Famous December Birthdays
Who was Born in December on Your Birthday?
Do you know who was born on your birthday? There are many famous December birthdays displayed below. We hope you find famous and historic people who share your special day. See who was born in your birth month below.
Did You Know? The song “Happy Birthday to You” was first sung on June 27, 1859
Famous December Birthdays
December 1, 1913 – Mary Martin, actress, singer
December 1, 1933 – Lou Rawls, singer, blues, jazz, and pop music
December 1, 1935 – Woody Allen, Actor, director, comedian
December 1, 1936 – Lou Rawls, singer
December 1, 1939 – Lee Trevino, PGA golfer
December 1, 1940 – Richard Pryor, actor, comedian
December 1, 1945 – Bette Midler, actress, singer
December 1, 1951 – Treat Williams, actor
December 2, 1859 – Georges Seurat, painter
December 2, 1863 – Charles Ringling, formed Ringling Bros. circus
December 2, 1925 – Julie Harris, actress
December 2, 1948 – Cathy Lee Crosby, actress
December 2, 1954 – Stone Phillips, TV journalist, Dateline
December 2, 1967 – Lucy Liu, actress, movie Charlie’s Angels, Television series Elementary
December 2, 1973 – Monica Seles, champion tennis player
December 2, 1981 – Britney Spears, singer
December 3, 1895 – Anna Freud, psychoanalyst, daughter of Sigmund Freud
December 3, 1930 – Andy Williams, singer
December 3, 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, actor, singer
December 3, 1951 – Rick Mears, auto racer
December 3, 1960 – Darryl Hannah, actress, lead actress in “Splash”
December 3, 1965 – Katerina Witt, champion Olympic figure skater
December 3, 1968 – Brendan Fraser, actor, “George of the Jungle”
December 4, 1892 – Francisco Franco, Spanish Dictator
December 4, 1949 – Jeff Bridges, actor
December 4, 1964 – Marisa Tomei, actress, “Mona Lisa Vito” in the movie “My Cousin Vinny”
December 4, 1973 – Tyra Banks, model, actress
December 5, 1782 – Martin Van Buren, 8th U.S. President (1837-1841)
December 5, 1839 – George Armstrong Custer, cavalry officer, killed at the Little Big Horn
December 5, 1901 – Walt Disney, animator, entertainment, filmmaker
December 5, 1932 – “Little Richard” Penniman, singer, songwriter
December 5, 1947 – Jim Messina, singer
December 5, 1951 – Morgan Brittany, actress
December 5, 1952 – Michael Dorn, actor
December 5, 1985 – Frankie Muniz, “Malcolm” on TV series “Malcolm in the Middle”, “Agent Cody Banks”
December 6, 1886 – Joyce Kilmer, poet
December 6, 1896 – Ira Gershwin, lyricist, wrote lyrics for Brother George
December 6, 1906 – Agnes Moorehead, actress, the mother “Endora” on TV series “Bewitched”
December 6, 1920 – Dave Brubeck, jazz musician
December 6, 1955 – Stephen Wright, comedian (New York, NY)
December 6, 1957 – Andrew Cuomo, New York state governor, Clinton Administration HUD Secretary, son of Mario Cuomo
December 7, 1761 – Marie Tussaud, created “Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork Museum”
December 7, 1915 – Eli Wallach, actor
December 7, 1923 – Ted Knight, actor, news anchor on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”
December 7, 1942 – Harry Chapin, singer, songwriter
December 7, 1947 – Gregg Allman, singer, musician
December 7, 1947 – Johnny Bench, Cincinnati Reds baseball catcher
December 7, 1956 – Larry Bird, NBA Boston Celtics basketball player
December 7, 1958 – Edd Hall, “Tonight Show” announcer
December 8, 1765 – Eli Whitney, invented the cotton gin
December 8, 1894 – James Thurber, humorist
December 8, 1925 – Sammy Davis Jr., actor, singer
December 8, 1930 – Maximilian Schell, actor
December 8, 1933 – Flip Wilson, comedian
December 8, 1943 – Jim Morrison, singer, songwriter
December 8, 1953 – Kim Basinger, actress
December 8, 1964 – Teri Hatcher, actress, “Louis and Clark”, “Desperate Housewives”
December 8, 1966 – Sinead O’Connor, singer
December 9, 1608 – John Milton, poet
December 9, 1898 – Emmett Kelly, clown
December 9, 1912 – Tip O’Neill, Massachusetts Congressman, Speaker of the House
December 9, 1916 – Kirk Douglas, actor
December 9, 1922 – Redd Foxx, actor, comedian
December 9, 1928 – Dick Van Patten, actor, played the dad on “Eight is Enough”
December 9, 1930 – Buck Henry, screenwriter, “The Graduate”
December 9, 1941 -Beau Bridges, actor
December 9, 1953 – John Malkovich, actor
December 9, 1957 – Donny Osmond, singer, actor, “Donny & Marie”
December 10, 1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet
December 10, 1851 – Melvil Dewey, librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System
December 10, 1911 – Chet Huntley, newscaster, co-anchor on the “Huntley-Brinkley Report”
December 10, 1914 – Dorothy Lamour, actress, singer
December 10, 1928 – Dan Blocker, actor, “Hoss Cartwright” on TV series “Bonanza”
December 10, 1946 – Gloria Loring, actress, singer
December 10, 1952 – Susan Dey, actress
Who was born in December?
