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Famous people born on December 19

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Well-known people born on December 19 include Édith Piaf (1915), Karim Benzema (1987), Albert Abraham Michelson (1852) and Pratibha Patil (1934). Our list below has 87 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 19 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1594 (Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden) and the most recent is 2001 (Lena Oberdorf). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, politician.

Who was born on December 19?

  1. Édith Piaf 1915 French singer
  2. Karim Benzema 1987 French footballer
  3. Albert Abraham Michelson 1852 American physicist
  4. Pratibha Patil 1934 President of India from 2007 to 2012
  5. Jake Gyllenhaal 1980 American actor
  6. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden 1594 Swedish king (regent 1611–1632)
  7. Philip V of Spain 1683 King of Spain from 1700 to 1746
  8. Lee Myung-bak 1941 President of South Korea from 2008 to 2013
  9. Alexis Sánchez 1988 Chilean footballer
  10. Alyssa Milano 1972 American actress
  11. Mileva Marić 1875 Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein
  12. Eric Allin Cornell 1961 American physicist, professor
  13. Jean Genet 1910 French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
  14. Italo Svevo 1861 Italian writer
  15. Gary Cahill 1985 English association football player
  16. Ryan Babel 1986 Dutch association football player
  17. Tadanari Lee 1985 Japanese association football player
  18. Arvydas Sabonis 1964 Lithuanian basketball player and executive
  19. Til Schweiger 1963 German actor
  20. Franck Kessié 1996 Ivorian association football player
  21. Jasmila Žbanić 1974 Bosnian film director
  22. Jennifer Beals 1963 African-American actress
  23. Marie Thérèse of France 1778 French Madame Royale
  24. Brandon Sanderson 1975 American fantasy writer
  25. Ralph Richardson 1902 British actor
  26. Richard Leakey 1944 Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician
  27. Yasuhito Suzuki 1959 Japanese association football player
  28. George Davis Snell 1903 American geneticist
  29. Antonín Zápotocký 1884 Czech politician
  30. Michel Tournier 1924 French writer
  31. Mbaye Niang 1994 Senegalese and French footballer
  32. Eleanor H. Porter 1868 American novelist
  33. Jake Wesley Rogers 1996 American pop musician and songwriter
  34. Gabriel Magalhães 1997 Brazilian footballer
  35. Fikayo Tomori 1997 English association football player
  36. Abigail Johnson 1961 American businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaire
  37. Criss Angel 1967 American illusionist
  38. Iker Muníain 1992 Spanish association football player
  39. Richard Hammond 1969 English motoring journalist and broadcaster
  40. Milan Milutinović 1942 2nd President of Serbia
  41. Tero Pitkämäki 1982 Finnish javelin thrower
  42. Kevin McHale 1957 American basketball player
  43. King Oliver 1881 American jazz cornet player and bandleader
  44. Steven Berghuis 1991 Dutch association football player
  45. Alberto Tomba 1966 Italian alpine ski racer
  46. Mari Kawamura 1988 Japanese association football player
  47. Phil Ochs 1940 American protest singer and songwriter
  48. Lorenzo Buffon 1929 Italian footballer
  49. Kristy Swanson 1969 American actress
  50. Jens Fink-Jensen 1956 Danish writer
  51. Paolo Giordano 1982 Italian writer
  52. Mayu Ikejiri 1996 Japanese association football player
  53. Béatrice Dalle 1964 French actress
  54. Lazaros Christodoulopoulos 1986 Greek former association football player
  55. Jorge Garbajosa 1977 Spanish basketball player
  56. Edwin M. Stanton 1814 American lawyer and politician
  57. Rob Portman 1955 American lawyer and politician
  58. Maurice White 1941 American musician
  59. Aziza Mustafa Zadeh 1969 Azerbaijani singer, pianist, and composer
  60. William Edward Parry 1790 English naval officer and Arctic explorer
  61. Alvin Lee 1944 English singer, songwriter, and guitarist
  62. Elisa 1977 Italian singer-songwriter
  63. Lepa Radić 1925 Serbian communist partisan
  64. Lena Oberdorf 2001 Association football player
  65. Leonardo Bittencourt 1993 German footballer
  66. Mouctar Diakhaby 1996 Guinean and French association football player
  67. Thomas Andrews 1813 Irish chemist and physicist
  68. Miguel Lopes 1986 Portuguese footballer
  69. Mitchell Feigenbaum 1944 American mathematical physicist
  70. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann 1916 German political scientist
  71. Ankita Lokhande 1985 Indian actress
  72. Ali Adnan Kadhim 1993 Iraqi footballer
  73. Robert Urich 1946 Actor
  74. Zuzana Hejnová 1986 Czech athlete
  75. Niklas Landin Jacobsen 1988 Danish handball player
  76. Mohammad Reza Aref 1951 First Vice President of Iran and reformist politician
  77. Théodore Steeg 1868 French politician, Prime Minister of France
  78. Jorge Blanco 1991 Mexican musician
  79. Michael E. Fossum 1957 American astronaut
  80. Jeremy Soule 1975 American composer
  81. Ronan Farrow 1987 American journalist
  82. Tyson Beckford 1970 American model and actor
  83. Mo Williams 1982 American professional basketball player and coach
  84. Anastasiya Vertinskaya 1944 Soviet and Russian actress
  85. Migueli 1951 Spanish footballer
  86. Frans 1998 Swedish singer
  87. Lazar Mojsov 1920 Yugoslav Macedonian politician

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 19 share the 19th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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