Births on 4 December
2000s
Jackson Holliday
2003
American baseball player (born 2003)
Kim Do-ah
2003
South Korean singer and actress (born 2003)
María Dueñas (violinist)
2002
Spanish violinist (born 2002)
1900s
Kim Do-yeon (singer)
1999
South Korean singer and actress (born 1999)
Kang Mi-na
1999
South Korean actress (born 1999)
Diogo Jota
1996
Portuguese footballer (1996–2025)
Sebastián Vegas
1996
Chilean footballer (born 1996)
Gabriel Lundberg
1994
Danish basketball player (born 1994)
Robin Bruyère
1992
Belgian politician (born 1992)
Peta Hiku
1992
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Jean-Claude Iranzi
1992
Rwandan footballer (born 1990)
Jin (singer)
1992
South Korean singer (born 1992)
Joe Musgrove
1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Blake Snell
1992
American baseball pitcher (born 1992)
Duje Dukan
1991
Croatian-American basketball player (born 1991)
André Roberson
1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Max Holloway
1991
American mixed martial artist (born 1991)
Reality Winner
1991
American intelligence translator (born 1991)
Lukman Haruna
1990
Nigerian footballer
Blake Leary
1990
Australian rugby league footballer
Yeng Constantino
1988
Filipino singer (born 1988)
Orlando Brown (actor)
1987
American actor (born 1987)
Kaija Vahtra
1986
Estonian cross-country skier (born 1986)
Martell Webster
1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Andrew Brackman
1985
American baseball player (born 1985)
Carlos Gómez (baseball)
1985
Dominican baseball player (born 1985)
Lindsay Felton
1984
American actress
Anna Petrakova
1984
Russian basketball player
Jelly Roll (singer)
1984
American rapper (born 1984)
Joe Thomas (offensive tackle)
1984
American football player (born 1984)
Jimmy Bartel
1983
Australian rules footballer, born 1983
Chinx
1983
American rapper (1983–2015)
Nathan Douglas
1982
English triple jumper
Waldo Ponce
1982
Chilean football defender (born 1982)
Ho-Pin Tung
1982
Dutch-born racing driver (born 1982)
Nick Vujicic
1982
Australian American evangelist
Brian Vandborg
1981
Danish cyclist (born 1981)
Brian Cook (basketball)
1980
American basketball player (born 1980)
Viktor (wrestler)
1980
Canadian professional wrestler (born 1980)
Ysabella Brave
1979
American singer
Jay DeMerit
1979
American soccer player (born 1979)
Jaclyn Victor
1978
Malaysian singer (born 1978)
Ajit Agarkar
1977
Indian cricketer and commentator (born 1977)
Darvis Patton
1977
American sprinter (born 1977)
Morten Veland
1977
Norwegian musician (born 1977)
Kristina Groves
1976
Canadian speed skater
Betty Lennox
1976
American basketball player (born 1976)
Tadahito Iguchi
1974
Japanese baseball player (born 1974)
Tyra Banks
1973
American television personality, producer, and former model
Keith Caputo
1973
American singer
Mike Jackson (footballer, born 1973)
1973
English footballer and manager
Steve Menzies
1973
Australia international rugby league footballer
Kate Rusby
1973
English folk singer-songwriter
Corliss Williamson
1973
American basketball player and coach (born 1973)
Jassen Cullimore
1972
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1972)
Yūko Miyamura
1972
Japanese actress (born 1972)
Shannon Briggs
1971
American boxer and actor
Kevin Sussman
1970
American actor and comedian (born 1970)
Dionne Farris
1969
American singer
Jay-Z
1969
American rapper (born 1969)
Plum Sykes
1969
British fashion writer
Tahir Dawar
1968
Pakistani police officer
Guillermo Amor
1967
Spanish footballer (born 1967)
Fred Armisen
1966
American comedian and actor (born 1966)
Andy Hess
1966
American bassist
Suzanne Malveaux
1966
American journalist (born 1966)
Suzette M. Malveaux
1966
American jurist (born 1966)
Álex de la Iglesia
1965
Spanish filmmaker (born 1965)
Shaun Hollamby
1965
British TV Director/Producer and former racing driver (born 1965)
Ulf Kirsten
1965
German footballer (born 1965)