December 11, 1882 – Fiorello La Guardia, New York City Mayor
December 11, 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist
December 11, 1931 – Rita Moreno, actress, singer
December 11, 1942 – Donna Mills, actress, “Abby Fairgate” on TV series “Knots Landing”
December 11, 1944 – Brenda Lee, singer
December 11, 1945 – Teri Garr, actress
December 11, 1954 – Jermaine Jackson, singer, musician, brother of Michael Jackson
December 12, 1893 – Edward G. Robinson, actor
December 12, 1915 – Frank Sinatra, actor, singer, actor
December 12, 1923 – Bob Barker, TV game show host, “Truth or Consequences” and long-time host of “The Price is Right”
December 12, 1924 – Ed Koch, New York City mayor
December 12, 1938 – Connie Francis, singer
December 12, 1941 – Dionne Warwick, singer
December 12, 1959 – Sheila Escoveda “Sheila E”, singer
December 13, 1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States
December 13, 1913 – Archie Moore, champion boxer
December 13, 1925 – Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian
December 13, 1927 – Christopher Plummer, actor
December 13, 1941 – John Davidson, actor, singer
December 13, 1949 -Ted Nugent, singer
December 13, 1989 – Taylor Swift, singer
December 14, 1503 – Nostradamus, astrologer
December 14, 1896 – James Doolittle, World War II aviator
December 14, 1914 – Morey Amsterdam, actor, comedian, played “Buddy” on TV series “The Dick Van Dyke Show”
December 14, 1922 – Don Hewitt, TV producer
December 14, 1935 – Lee Remick, actress
December 14, 1946 – Patty Duke, actress, TV series “The Patty Duke Show”
December 15, 1832 – Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower
December 15, 1892 – J. Paul Getty, oil billionaire, philanthropist
December 15, 1916 – Maurice H. Wilkins, biophysicist, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
December 15, 1933 – Tim Conway, actor, comedian, “McHale’s Navy, “The Carol Burnett Show”
December 15, 1942 – Dave Clark, musician, leader of the “Dave Clark Five”
December 15, 1949 – Don Johnson, actor, “Miami Vice”
December 15, 1968 – Garrett Wang, actor
December 16, 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
December 16, 1901 – Margaret Mead, anthropologist
December 16, 1938 – Liv Ullmann, actress
December 16, 1941 – Lesley Stahl, TV news correspondent
December 16, 1963 – Benjamin Bratt, actor
December 16, 1987 – Hallee Hirsh, actress
December 17, 1917 – Gene Rayburn, TV personality
December 17, 193- Pope Francis
December 17, 1945 – Ernie Hudson, actor
December 17, 1954 – Bill Pullman, actor
December 18, 1886 – Ty Cobb, MLB baseball player
December 18, 1916 – Betty Grable, actress
December 18, 1947 – Steven Spielberg, director, producer
December 18, 1964 – Brad Pitt, actor
December 18, 1964 – “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, WWF wrestler
December 18, 1978 – Katie Holmes, actress
December 18, 1980 – Christina Aguilera, singer
December 19, 1790 – Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer
December 19, 1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader
December 19, 1920 – David Susskind, TV journalist, producer
December 19, 1933 – Cicely Tyson, actress
December 19, 1944 – Tim Reid, actor
December 19, 1946 – Robert Urich, actor
December 19, 1961 – Reggie White, NFL football player
December 19, 1972 – Alyssa Milano, actress
December 20, 1868 – Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer
December 20, 1898 – Irene Dunne, actress
December 20, 1952 – Jenny Agutter, actress
December 20, 1966 – Kiefer Sutherland, actor
Who was born on your December birthday?
