Births on 7 December
2000s
Torri Huske
2002
American swimmer (born 2002)
Jalen McMillan
2001
American football player (born 2001)
Dane Belton
2000
American football player (born 2000)
1900s
Boo Buie
1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Pavol Regenda
1999
Slovak ice hockey player (born 1999)
Tony Yike Yang
1998
Canadian-Chinese pianist (born 1998)
Abi Harrison
1997
Scottish footballer
Tommy Nelson (actor)
1997
American actor (born 1997)
Pete Alonso
1994
American baseball player (born 1994)
Geno Chiarelli
1994
American politician
Yuzuru Hanyu
1994
Japanese figure skater (born 1994)
Hunter Henry
1994
American football player (born 1994)
Rahama Sadau
1993
Nigerian actress, filmmaker and singer (born 1993)
Alex Singleton (linebacker)
1993
American gridiron football player (born 1993)
Sean Couturier
1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Eugenio Pisani
1991
Italian auto racing driver from Ravenna (born 1991)
Chris Wood (footballer, born 1991)
1991
New Zealand footballer
Cameron Bairstow
1990
Australian basketball player (born 1990)
David Goffin
1990
Belgian tennis player (born 1990)
Aleksandr Menkov
1990
Russian long jumper (born 1990)
Yasiel Puig
1990
Cuban-American baseball player (born 1990)
Urszula Radwańska
1990
Polish tennis player (born 1990)
Kyle Hendricks
1989
American baseball player (born 1989)
Nicholas Hoult
1989
English actor (born 1989)
Philip Larsen
1989
Danish ice hockey player (born 1989)
Alessandro Marchi
1989
Italian footballer (born 1989)
Kevin Séraphin
1989
French basketball player (born 1989)
Nathan Adrian
1988
American swimmer (born 1988)
Emily Browning
1988
Australian actress (born 1988)
Angelina Gabueva
1988
Russian tennis player
Andrew Goudelock
1988
American professional basketball player
Aaron Carter
1987
American singer (1987–2022)
Billy Horschel
1986
American professional golfer (born 1986)
Nita Strauss
1986
American guitarist (born 1986)
Jon Moxley
1985
American professional wrestler (born 1985)
Aaron Gray
1984
American basketball player (born 1984)
Robert Kubica
1984
Polish racing and rally driver (born 1984)
Milan Michálek
1984
Czech ice hockey player (born 1984)
Luca Rigoni
1984
Italian footballer (born 1984)
Mike Mucitelli
1983
American mixed martial arts fighter
Al Thornton
1983
American basketball player (born 1983)
Lou Amundson
1982
American basketball player (born 1982)
Jack Huston
1982
English actor
Dan Bilzerian
1980
American influencer (born 1980)
John Terry
1980
English footballer (born 1980)
Sara Bareilles
1979
American musician and actress (born 1979)
Jennifer Carpenter
1979
American actress (born 1979)
Lampros Choutos
1979
Greek retired footballer
Ayako Fujitani
1979
Japanese writer and actress
Shiri Appleby
1978
American actress
Suzannah Lipscomb
1978
British historian and television presenter
Eric Chavez
1977
American baseball player and coach (born 1977)
Luke Donald
1977
English professional golfer (born 1977)
Dominic Howard
1977
English drummer
Alan Faneca
1976
American football player (born 1976)
Ivan Franceschini
1976
Italian football coach and former player
Georges Laraque
1976
Canadian politician and ice hockey player
Derek Ramsay
1976
Filipino actor and model (born 1976)
Sunny Sweeney
1976
American singer–songwriter
Benoît Tréluyer
1976
French racing driver
Joris Vandenbroucke
1976
Belgian politician (born 1976)
Jamie Clapham
1975
English footballer (born 1975)
Mia Love
1975
American politician (1975–2025)
Nicole Appleton
1974
Canadian-born English singer (born 1974)
Manuel Martínez (athlete)
1974
Spanish shot putter (born 1974)
İbrahim Kutluay
1973
Turkish basketball player (born 1974)
Hack Meyers
1973
American professional wrestler
Terrell Owens
1973
American football player (born 1973)
Fabien Pelous
1973
France international rugby union player (born 1973)
Damien Rice
1973
Irish singer-songwriter
Hermann Maier
1972
Austrian alpine skier (born 1972)
Tammy Lynn Sytch
1972
American professional wrestling personality (born 1972)
Vladimir Akopian
1971
Armenian chess grandmaster (born 1971)
Mark Geyer
1967
Australian rugby league footballer
Tino Martinez
1967
