Famous People Born on December 31, December 31 Famous Birthdays
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December 31 Birthdays, Famous People born on December 31st
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Katie Volynets, American tennis player |
| 2000 | Alycia Parks, American tennis player |
| 1995 | Gabby Douglas, American gymnast |
| 1992 | Amy Cure, Australian track cyclist |
| 1992 | Karl Kruuda, Estonian racing driver |
| 1991 | ND Stevenson, American cartoonist |
| 1990 | Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater |
| 1987 | Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player |
| 1987 | Danny Holla, Dutch footballer |
| 1987 | Nemanja Nikolić, Hungarian footballer |
| 1986 | Nate Freiman, American baseball player |
| 1986 | Kade Snowden, Australian rugby league player |
| 1985 | Jonathan Horton, American gymnast |
| 1985 | Jan Smit, Dutch singer and television host |
| 1984 | Ben Hannant, Australian rugby league player |
| 1984 | Édgar Lugo, Mexican footballer |
| 1984 | Calvin Zola, Congolese footballer |
| 1982 | Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player |
| 1982 | Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer |
| 1982 | Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player |
| 1982 | The Rocket Summer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
| 1981 | Jason Campbell, American football player |
| 1981 | Matthew Pavlich, Australian footballer |
| 1981 | Margaret Simpson, Ghanaian heptathlete |
| 1981 | Ricky Whittle, English actor |
| 1980 | Jesse Carlson, American baseball player |
| 1980 | Matt Cross, American wrestler |
| 1980 | Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player |
| 1980 | Carsten Schlangen, German runner |
| 1979 | Jeff Waldstreicher, American lawyer and politician |
| 1977 | Wardy Alfaro, Costa Rican footballer and coach |
| 1977 | Psy, South Korean musician |
| 1977 | Donald Trump Jr., American businessman and son of U.S. President Donald Trump |
| 1976 | Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (d. 2012) |
| 1976 | Matthew Hoggard, English cricketer |
| 1975 | Rami Alanko, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 1975 | Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer and coach |
| 1975 | Rob Penders, Dutch footballer |
| 1975 | Sander Schutgens, Dutch runner |
| 1974 | Joe Abercrombie, English author |
| 1974 | Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist |
| 1974 | Tony Kanaan, Brazilian race car driver |
| 1974 | Ryan Sakoda, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer |
| 1973 | Shandon Anderson, American basketball player |
| 1973 | Malcolm Middleton, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1973 | Curtis Myden, Canadian swimmer |
| 1972 | Grégory Coupet, French footballer |
| 1972 | Joey McIntyre, American singer-songwriter and actor |
| 1972 | Scott Manley, Scottish YouTube personality |
| 1971 | Brent Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster |
| 1971 | Esteban Loaiza, Mexican baseball player |
| 1970 | Jorge Alberto da Costa Silva, Brazilian footballer |
| 1970 | Danny McNamara, English singer-songwriter |
| 1970 | Carlos Morales Quintana, Spanish-Danish architect and sailor |
| 1970 | Bryon Russell, American basketball player |
| 1968 | Gerry Dee, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter |
| 1968 | Junot Diaz, Dominican-born American novelist, short story writer, and essayist |
| 1967 | Paul McGregor, Australian rugby league player and coach |
| 1965 | Tony Dorigo, Australian-English footballer and sportscaster |
| 1965 | Julie Doucet, Canadian cartoonist and author |
| 1965 | Gong Li, Chinese actress |
| 1965 | Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Indian cricketer |
| 1965 | Nicholas Sparks, American author, screenwriter, and producer |
| 1964 | Winston Benjamin, Antiguan cricketer |
| 1964 | Michael McDonald, American comedian, actor, and director |
| 1963 | Scott Ian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1962 | Tyrone Corbin, American basketball player and coach |
| 1962 | Chris Hallam, English-Welsh swimmer and wheelchair racer (d. 2013) |
| 1962 | Jennifer Higdon, American composer |
| 1961 | Rick Aguilera, American baseball player and coach |
| 1961 | Jeremy Heywood, English economist and civil servant (d. 2018) |
| 1961 | Nina Li Chi, Hong Kong actress |
| 1960 | Steve Bruce, English footballer and manager |
| 1959 | Liveris Andritsos, Greek basketball player |
| 1959 | Val Kilmer, American actor |
| 1959 | Phill Kline, American lawyer and politician, Kansas Attorney General |
| 1959 | Baron Waqa, Nauruan composer and politician, 14th President of Nauru |
| 1959 | Paul Westerberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1958 | Geoff Marsh, Australian cricketer and coach |