December 21, 1879 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet Russia Dictator
December 21, 1892 – Walter Hagen, golfer
December 21, 1926 – Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach
December 21, 1935 – Phil Donahue, TV talk show host
December 21, 1937 – Jane Fonda, actress, Vietnam War protester
December 21, 1940 – Frank Zappa, musician, songwriter
December 21, 1954 – Chris Evert, champion tennis player
December 21, 1957 – Ray Romano, actor, comedian, TV series “Everyone Loves Raymond”
December 21, 1959 – Florence Griffith Joyner, champion Olympic sprinter
December 22, 1907 – Peggy Ashcroft, actress
December 22, 1912 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States
December 22, 1922 – Barbara Billingsley, actress, “June Cleaver” on TV series “Leave it to Beaver”
December 22, 1945 – Diane Sawyer, TV news correspondent, journalist
December 22, 1949 – Maurice Gibb, singer, musician, member of the “Bee Gees”, twin “Robin”
December 22, 1949 – Robin Gibb, singer, musician, member of the “Bee Gees”, twin “Maurice”
December 22, 1951 – Jan Stephenson, LPGA golfer
December 23, 1805 – Joseph Smith, founded the Mormon Church
December 23, 1860 – Harriet Monroe, poet
December 23, 1926 – Robert Bly, author
December 23, 1943 – Harry Shearer, actor, comedian
December 23, 1948 – Susan Lucci, Emmy-winning actress
December 24, 1809 – Kit Carson, frontiersman, soldier
December 24, 1818 – James Prescott Joule, physicist, inventor
December 24, 1905 – Howard Hughes, industrialist, aviator, producer, recluse
December 24, 1907 – I. F. Stone, journalist
December 24, 1922 – Ava Gardner, actress
December 24, 1931 – Mary Higgins Clark, author
December 24, 1971 – Ricky Martin, singer
December 24, 1974 – Ryan Seacrest, host of “American Idol”
December 25, 1642 – Sir Isaac Newton, scientist, mathematician
December 25, 1821 – Clara Barton, nurse, found the American Red Cross
December 25, 1899 – Humphrey Bogart, actor
December 25, 1907 – Cab Calloway, singer, bandleader
December 25, 1918 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President
December 25, 1924 – Rod Serling, host of “The Twilight Zone“
December 25, 1946 – Jimmy Buffett, singer, songwriter
December 25, 1946 – Larry Csonka, NFL Miami Dolphins Fullback
December 25, 1947 – Barbara Mandrell, singer
December 25, 1949 – Sissy Spacek, actress
December 25, 1962 – Norm McDonald, actor, comedian
December 25, 1971 – Dido, singer
December 26, 1893 – Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist Leader
December 26, 1914 – Richard Widmark, actor
December 26, 1921 – Steve Allen, TV personality
December 26, 1954 – Susan Butcher, sled dog racer
December 26, 1971 – Jared Leto, actor
December 27, 1571 – Johannes Kepler, astronomer
December 27, 1822 – Louis Pasteur, chemist, bacteriologist
December 27, 1943 – Cokie Roberts, TV journalist
December 27, 1971 – Savannah Guthrie, TV Anchor, Journalist “The Today Show”
December 28, 1763 – John Molson, founded the Molson brewery
December 28, 1856 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-1921)
December 28, 1934 – Maggie Smith, actress
December 28, 1954 – Denzel Washington, actor
December 28, 1964 – Malcolm Gets, actor
December 29, 1808 – Andrew Jackson, 17th U.S. President (1865-1869)
December 29, 1936 – Mary Tyler Moore, actress
December 29, 1938 – Jon Voight, actor
December 29, 1947 – Ted Danson, actor, TV series “Cheers”
December 30, 1865 – Rudyard Kipling, writer
December 30, 1867 – Simon Guggenheim, industrialist, philanthropist
December 30, 1914 – Bert Parks, TV personality, hosted “Miss America” pageant for 25 year
December 30, 1928 – Bo Diddley, singer, songwriter
December 30, 1935 – Sandy Koufax, MLB baseball pitcher
December 30, 1938 – Joseph Bologna, actor
December 30, 1942 – Michael Nesmith, singer, songwriter, member of the “Monkees”
December 30, 1945 – Davy Jones, singer, member of the “Monkees”
December 30, 1957 – Matt Lauer, “Today Show” TV anchor
December 30, 1959 – Tracey Ullman, actress
December 30, 1960 – Julianne Moore, actress
December 30, 1975 – Tiger Woods, PGA golfer
December 30, 1984 – LeBron James, NBA basketball player
December 31, 1869 – Henri Matisse, painter
December 31, 1880 – George Marshall, Secretary of State, developed the Marshall Plan
December 31, 1937 – Anthony Hopkins, actor
December 31, 1941 – Sarah Miles, actress
December 31, 1943 – John Denver, singer, songwriter, “Rocky Mountain High”
December 31, 1943 – Ben Kingsley, actor
December 31, 1947 – Tim Matheson, actor
December 31, 1948 – Donna Summer, singer
December 31, 1959 – Val Kilmer, actor
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