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Famous people born on December 12
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 12 include Gustave Flaubert (1821), Frank Sinatra (1915), Edvard Munch (1863) and Chingiz Aĭtmatov (1928). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 12 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1712 (Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine) and the most recent is 2001 (Michael Olise). The most common fields on this date: writer, football, actor.
Who was born on December 12?
- Gustave Flaubert 1821 French novelist
- Frank Sinatra 1915 American singer and actor
- Edvard Munch 1863 Norwegian painter
- Chingiz Aĭtmatov 1928 Soviet and Kyrgyz author
- Jennifer Connelly 1970 American actress
- Nikolay Karamzin 1766 Russian writer, poet, critic
- Alfred Werner 1866 Swiss chemist Nobel laureate
- Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa 1948 Portuguese politician and academic, former President of Portugal
- Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma 1791 Empress Consort of the French from 1810 to 1814 and Monarch of Parma, Piacenza and…
- Gerd von Rundstedt 1875 German Field Marshal during World War II
- Michael Olise 2001 English-French footballer
- Rajinikanth 1950 Indian actor
- Connie Francis 1937 American singer and actress
- Yasujirō Ozu 1903 Japanese film director, screenwriter
- Mayim Bialik 1975 American actress, television personality, and author
- Daniel Agger 1984 Danish association football player
- John Jay 1745 Founding Father, U.S. Chief Justice from 1789 to 1795
- Edward G. Robinson 1893 Romanian-American actor
- Erasmus Darwin 1731 English physician
- Victor Moses 1990 Nigerian association football player
- Karl Bryullov 1799 Russian painter
- Eric Maskin 1950 American Nobel laureate in economics
- Dionne Warwick 1940 American singer
- Emerson Fittipaldi 1946 Brazilian racing driver
- Bill Nighy 1949 British actor
- Vasily Grossman 1905 Russian Soviet writer and journalist
- Robert Noyce 1927 American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor…
- John Osborne 1929 English playwright
- Shogo Kamo 1915 Japanese association football player
- Juan Carlos Varela 1963 50th president of Panama
- Sophie Kinsella 1969 British writer
- Tracy Austin 1962 US tennis player
- Bob Barker 1923 American game show host
- Portia Simpson-Miller 1945 Former prime minister of Jamaica
- Marc Ravalomanana 1949 President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009
- Manu Dibango 1933 Cameroonian musician and songwriter, recording artist
- Hiromi Kojima 1977 Japanese association football player
- Mária Telkes 1900 Hungarian–American scientist and inventor
- Susanna Tamaro 1957 Italian writer
- Alexander Ypsilantis 1792 Greek general
- Mulk Raj Anand 1905 Indian English writer
- Ahmad Shamloo 1925 Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist
- Johann I of Saxony 1801 King of Saxony
- Mädchen Amick 1970 American actress
- Helen Frankenthaler 1928 American painter
- Stephen Warnock 1981 English association football player
- Lucas Hedges 1996 American actor
- Bob Pettit 1932 American basketball player and coach
- Ed Koch 1924 Former mayor of New York City
- Iolanda Balaș 1936 Romanian high jumper
- Hilla Limann 1934 Eighth President of the Republic of Ghana
- Dmitry Tursunov 1982 Russian tennis coach and former tennis player
- Regina Hall 1970 American actress
- J. Bruce Ismay 1862 Chairman of White Star shipping line
- Wilson Kipketer 1972 Kenyan and Danish middle distance runner
- Henry Armstrong 1912 American boxer
- Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine 1712 Austrian general
- Nicholas Aylward Vigors 1785 Irish zoologist and politician
- Jaime Lorente 1991 Spanish actor
- Alvin Kraenzlein 1876 American athletics competitor
- Nathaniel Chalobah 1994 English footballer
- Kader Abdolah 1954 Iranian-Dutch columnist, poet, writer
- Douwe Bob 1992 Dutch singer & songwriter
- Maren Ade 1976 German film director, screenwriter and producer
- Bernard Lagat 1974 Kenyan-born track runner competing for United States
- Seungri 1990 South Korean former singer, member of Big Bang
- Chen Ruolin 1992 Chinese diver
- Adam Larsen Kwarasey 1987 Ghanaian footballer
- Ravi Kumar Dahiya 1997 Indian freestyle wrestler
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz 1890 Polish philosopher and logician
- Kailash Purryag 1947 President of Mauritius from 2012 to 2015
- Patrick O'Brian 1914 English novelist
- Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow 1832 Norwegian mathematician
- Guilherme Marinato 1985 Russian footballer
- Hahm Eun-jung 1988 South Korean singer and actress, member of girl group T-ara
- William L. Marcy 1786 American politician
- William Henry 1774 British chemist who formulated the law on the solubility of gases into liquids
- Max Raabe 1962 German singer
- Miguel Bernardeau 1996 Spanish actor
- Bruce Kulick 1953 American guitarist
- Michael Jeffery 1937 Australian governor-general and army officer
- Silvio Santos 1930 Brazilian media entrepreneur
- Fiona May 1969 British-born Italian long jumper
- Martina Hellmann 1960 East German discus thrower
- Nolberto Solano 1974 Peruvian footballer
- Leonid Bykov 1928 Ukrainian soviet actor, film director and screenwriter
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 12 share the 12th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.