| 1958 | Bebe Neuwirth, American actress and dancer |
| 1956 | Robert Goodwill, English farmer and politician |
| 1956 | Helma Knorscheidt, German shot putter |
| 1956 | Steve Rude, American author and illustrator |
| 1954 | Alex Salmond, Scottish economist and politician, 4th First Minister of Scotland |
| 1954 | Hermann Tilke, German racing driver, architect and engineer |
| 1953 | Jane Badler, American actress |
| 1952 | Vaughan Jones, New Zealand mathematician and academic (d. 2020) |
| 1952 | Jean-Pierre Rives, French rugby player, painter, and sculptor |
| 1951 | Tom Hamilton, American bass player and songwriter |
| 1951 | Kenny Roberts, American motorcycle racer |
| 1950 | Bob Gilder, American golfer |
| 1950 | Inge Helten, German sprinter |
| 1950 | Cheryl Womack, American businesswoman |
| 1949 | Ellen Datlow, American anthologist and author |
| 1949 | Flora Gomes, Bissau-Guinean filmmaker |
| 1949 | Susan Shwartz, American author |
| 1948 | Joe Dallesandro, American actor |
| 1948 | Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2014) |
| 1948 | Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012) |
| 1947 | Burton Cummings, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player |
| 1947 | Rita Lee, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress |
| 1947 | Tim Matheson, American actor, director, and producer |
| 1946 | Roy Greenslade, English journalist and academic |
| 1946 | Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer and coach |
| 1946 | Raphael Kaplinsky, South African international development academic |
| 1946 | Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean archbishop |
| 1946 | Lyudmila Pakhomova, Russian ice dancer (d. 1986) |
| 1946 | Cliff Richey, American tennis player |
| 1946 | Eric Robson, Scottish journalist and author |
| 1946 | Nigel Rudd, English businessman, founded Williams Holdings |
| 1946 | Tim Stevens, English bishop |
| 1946 | Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer |
| 1945 | Connie Willis, American author |
| 1944 | Taylor Hackford, American director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1943 | John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1997) |
| 1943 | Ben Kingsley, English actor |
| 1943 | Pete Quaife, English bass player, author, and artist (d. 2010) |
| 1942 | Andy Summers, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer |
| 1941 | Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager |
| 1941 | Sarah Miles, English actress |
| 1940 | Mani Neumeier, German drummer |
| 1939 | Willye White, American sprinter and long jumper (d. 2007) |
| 1938 | Rosalind Cash, American singer and actress (d. 1995) |
| 1938 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (d. 2013) |
| 1937 | Avram Hershko, Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1937 | Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor, director, and composer |
| 1937 | Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 2019) |
| 1937 | Tess Jaray, Austrian-English painter and educator |
| 1935 | Salman of Saudi Arabia, King of Saudi Arabia |
| 1934 | Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian author, poet, and scholar (d. 2017) |
| 1933 | Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005) |
| 1932 | Don James, American football player and coach (d. 2013) |
| 1932 | Felix Rexhausen, German journalist and author (d. 1992) |
| 1931 | Bob Shaw, Northern Irish journalist and author (d. 1996) |
| 1930 | Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (d. 2008) |
| 1930 | Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (d. 2010) |
| 1929 | Mies Bouwman, Dutch television host (d. 2018) |
| 1929 | Peter May, English cricketer (d. 1994) |
| 1928 | Ross Barbour, American pop singer (d. 2011) |
| 1928 | Hugh McElhenny, American football player (d. 2022) |
| 1928 | Veijo Meri, Finnish author and translator (d. 2015) |
| 1928 | Tatyana Shmyga, Russian actress and singer (d. 2011) |
| 1928 | Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016) |
| 1926 | Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic (d. 2016) |
| 1926 | Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia (d. 1987) |
| 1925 | Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (d. 2013) |
| 1925 | Sri Lal Sukla, Indian author (d. 2011) |
| 1925 | Daphne Oram, British composer and electronic musician (d. 2003) |
| 1924 | Taylor Mead, American actor and poet (d. 2013) |
| 1923 | Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010) |
| 1922 | Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (d. 2014) |
| 1922 | Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Polish pianist and educator (d. 2001) |
| 1922 | Luis Zuloaga, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2013) |