American baseball player (born 1967)
Nina Turner
1967
American politician (born 1967)
C. Thomas Howell
1966
American actor (born 1966)
Shinichi Ito
1966
Japanese motorcycle racer
Kazue Itō
1966
Japanese actress (born 1966)
Andres Kasekamp
1966
Estonian historian
Louise Post
1966
American singer and guitarist
Deborah Bassett
1965
Australian rower (born 1965)
Colin Hendry
1965
Scottish football coach and player
Jeffrey Wright
1965
American actor (born 1965)
Hugo Blick
1964
British actor and filmmaker (born 1964)
Patrick Fabian
1964
American actor (born 1964)
Peter Laviolette
1964
American ice hockey player and coach
Theo Snelders
1963
Dutch former professional footballer (born 1963)
Katsuya Terada
1963
Japanese illustrator and cartoonist
Barbara Weathers
1963
American musician
Alain Blondel
1962
French decathlete
Jeffrey Donaldson
1962
Northern Irish politician (born 1962)
Imad Mughniyeh
1962
Lebanese militant leader (1962–2008)
Craig Scanlon
1960
Musical artist
Saleem Yousuf
1959
Pakistani cricketer (born 1959)
Tim Butler
1958
English songwriter and musician
Rick Rude
1958
American professional wrestler (1958–1999)
Geoff Lawson (cricketer)
1957
Australian cricketer
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
1957
President of the 74th UN General Assembly
Tom Winsor
1957
British civil servant (born 1957)
Larry Bird
1956
American basketball player (born 1956)
Chuy Bravo
1956
Mexican-American entertainer and actor (1956–2019)
Iveta Radičová
1956
Slovak politician and sociologist, former prime minister
Anna Soubry
1956
British politician, barrister and journalist (born 1956)
John Watkins (Australian politician)
1955
Australian politician
Mary Fallin
1954
American politician (born 1954)
Mark Hofmann
1954
American murderer who forged Mormon documents
Susan Collins
1952
American politician (born 1952)
Eckhard Märzke
1952
German footballer
Davinder Singh (field hockey)
1952
Indian field hockey player (1952–2026)
Ron Hynes
1950
Canadian singer-songwriter (1950–2015)
James Rivière
1949
Italian artist, designer, and sculptor (born 1949)
Tom Waits
1949
American singer, songwriter, composer and actor (born 1949)
Gary Morris
1948
American musician (born 1948)
Tony Thomas (producer)
1948
American producer
Johnny Bench
1947
American baseball player (born 1947)
Anne Fine
1947
British children's and adult writer (born 1947)
James Keach
1947
American actor (born 1947)
Garry Unger
1947
Canadian ice hockey player
Daniel Chorzempa
1944
American organist (1944–2023)
Miroslav Macek
1944
Czech politician and author (1944–2024)
Susan Isaacs
1943
American novelist (born 1943)
Jóhann Ársælsson
1943
Icelandic politician (born 1943)
Nick Katz
1943
American mathematician (born 1943)
Bernard C. Parks
1943
American politician and former police chief in Los Angeles (born 1943)
John Bennett Ramsey
1943
American businessman and father of JonBenèt Ramsey (born 1943)
Harry Chapin
1942
American singer-songwriter and activist (1942–1981)
Alex Johnson
1942
American baseball player (1942–2015)
Reginald Lewis
1942
American businessman (1942–1993)
Peter Tomarken
1942
American television personality (1942–2006)
Melba Pattillo Beals
1941
American journalist and college educator
Gerry Cheevers
1940
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1940)
Stan Boardman
1937
English stand-up comedian
Thad Cochran
1937
American attorney and politician (1937–2019)
Kenneth Colley
1937
English actor (1937–2025)
Martha Layne Collins
1936
American politician (1936–2025)
Armando Manzanero
1935
Mexican singer-songwriter and composer (1934–2020)
Krsto Papić
1933
Ellen Burstyn
1932
American actress (born 1932)
Oktay Ekşi
1932
Turkish politician
Rosemary Rogers
1932
British-American romance novelist (1932–2019)
J. B. Sumarlin
1932
Indonesian politician (1932–2020)
Bobby Whitton
1932
Australian rugby league footballer
Allan B. Calhamer
1931
Board game designer (1931–2013)
Bobby Osborne
1931
American musician (1931–2023)
Christopher Nicole
1930
British writer
Hal W. Smith
1930
American baseball player (1930–2020)
Noam Chomsky
1928
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
