)
Kaoru Sugayama
1978
Japanese volleyball player (born 1978)
Fatih Akyel
1977
Turkish footballer (born 1977)
Adrienn Hegedűs
1977
Hungarian tennis player
Simon Goodwin
1976
Australian rules footballer, born 1976
Chris Calaguio
1975
Filipino basketball player (born 1975)
Marcelo Ríos
1975
Chilean tennis player
María Vasco
1975
Spanish race walker
Joshua John Miller
1974
American actor (born 1974)
Paulão (footballer, born 1973)
1973
Brazilian footballer
Gianluca Faliva
1973
Italy international rugby union player
Nobuhiko Matsunaka
1973
Japanese baseball player
Steve Prescott
1973
England & Ireland international rugby league footballer
Gaby Colebunders
1972
Belgian politician (born 1972)
Esteban Fuertes
1972
Argentine footballer
Robert Muchamore
1972
English young adult fiction author (born 1971)
Jared Leto
1971
American actor and musician (born 1971)
Mika Nurmela
1971
Finnish footballer (born 1971)
Tatiana Sorokko
1971
Russian-American model, fashion journalist, and collector
James Mercer (musician)
1970
American singer-songwriter (born 1970)
Isaac Viciosa
1969
Spanish middle-distance runner
Matt Zoller Seitz
1968
American writer and critic (born 1968)
Jay Farrar
1966
American singer-songwriter
Tim Legler
1966
American basketball player (born 1966)
Elizabeth Kostova
1964
American writer (born 1964)
Craig Teitzel
1963
Australian rugby league footballer
Lars Ulrich
1963
Danish drummer (born 1963)
James Kottak
1962
American drummer (1962–2024)
Mark Starr
1962
English professional wrestler (1962–2013)
Andrew Lock
1961
Australian mountaineer (born 1961)
Keith Martin Ball
1960
British mathematician
Ruud Kaiser
1960
Dutch footballer and manager (born 1960)
Cem Uzan
1960
Turkish businessman and politician
Wang Lijun
1959
Chinese former police chief (born 1959)
Kōji Morimoto
1959
Japanese anime director (born 1959)
Hans Nielsen (speedway rider)
1959
Danish speedway rider
Adrian Newey
1958
British engineer, aerodynamicist and motorsport executive (born 1958)
Dermot Murnaghan
1957
English broadcaster (born 1957)
David Sedaris
1956
American humorist and author (born 1956)
Evan Bayh
1955
American politician (born 1955)
Peter Hillary
1954
New Zealand mountain climber
Ozzie Smith
1954
American professional baseball player (born 1954)
Leonel Fernández
1953
President of the Dominican Republic (1996–2000; 2004–2012)
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
1953
President of Estonia from 2006 to 2016
Makis Katsavakis
1953
Greek footballer and manager (born in 1953)
Kraftwerk
1953
German electronic music band
Raja Pervez Ashraf
1950
Pakistani politician (born 1950)
Mario Mendoza
1950
Mexican baseball player (born 1950)
José Ramos-Horta
1949
President of East Timor (2007–2012; since 2022)
Candy Crowley
1948
American news anchor
James T. Conway
1947
United States Marine Corps general
Jean Echenoz
1947
French writer (born 1947)
Carlton Fisk
1947
American baseball player (born 1947)
Josef Janíček
1947
Czech musician
Liz Lochhead
1947
Scottish poet and essayist (born 1947)
Richard Levis McCormick
1947
American historian and academic administrator
Alan Frumin
1946
American lawyer and political advisor (born 1946)
Tiit Rosenberg
1946
Estonian historian
John Walsh (television host)
1945
American television presenter (born 1945)
Bill Ayers
1944
American professor and activist
Vinicio Cerezo
1942
President of Guatemala from 1986 to 1991
Catherine Coulter
1942
American romance novelist
Gray Davis
1942
Governor of California from 1999 to 2003
Daniel Schmid
1941
Swiss theatre and film director (1941–2006)
Edward C. Prescott
1940
American economist and Nobel Laureate (1940–2022)
Ray Sadecki
1940
American baseball player (1940–2014)
Fred Schepisi
1939
Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)
Phil Spector
1939
American record producer and convicted murderer (1939–2021)
Bahram Beyzai
1938
Iranian playwright, theatre director and screenwriter (1938–2025)
Robert Hamerton-Kelly
1938
South African-American theologian (1938–2013)
Alamgir Kabir (film maker)
1938
Bangladeshi film director (1938–1989)
Mirko Kovač (writer)
1938
Yugoslav writer
John Horton Conway
1937
English mathematician (1937–2020)
Kitty Dukakis
1936
American author (1936–2025)
Peep Jänes
1936
Estonian architect
Trevor Taylor (racing driver)
1936
British racing driver (1936–2010)
Rohan Kanhai
1935
Guyanese cricketer
Norm Ullman
1935
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
Caroll Spinney
1933
American puppeteer (1933–2019)
Jean Ferrat
1930
French singer-songwriter and poet
Harry Gamble
1930
American football coach and executive
Donald Moffat
1930
British–American actor (1930–2018)
Kathleen Crowley
1929
American actress (1929–2017)
Régine Zylberberg
1929
Belgian-French singer and nightclub impresaria (1929–2022)
Martin Cooper (inventor)
1928
American engineer (born 1928)