| 1920 | Rex Allen, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 1999) |
| 1919 | Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, coach, and politician (d. 2007) |
| 1919 | Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2017) |
| 1918 | Ray Graves, American football player and coach (d. 2015) |
| 1917 | Evelyn Knight, American singer (d. 2007) |
| 1917 | Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962) |
| 1915 | Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1996) |
| 1914 | Mary Logan Reddick, American neuroembryologist (d. 1966) |
| 1912 | John Frost, Indian-English general (d. 1993) |
| 1911 | Dal Stivens, Australian soldier and author (d. 1997) |
| 1910 | Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 1910 | Enrique Maier, Spanish tennis player (d. 1981) |
| 1909 | Jonah Jones, American trumpet player and saxophonist (d. 2000) |
| 1908 | Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter and author (d. 2005) |
| 1905 | Helen Dodson Prince, American astronomer and academic (d. 2002) |
| 1905 | Jule Styne, English-American composer (d. 1994) |
| 1903 | William Heynes, English engineer (d. 1989) |
| 1902 | Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1982) |
| 1902 | Roy Goodall, English footballer (d. 1982) |
| 1901 | Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984) |
| 1901 | Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek educator and politician (d. 1954) |
| 1899 | Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1940) |
| 1885 | Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970) |
| 1884 | Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (d. 1964) |
| 1884 | Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1960) |
| 1881 | Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (d. 1955) |
| 1880 | Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (d. 1957) |
| 1880 | George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) |
| 1878 | Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (d. 1966) |
| 1878 | Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1937) |
| 1877 | Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967) |
| 1874 | Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (d. 1937) |
| 1873 | Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1936) |
| 1872 | Fred Marriott, American race car driver (d. 1956) |
| 1869 | Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954) |
| 1864 | Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer and academic (d. 1951) |
| 1860 | Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (d. 1937) |
| 1857 | King Kelly, American baseball player and manager (d. 1894) |
| 1855 | Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1912) |
| 1851 | Henry Carter Adams, American economist and academic (d. 1921) |
| 1842 | Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (d. 1931) |
| 1838 | Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 7th President of France (d. 1929) |
| 1834 | Queen Kapiolani of Hawaii (d. 1899) |
| 1833 | Hugh Nelson Scottish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (d. 1906) |
| 1830 | Alexander Smith, Scottish poet and critic (d. 1867) |
| 1815 | George Meade, American general and engineer (d. 1872) |
| 1798 | Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian physician, philologist, and academic (d. 1850) |
| 1776 | Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist (d. 1832) |
| 1763 | Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) |
| 1741 | Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic (d. 1794) |
| 1738 | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of India (d. 1805) |
| 1720 | Charles Edward Stuart, Scottish claimant to the throne of England (d. 1788) |
| 1714 | Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician and educator (d. 1783) |
| 1668 | Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (d. 1738) |
| 1585 | Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1645) |
| 1572 | Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan, (d. 1617) |
| 1552 | Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611) |
| 1550 | Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588) |
| 1539 | John Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1568) |
| 1514 | Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (d. 1564) |
| 1504 | Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1538) |
| 1493 | Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino (d. 1570) |
| 1491 | Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (d. 1557) |
| 1378 | Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458) |
| 695 | Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, Umayyad general (d. 715) |
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