Mickey Thompson
1928
American racing driver (1928–1988)
Jack S. Blanton
1927
American businessman (1927–2013)
Helen Watts
1927
Welsh contralto
William John McNaughton
1926
Catholic bishop (1926–2020)
Hermano da Silva Ramos
1925
French-Brazilian racing driver (born 1925)
Max Zaslofsky
1925
American basketball player and coach (1925–1985)
Bent Fabric
1924
Danish pianist and composer (1924–2020)
John Love (racing driver)
1924
Rhodesian racing driver (1924–2005)
Mary Ellen Rudin
1924
American mathematician (1924–2013)
Mário Soares
1924
Portuguese statesman (1924–2017)
Intizar Hussain
1923
Writer and novelist (1925–2016)
Pramukh Swami Maharaj
1921
Indian guru (1921–2016)
Tatamkhulu Afrika
1920
Poet, writer and anti-apartheid activist (1920–2002)
Fiorenzo Magni
1920
Italian cyclist
Walter Nowotny
1920
German fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient
Leigh Brackett
1915
American novelist and screenwriter (1915–1978)
Eli Wallach
1915
American actor (1915–2014)
Kersti Merilaas
1913
Estonian poet and translator
Daniel Jones (composer)
1912
Welsh composer (1912–1993)
Duncan McNaughton
1910
Canadian athlete (1910–1998)
Louis Prima
1910
American musician (1910–1978)
Nikola Vaptsarov
1909
20th-century Bulgarian poet and communist revolutionary
Fred Rose (politician)
1907
Canadian politician (1907–1983)
Erika Fuchs
1906
German translator (1906–2005)
Gerard Kuiper
1905
Dutch astronomer (1905–1973)
Clarence Nash
1904
American voice actor (1904–1985)
Danilo Blanuša
1903
Croatian Serb mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1903–1987)
Hilda Taba
1902
Estonian architect and educator (1902–1967)
Kateryna Bilokur
1900
Ukrainian artist (1900–1961)
1800s
Freddie Adkins
1894
British comics artist
Fay Bainter
1893
American actress (1893–1968)
Hermann Balck
1893
German Army general
Stuart Davis (painter)
1892
American painter (1892–1964)
Joyce Cary
1888
Anglo-Irish writer (1888–1957)
Hamilton Fish III
1888
American politician (1888–1991)
Ernst Toch
1887
Austrian composer (1887–1964)
Mason Phelps
1885
American golfer
Peter Sturholdt
1885
American boxer
John Carpenter (athlete)
1884
American sprinter (1884–1933)
Rudolf Friml
1879
Czech composer (1879–1972)
Yosano Akiko
1878
Japanese tanka poet
Willa Cather
1873
American writer (1873–1947)
Frank Laver
1869
Australian cricketer (1869–1919)
Felix Calonder
1863
Swiss politician (1863–1952)
Pietro Mascagni
1863
Italian composer (1863–1945)
Richard Warren Sears
1863
American businessman, founder of Sears
Paul Adam (French novelist)
1862
French novelist (1862–1920)
Henri Mathias Berthelot
1861
French general (1861–1931)
Joseph Cook
1860
Prime Minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914
Thomas Bent
1838
Australian politician (1838–1909)
Leopold Kronecker
1823
German mathematician (1823–1891)
Josef Hyrtl
1810
Austrian anatomist (1810–1894)
Theodor Schwann
1810
German physiologist (1810–1882)
Johann Nestroy
1801
Austrian playwright, actor and singer
Before 1800
Abraham Jacob van der Aa
1792
Dutch writer and academic
Ferenc Novák (writer)
1791
Hungarian Slovene Roman Catholic priest and writer
Allan Cunningham (author)
1784
Scottish poet and author (1784–1842)
Claude-Victor Perrin
1764
French military commander (1764–1841)
John Littlejohn (preacher)
1756
American tradesman, preacher, and politician (1756–1836)
Giovanni Battista Falda
1643
Italian painter (1643–1678)
Bernardo Pasquini
1637
Italian composer (1637–1710)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
1598
Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
Injo of Joseon
1595
King of Joseon from 1623 to 1649
Kikkawa Hiroie
1561
Japanese daimyō (1561–1625)
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1545
King consort of Scotland from 1565 to 1567
Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein
1532
Azzone Visconti
1302
Milanese nobleman
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr
967
Persian poet and Sufi mystic (967–1049)
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
903
Persian astronomer (903–986)
Columba
521
Irish missionary monk, one of Ireland's three patron saints