Scott Hastings (rugby union)
1964
British Lions & Scotland international rugby union player
Chelsea Noble
1964
American actress (born 1964)
Marisa Tomei
1964
American actress (born 1964)
Sergey Bubka
1963
Ukrainian pole vaulter (born 1963)
Nigel Heslop
1963
England international rugby union & league footballer
Vinnie Dombroski
1962
American singer
Gary Freeman (rugby league)
1962
New Zealand international rugby league footballer and coach
Nixon Kiprotich
1962
Kenyan middle-distance runner
Kevin Richardson (footballer)
1962
English footballer (born 1962)
Frank Reich
1961
American football player and coach (born 1961)
Naomi Robson
1961
American-born Australian television presenter
David Green (baseball)
1960
Nicaraguan baseball player (1960–2022)
Glynis Nunn
1960
Australian heptathlete
Sergei Starikov
1958
Russian ice hockey player (born 1958)
Raul Boesel
1957
Brazilian racing driver (born 1957)
Eric S. Raymond
1957
US programmer, author, and open-source advocate
Lee Smith (baseball)
1957
American baseball player (born 1957)
Nia Griffith
1956
Welsh politician (born 1956)
Bernard King
1956
American basketball player (born 1956)
Philip Hammond
1955
British politician and life peer (born 1955)
Dave Taylor (ice hockey)
1955
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
Cassandra Wilson
1955
American jazz singer, songwriter and producer (born 1955)
Tony Todd
1954
American actor (1954–2024)
Rick Middleton
1953
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1953)
Jean-Marie Pfaff
1953
Belgian footballer (born 1953)
Gary Rossington
1951
American guitarist (1951–2023)
Patricia Wettig
1951
American actress (born 1951)
Bjørn Kjellemyr
1950
Norwegian double bassist (1950–2025)
Jeff Bridges
1949
American actor (born 1949)
Jock Stirrup
1949
British peer and former RAF officer (born 1949)
Southside Johnny
1948
American musician (born 1948)
Jane Lubchenco
1947
American ecologist (born 1947)
Karina (Spanish singer)
1946
Spanish singer (born 1945)
Roberta Bondar
1945
Canadian astronaut (born 1945)
Chris Hillman
1944
American musician (born 1944)
Anna McGarrigle
1944
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1944)
François Migault
1944
French racing driver (1944–2012)
Dennis Wilson
1944
American musician (1944–1983)
Bob Mosley
1942
American musician (born 1942)
Marty Riessen
1941
American tennis player
Gerd Achterberg
1940
German football manager (1940–2025)
Gary Gilmore
1940
American murderer (1940–1977)
Stephen W. Bosworth
1939
American academic and diplomat (1939-2016)
Joan Brady (American-British writer)
1939
American-British writer (1939–2024)
Andre Marrou
1938
American politician (born 1938)
Yvonne Minton
1938
British opera singer (born 1938)
Max Baer Jr.
1937
American actor, producer and director (born 1937)
Freddy Cannon
1936
American rock and roll singer (born 1936)
John Giorno
1936
American poet and performance artist (1936–2019)
Paul H. O'Neill
1935
American politician and businessman (1935–2020)
Bill Collins (television presenter)
1934
Australian film critic (1934–2019)
Victor French
1934
American actor and director (1934–1989)
Horst Buchholz
1933
German actor (1933–2003)
Wink Martindale
1933
American DJ and television personality (1933–2025)
Dick Ricketts
1933
American baseball and basketball player (1933–1988)
Roh Tae-woo
1932
President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993
Alex Delvecchio
1931
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1931–2025)
Wally George
1931
American television and radio commentator (1931–2003)
Ronnie Corbett
1930
Scottish comedian and actor (1930–2016)
Jim Hall (musician)
1930
American jazz guitarist, composer (1930–2013)
Şakir Eczacıbaşı
1929
Turkish pharmacist, businessman (1929–2010)
Ned Romero
1926
American actor and opera singer
Albert Bandura
1925
Canadian-American psychologist (1925–2021)
John C. Portman Jr.
