Famous birthdays
Famous people born on December 6
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 6 include Yoshihide Suga (1948), Peter Handke (1942), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778) and Gunnar Myrdal (1898). Our list below has 87 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 6 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1685 (Marie Adélaïde of Savoy) and the most recent is 2000 (José Manuel López). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, politician.
Who was born on December 6?
- Yoshihide Suga 1948 Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021
- Peter Handke 1942 Austrian writer, playwright and film director
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 1778 French chemist and physicist
- Gunnar Myrdal 1898 Swedish economist
- Friedrich Max Müller 1823 German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist
- Geoffrey Hinton 1947 British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
- Alberto Contador 1982 Spanish professional cyclist
- Tim Cahill 1979 Australian association football player
- George Porter 1920 British chemist
- Giannis Antetokounmpo 1994 Nigerian-Greek basketball player
- Sadyr Japarov 1968 Kyrgyz politician and the president of Kyrgyzstan
- Dave Brubeck 1920 American jazz pianist and composer
- Frédéric Bazille 1841 French painter
- William II of the Netherlands 1792 King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1840 to 1849
- Andrew Cuomo 1957 American politician and lawyer
- Joe Hisaishi 1950 Japanese composer, conductor, pianist
- Keke Rosberg 1948 Finnish racing driver
- August von Mackensen 1849 German field marshal
- Satoru Iwata 1959 Japanese video game programmer and businessman
- Nicos Christodoulides 1973 Cypriot politician, 8th and current President of Cyprus
- Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos 1814 Catalan noble
- Federico Balzaretti 1981 Italian footballer
- Nobuo Matsunaga 1921 Japanese association football player
- Henryk Mikolaj Górecki 1933 Polish composer
- Ève Curie 1904 Writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie
- Agnes Moorehead 1900 American actress
- Warren Hastings 1732 Governor-General of Bengal, 1773–1785
- Eli Cohen 1924 Israeli spy
- Kristján Eldjárn 1916 Icelandic politician, 3rd President of Iceland
- Gregor Kobel 1997 Swiss footballer
- CoCo Vandeweghe 1991 American tennis player
- Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland 1984 Wife of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland
- Judd Apatow 1967 American comedian and filmmaker
- Randy Rhoads 1956 American guitarist
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt 1929 Austrian conductor
- Davide Calabria 1996 Italian association football player
- Dulce María 1985 Mexican actress
- Karl Ove Knausgård 1968 Norwegian author
- Tom Hulce 1953 American actor and producer
- Richard Krajicek 1971 Dutch tennis player
- Giovanni Ferrari 1907 Italian footballer
- Ira Gershwin 1896 American lyricist
- Nick Park 1958 British filmmaker
- Marie Adélaïde of Savoy 1685 Dauphine of France
- Stefanie Scott 1996 American actress and singer
- Ryan White 1971 American AIDS spokesperson and "poster boy"
- Hikari Nakade 1988 Japanese association football player
- Milica Mandić 1991 Serbian taekwondo practitioner
- George Uhlenbeck 1900 Dutch physicist
- Sarah Rafferty 1972 American actress
- Steven Wright 1955 American comedian
- Arthur Golden 1956 American novelist
- Lynn Fontanne 1887 British actress
- Shekhar Kapur 1945 Indian film director
- José Manuel López 2000 Argentine association football player
- Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898 German American photographer
- Nils Petersen 1988 German association football player
- Andrea Agnelli 1975 Italian businessman
- Peter Buck 1956 American musician; guitarist for R.E.M., songwriter, record producer
- Nikolay Ogarev 1813 Russian poet, historian and political activist
- Alain Tanner 1929 Swiss film director
- JoBeth Williams 1948 American actress and television director
- Tamira Paszek 1990 Austrian tennis player
- Torri Higginson 1969 Canadian actress
- Ulrich Thomsen 1963 Danish actor
- Alberto Spencer 1937 Ecuadorian footballer
- Tony Woodcock 1955 English footballer
- Nicolas Leblanc 1742 French chemist
- Arnon Milchan 1944 Israeli film producer and spy
- Kamal Jumblatt 1917 Lebanese politician
- Yasemin Adar Yiğit 1991 Turkish wrestler
- William S. Hart 1864 American actor, film director
- Lindsay Price 1976 American actress and singer
- Charles Martin Hall 1863 American chemist
- Rod Fanni 1981 French footballer
- Maria Beatrice of Savoy, Duchess of Modena 1792 Jacobite pretender to the British throne
- Yoshio Nishina 1890 Japanese physicist
- Isacio Calleja 1936 Spanish footballer
- Otto Nordenskjöld 1869 Swedish geologist and polar researcher
- King Moody 1929 American actor
- Fellype Gabriel 1985 Brazilian association football player
- Colin Salmon 1962 British actor (b. 1962)
- Sandra Nurmsalu 1988 Estonian musician
- Guy Drut 1950 French athletics competitor and politician
- Heinrich von Vietinghoff 1887 German general
- Daryl Impey 1984 South African racing cyclist
- Hashim al-Atassi 1875 Syrian statesman, thrice president
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 6 share the 6th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.