Denis Gifford
1927
British historian, writer and comic artist (1927–2000)
Alan King
1927
American comedian and actor (1927–2004)
Stu Miller
1927
American baseball player (1927–2015)
Denis Quilley
1927
English actor, singer (1927–2003)
Earle Brown
1926
American composer (1926–2002)
Frank Broyles
1924
American college football coach, college athletic director (1924–2017)
Richard Artschwager
1923
American artist (1923–2013)
Richard Mayes
1922
English actor
Steve Allen
1921
American TV personality (1921–2000)
John Severin
1921
American cartoonist
Olga Lopes-Seale
1918
Guyanese radio personality and activist
Georgios Rallis
1918
Greek politician (1918–2006)
Rolf Botvid
1915
Swedish actor and writer
Richard Widmark
1914
American actor and producer (1914–2008)
Frank Swift
1913
English footballer
Arsenio Lacson
1912
Filipino lawyer and politician (1912–1962)
Imperio Argentina
1910
Argentine singer and actress (1906–2003)
Marguerite Churchill
1910
American actress (1910–2000)
Matt Gordy
1909
American pole vaulter
Ralph Hill (runner)
1908
American runner and Olympian
Albert Gore Sr.
1907
American politician (1907–1998)
William Loeb III
1905
American newspaper publisher
Alejo Carpentier
1904
Cuban novelist (1904–1980)
Elisha Cook Jr.
1903
American actor (1903–1995)
Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan
1902
Belarusian Jewish painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Elmar Muuk
1901
Estonian linguist
Evelyn Bark
1900
Humanitarian aid worker
1800s
Jean Toomer
1894
American poet and novelist (1894–1967)
Mao Zedong
1893
Leader of China from 1949 to 1976
Don Barclay (actor)
1892
American actor and caricaturist (1892–1975)
Henry Miller
1891
American novelist (1891–1980)
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos
1890
Greek lawyer and politician
Percy Hodge
1890
British athlete (1890–1967)
Ragnhild Kaarbø
1889
Norwegian painter
Marius Canard
1888
French Orientalist and historian (1888–1982)
Arthur Percival
1887
British Army officer
Bazoline Estelle Usher
1885
20th-century American educator
Maurice Utrillo
1883
French painter (1883–1955)
Ahsanullah (educator)
1874
Tom Wass
1873
English cricketer
Norman Angell
1872
British politician and Nobel Laureate
Virginia Bolten
1870
Argentine anarchist (1870–1960)
Mathieu Cordang
1869
Dutch cyclist (1869–1942)
Phan Bội Châu
1867
Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary
Yun Ch'iho
1864
Korean politician (1864–1945)
Charles Pathé
1863
French businessman
William Stephens (American politician)
1859
American politician (1859–1944)
José Yves Limantour
1854
Mexican financier/politician (1854–1935)
René Bazin
1853
French novelist
Johannes François Snelleman
1852
Dutch zoologist, orientalist, ethnographer and museum director (1852–1938)
Morgan Bulkeley
1837
American politician and businessman (1837–1922)
George Dewey
1837
US Navy admiral (1837–1917)
Dion Boucicault
1820
Irish actor and dramatist (1820–1890)
E. D. E. N. Southworth
1819
American novelist
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1803
Estonian writer, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg
Before 1800
Charles Babbage
1791
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache
1785
First Prime Minister of Belgium
Philaret Drozdov
1782
Russian Orthodox bishop
Mary Somerville
1780
Scottish scientist (1780–1872)
Ernst Moritz Arndt
1769
German historian, writer and politician (1769–1860)
Lord George Gordon
1751
British nobleman and politician (1751–1793)
Clement Mary Hofbauer
1751
Austrian Redemptorist and saint
Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
1737
18th-century Austrian nobleman and military commander
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
1723
German journalist, art critic, and diplomat (1723–1807)
Thomas Gray
1716
English poet and classical scholar (1716–1771)
Jean François de Saint-Lambert
1716
French poet, philosopher and military officer (1716–1803)
Johann Georg Pisendel
1687
German Baroque composer (1687–1755)
Robert Bolling
1646
English-born merchant and planter (1646–1709)
John Page (planter)
1628
English-born planter, merchant, slave trader and politician (1627–1692)
Elisabeth of the Palatinate
1618
Princess-Abbess of Herford Abbey from 1667 to 1680
Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach
1581
Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
1537
16th Century Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Yi I
1536
Korean Confucian scholar (1536–1584)
Wilhelm Xylander
1532
German humanist and classical scholar (1532–1576)
Rose Lok
1526
English Marian exile (1526–1613)
Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry
1446
Duke of Berry, Normandy, and Aquitaine
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
1194
Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 to 1250