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Famous December Birthdays

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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

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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



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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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