Famous birthdays
Famous people born on December 31
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 31 include Henri Matisse (1869), Anthony Hopkins (1937), Alex Ferguson (1941) and George Marshall (1880). Our list below has 85 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 31 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1596 (Peter Mogila) and the most recent is 2009 (Max Dowman). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on December 31?
- Henri Matisse 1869 French artist
- Anthony Hopkins 1937 Welsh–American actor and director
- Alex Ferguson 1941 Scottish association football manager and former player
- George Marshall 1880 American army officer and statesman
- Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 1935 King of Saudi Arabia since 2015
- Psy 1977 South Korean singer
- Ben Kingsley 1943 English actor
- Val Kilmer 1959 American actor
- Donna Summer 1948 American singer
- Gong Li 1965 Chinese-Singaporean actress
- Alex Salmond 1954 Alba Party leader and First Minister of Scotland 2007–2014
- John Denver 1943 American singer
- Nicholas Sparks 1965 American writer and novelist
- Avram Hershko 1937 Israeli biochemist
- Donald Trump Jr. 1977 American businessman and reality television personality
- Émile Loubet 1838 8th president of France
- Isma'il Pasha 1830 Khedive of Egypt from 1863 to 1879
- Charles Edward Stuart 1720 Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis 1738 British general, colonial official, diplomat
- Herman Boerhaave 1668 Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician
- Gottfried August Bürger 1747 German poet
- Giovanni Pascoli 1855 Italian poet and classical scholar
- Hunter Schafer 1998 American actress, model, and LGBTQ activist
- Maddie Taylor 1966 American voice actress
- Baron Waqa 1959 Nauruan politician
- Nélson Luís Kerchner 1962 Brazilian association football player
- Marie d'Agoult 1805 Franco-German romantic author and historian
- Mohamed Ould Ghazouani 1956 Mauritanian retired general and politician; President of Mauritania (2019–present)
- Steve Bruce 1960 English professional football manager and former player
- Craig Gordon 1982 Scottish association football player
- George Meade 1815 United States Army general and civil engineer
- Logan Sargeant 2000 American racing driver
- Junot Díaz 1968 Author
- Diane von Fürstenberg 1946 Belgian-born American fashion designer
- Rita Lee 1947 Brazilian singer, songwriter, author, actress and television host
- Gerhard Ludwig Müller 1947 Catholic cardinal from Germany
- Aliaksandra Herasimenia 1985 Female swimmer from Belarus
- Grégory Coupet 1972 French footballer
- Giovanni Boldini 1842 Italian painter
- Tomomi Miyamoto 1978 Japanese association football player
- Horacio Quiroga 1878 Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer
- Edvin Kanka Ćudić 1988 Bosnian human rights activist
- Maurice Yaméogo 1921 Burkina Faso President
- James Remar 1953 American actor
- Bebe Neuwirth 1958 American actress
- Chika Hirao 1996 Japanese association football player
- Odetta 1930 American singer
- Marien Ngouabi 1938 President of Congo-Brazzaville from 1969 to 1977
- Ihor Kostenko 1991 Ukrainian journalist and activist
- Robert Grant Aitken 1864 American astronomer
- Jeff Flake 1962 American diplomat and former United States senator from Arizona
- Josh Hawley 1979 American lawyer and politician
- Max Pechstein 1881 German artist
- Carl Ludwig Siegel 1896 German mathematician
- Leonard Adleman 1945 American computer scientist
- Joe Abercrombie 1974 British fantasy writer and film editor
- Winfred Yavi 1999 Bahraini steeplechase runner
- Patrick Chan 1990 Canadian figure skater, Olympic gold medallist
- Pierre-Charles Villeneuve 1763 French naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars
- Vaughan Jones 1952 New Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Duma Boko 1969 President of Botswana
- Gabby Douglas 1995 American gymnast
- Max Dowman 2009 English footballer
- Karl-August Fagerholm 1901 Finland Swedish politician
- Veijo Meri 1928 Finnish writer
- Vincas Kudirka 1858 Lithuanian writer, poet and physician
- Alexander Bolshunov 1996 Russian cross-country skier
- Viktor Afanasyev 1948 Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and military pilot
- Connie Willis 1945 American science fiction writer
- Hermann Tilke 1954 German engineer, racing driver and F1 circuit designer
- Barbara Carrera 1945 Nicaraguan-American model and actress
- Joe Scally 2002 American soccer player
- Andy Summers 1942 British guitarist
- Peter Mogila 1596 Metroploitan of Kyiv, Halych and All-Rus
- Tim Matheson 1947 American actor
- Taylor Hackford 1944 American film director, and president of the Directors Guild of America
- István Dobi 1898 Hungarian politician
- Johann Hermann 1738 French physician, zoologist and botanist
- Nemanja Nikolić 1987 Hungarian football player (b. 1987)
- Tom Hamilton 1951 American bass player
- Cameron Carter-Vickers 1997 American-British soccer player
- Princess Viktoria Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein 1885 German princess
- Zakaria El Ouahdi 2001 Moroccan soccer player
- Bojana Jovanovski Petrović 1991 Serbian tennis player
- Siw Malmkvist 1936 Swedish schlager singer and actress
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 31 share the 31st of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.