1924
American architect (1924–2017)
Charles Keating
1923
American businessman (1923–2014)
Eagle Keys
1923
Canadian football player and coach (1923–2012)
John Krish
1923
British film director and screenwriter (1923–2016)
Deanna Durbin
1921
Canadian-American singer, actress (1921–2013)
Nadir Afonso
1920
Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter (1920–2013)
Michael Bates (actor)
1920
British actor (1920–1978)
Jeanne Manford
1920
American schoolteacher and activist
Inder Kumar Gujral
1919
Prime Minister of India from 1997 to 1998
Ely Jacques Kahn Jr.
1916
American writer (1916–1994)
Eddie Heywood
1915
American jazz pianist and composer (1915–1989)
Rudolf Hausner
1914
Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor
Claude Renoir
1914
French cinematographer
Mark Robson (film director)
1913
Canadian-American film director, producer, and editor (1913–1978)
Pappy Boyington
1912
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1912–1988)
Alex North
1910
American composer (1910–1991)
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
1910
President of India from 1987 to 1992
Alfred Hershey
1908
American bacteriologist and geneticist (1908–1997)
Albert Norden
1904
German politician (1904–1982)
Cornell Woolrich
1903
American novelist (1903–1968)
1800s
Karl-Günther Heimsoth
1899
German physician, polygraph and politician
Charlie Spencer
1899
English footballer (1899–1953)
Robert Redfield
1897
American anthropologist (1897–1958)
Feng Youlan
1895
Chinese philosopher and historian (1895–1990)
Herbert Read
1893
English anarchist and writer (1893–1968)
Francisco Franco
1892
Leader of Spain from 1939 to 1975
Liu Bocheng
1892
Chinese Communist military commander (1892–1986)
Winifred Carney
1887
Suffragist, trade unionist and Irish independence activist
R. C. Majumdar
1884
Indian historian and academician (1888–1980)
Katharine Susannah Prichard
1883
Australian fiction writer and dramatist
Constance Davey
1882
Australian psychologist (1882–1963)
Erwin von Witzleben
1881
Field Marshal of Nazi Germany (1881–1944)
Morris Alexander
1877
South African Jewish politician (1877–1946)
Agnes Forbes Blackadder
1875
Scottish medical doctor (1875–1964)
Joe Corbett
1875
American baseball player (1875–1945)
Rainer Maria Rilke
1875
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Jesse Burkett
1868
American baseball player (1868–1953)
Stanley Argyle
1867
Australian politician (1867–1940)
Edith Cavell
1865
British nurse (1865–1915)
Hannes Hafstein
1861
Icelandic politician (1861–1922)
Franz Xavier Wernz
1844
Samuel Butler (novelist)
1835
English novelist and critic (1835��1902)
Nikoloz Baratashvili
1817
Georgian poet (1817–1845)
Before 1800
Jules Armand Dufaure
1798
French statesman (1798–1881)
Thomas Carlyle
1795
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
Juliette Récamier
1777
French salon-holder (1777–1849)
Johann Gottfried Zinn
1727
German anatomist and botanist (1727–1759)
Gasparo Gozzi
1713
Italian literary critic (1713–1786)
John Aislabie
1670
English politician (1670–1742)
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
1667
French composer
André Campra
1660
French composer and conductor
Daniel Eberlin
1647
German Baroque composer and Kapellmeister
Jean Chapelain
1595
French poet and critic (1595–1674)
John Cotton (minister)
1585
Puritan minister in England, America (1585–1652)
Samuel Argall
1580
16/17th-century English naval officer and colonial official in Virginia
The Nun of Monza
1575
Italian nun (1575–1650)
Heinrich Meibom (poet)
1555
German historian and poet
Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche
1506
English courtier
Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe
1428
Lord of Lippe
Hasan al-Askari
846
Eleventh of the Twelve Shia Imams
AD 34
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