Month: December

Famous people born in January are Isaac Newton, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Walt Disney, Louis Pasteur,

December 1

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)

Born: December 1, 1617

Died: April 1, 1682

Would be 409 years

Néstor Carbonell

American actor

Born: December 1, 1967

🎂 Turns 59 years

Sun Yang

Chinese swimmer

Born: December 1, 1991

🎂 Turns 35 years

Zhu De

December 2

Georges Seurat

French painter (1859-1891)

Born: December 2, 1859

Died: March 29, 1891

Would be 167 years

Nelly Furtado

Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter

Born: December 2, 1978

🎂 Turns 48 years

Lucy Liu

American actress

Born: December 2, 1968

🎂 Turns 58 years

December 3

Viktor Gorbatko

Soviet cosmonaut (1934-2017)

Born: December 3, 1934

Died: May 17, 2017

Would be 92 years

Franz Klammer

Austrian skier and Olympic champion

Born: December 3, 1953

🎂 Turns 73 years

Katarina Witt

German figure skater

Born: December 3, 1965

🎂 Turns 61 years

December 4

Roberta Bondar

Canadian astronaut

Born: December 4, 1945

🎂 Turns 81 years

Wassily Kandinsky

avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866–1944)

Born: December 4, 1866

Died: December 13, 1944

Would be 160 years

Marisa Tomei

American actress (born 1964)

Born: December 4, 1964

🎂 Turns 62 years

December 5

Walt Disney

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

Born: December 5, 1901

Died: December 15, 1966

Would be 125 years

Pope Julius II

pope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513 (1443–1513)

Born: December 5, 1443

Died: February 21, 1513

Would be 583 years

Nick Stahl

American actor

Born: December 5, 1979

🎂 Turns 47 years

December 6

Yoshihide Suga

Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021

Born: December 6, 1948

🎂 Turns 78 years

December 7

Yuzuru Hanyu

Japanese figure skater (born 1994)

Born: December 7, 1994

🎂 Turns 32 years

Mark Duplass

American actor and director

Born: December 7, 1976

🎂 Turns 50 years

Nicholas Hoult

English actor (born 1989)

Born: December 7, 1989

🎂 Turns 37 years

December 8

Eli Whitney

American inventor (1765-1825)

Born: December 8, 1765

Died: January 8, 1825

Would be 261 years

Jacques Hadamard

French mathematician (1865–1963)

Born: December 8, 1865

Died: October 17, 1963

Would be 161 years

Diego Rivera

Mexican muralist (1886–1957)

Born: December 8, 1886

Died: November 25, 1957

Would be 140 years

December 9

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

Born: December 9, 1868

Died: January 29, 1934

Would be 158 years

Michael Nouri

American actor

Born: December 9, 1945

🎂 Turns 81 years

103

Kirk Douglas

American stage and film actor (1916–2020)

Born: December 9, 1916

Died: February 5, 2020

Would be 110 years

December 10

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician (1815–1852)

Born: December 10, 1815

Died: November 27, 1852

Would be 211 years

Michael Clarke Duncan

American actor (1957–2012)

Born: December 10, 1957

Died: September 3, 2012

Would be 69 years

Kenneth Branagh

British actor and filmmaker (born 1960)

Born: December 10, 1960

🎂 Turns 66 years

December 11

Pope Leo X

pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475–1521)

Born: December 11, 1475

Died: December 1, 1521

Would be 551 years

Jack Griffo

American actor

Born: December 11, 1996

🎂 Turns 30 years

Jean Marais

French actor and theatre director (1913-1998)

Born: December 11, 1913

Died: November 8, 1998

Would be 113 years

December 12

Alexander I of Russia

The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)

Born: December 12, 1777

Died: November 19, 1825

Would be 249 years

Mayim Bialik

American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)

Born: December 12, 1975

🎂 Turns 51 years

Lucas Hedges

American actor

Born: December 12, 1996

🎂 Turns 30 years

December 13

Frida Hansdotter

Swedish female alpine skier

Born: December 13, 1985

🎂 Turns 41 years

Pope Sixtus V

pope of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590

Born: December 13, 1520

Died: August 27, 1590

Would be 506 years

Heinrich Heine

German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

Born: December 13, 1797

Died: February 17, 1856

Would be 229 years

George Shultz

December 14

Hans von Ohain

German aerospace engineer (1911-1998)

Born: December 14, 1911

Died: March 13, 1998

Would be 115 years

Natascha McElhone

British actress

Born: December 14, 1971

🎂 Turns 55 years

Lee Remick

American actress (1935-1991)

Born: December 14, 1935

Died: July 2, 1991

Would be 91 years

December 15

Michelle Dockery

British actress

Born: December 15, 1981

🎂 Turns 45 years

Gustave Eiffel

French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)

Born: December 15, 1832

Died: December 27, 1923

Would be 194 years

Henri Becquerel

French physicist (1852–1908)

Born: December 15, 1852

Died: August 25, 1908

Would be 174 years

Annalena Baerbock

December 16

Lei Jun

cofounder and ceo at xiaomi corporation

Born: December 16, 1969

🎂 Turns 57 years

Donovan Bailey

Canadian athlete, Olympic medalist

Born: December 16, 1967

🎂 Turns 59 years

Miranda Otto

Australian actress

Born: December 16, 1967

🎂 Turns 59 years

December 17

Humphry Davy

British chemist

Born: December 17, 1778

Died: May 29, 1829

Would be 248 years

Joseph Henry

American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian (1797-1878)

Born: December 17, 1797

Died: May 13, 1878

Would be 229 years

David Rudisha

Kenyan middle distance runner

Born: December 17, 1988

🎂 Turns 38 years

December 18

Boris Volynov

Soviet cosmonaut

Born: December 18, 1934

🎂 Turns 92 years

Paul Klee

German-Swiss artist (1879–1940)

Born: December 18, 1879

Died: June 29, 1940

Would be 147 years

Ossie Davis

American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist (1917-2005)

Born: December 18, 1917

Died: February 4, 2005

Would be 109 years

December 19

Alberto Tomba

Italian alpine ski racer

Born: December 19, 1966

🎂 Turns 60 years

Édith Piaf

French singer (1915–1963)

Born: December 19, 1915

Died: October 10, 1963

Would be 111 years

Jean Genet

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)

Born: December 19, 1910

Died: April 14, 1986

Would be 116 years

Leonid Brezhnev

December 20

Nicole de Boer

Canadian actress

Born: December 20, 1970

🎂 Turns 56 years

Kylian Mbappé

French footballer (born 1998)

Born: December 20, 1998

🎂 Turns 28 years

Geoffrey Howe

British politician (1926–2015)

Born: December 20, 1926

Died: October 9, 2015

Would be 100 years

Robert Menzies

December 21

Masaccio

Italian painter (1401-1428)

Born: December 21, 1401

Died: January 1, 1428

Would be 625 years

Florence Griffith Joyner

American track and field athlete (1959-1998)

Born: December 21, 1959

Died: September 21, 1998

Would be 67 years

Kaitlyn Dever

American actress (born 1996)

Born: December 21, 1996

🎂 Turns 30 years

December 22

Yuri Malenchenko

Russian cosmonaut

Born: December 22, 1961

🎂 Turns 65 years

Jean-Michel Basquiat

American artist (1960–1988)

Born: December 22, 1960

Died: August 12, 1988

Would be 66 years

Petra Majdič

cross-country skier

Born: December 22, 1979

🎂 Turns 47 years

December 23

Madam C. J. Walker

American entrepreneur (1867-1919)

Born: December 23, 1867

Died: May 25, 1919

Would be 159 years

December 24

Howard Hughes

American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)

Born: December 24, 1905

Died: April 5, 1976

Would be 121 years

Neeraj Chopra

Indian male javelin thrower

Born: December 24, 1997

🎂 Turns 29 years

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Prime Minister of India (1996, 1998–2004)

Born: December 24, 1924

Died: August 16, 2018

Would be 102 years

December 25

Ernst Ruska

German physicist (1906–1988)

Born: December 25, 1906

Died: May 27, 1988

Would be 120 years

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

Born: December 25, 1642

Died: March 31, 1727

Would be 384 years

Ghislaine Maxwell

British socialite and sex trafficker, daughter of Robert Maxwell, accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein

Born: December 25, 1961

🎂 Turns 65 years

December 26

Charles Babbage

English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)

Born: December 26, 1791

Died: October 18, 1871

Would be 235 years

Aksel Lund Svindal

Norwegian alpine skier

Born: December 26, 1982

🎂 Turns 44 years

Kit Harington

English actor

Born: December 26, 1986

🎂 Turns 40 years

December 27

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

Born: December 27, 1822

Died: September 28, 1895

Would be 204 years

Larisa Latynina

Russian gymnast

Born: December 27, 1934

🎂 Turns 92 years

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Jamaican track and field sprinter

Born: December 27, 1986

🎂 Turns 40 years

December 28

Dhirubhai Ambani

Indian business tycoon (1932–2002)

Born: December 28, 1932

Died: July 6, 2002

Would be 94 years

Ratan Tata

Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1937–2024)

Born: December 28, 1937

Died: October 9, 2024

Would be 89 years

Linus Torvalds

Finnish software engineer

Born: December 28, 1969

🎂 Turns 57 years

December 29

Charles Goodyear

American inventor (1800-1860)

Born: December 29, 1800

Died: July 1, 1860

Would be 226 years

Thomas Bach

German fencer, lawyer and sports official; 9th president of the International Olympic Committee since 2013

Born: December 29, 1953

🎂 Turns 73 years

Mekhi Phifer

American actor

Born: December 29, 1974

🎂 Turns 52 years

December 30

Sergei Korolev

Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)

Born: December 30, 1906

Died: January 14, 1966

Would be 120 years

Patti Smith

American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)

Born: December 30, 1946

🎂 Turns 80 years

Tu Youyou

Chinese medical scientist

Born: December 30, 1930

🎂 Turns 96 years

December 31

Henri Matisse

French artist (1869–1954)

Born: December 31, 1869

Died: November 3, 1954

Would be 157 years

Gong Li

Chinese-Singaporean actress

Born: December 31, 1965

🎂 Turns 61 years

Wang Yaping

Chinese military pilot and astronaut

Born: December 31, 1979

🎂 Turns 47 years