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Famous people born on December 7
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 7 include Noam Chomsky (1928), Larry Bird (1956), John Terry (1980) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598). Our list below has 87 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 7 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1598 (Gian Lorenzo Bernini) and the most recent is 2003 (Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange). The most common fields on this date: actor, football, writer.
Who was born on December 7?
- Noam Chomsky 1928 American linguist and activist
- Larry Bird 1956 American basketball player and coach
- John Terry 1980 English association football player
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 Italian sculptor and architect
- Nicholas Hoult 1989 English actor
- Ellen Burstyn 1932 American actress
- Pietro Mascagni 1863 Italian composer known for operas
- Tom Waits 1949 American singer-songwriter and actor
- Leopold Kronecker 1823 German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra
- Willa Cather 1873 American writer
- Eli Wallach 1915 American actor
- Gerard Kuiper 1905 Netherlands-born American astronomer
- Mário Soares 1924 President of Portugal
- Gabriel Marcel 1889 French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist
- Theodor Schwann 1810 German physiologist
- Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca 1958 Maltese politician
- Iveta Radičová 1956 Slovak politician and sociologist, former prime minister
- Johan Huizinga 1872 Dutch cultural historian
- Robert Abela 1977 Maltese politician
- Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange 2003 Heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Akiko Yosano 1878 Japanese tanka poet
- Jakov Milatović 1986 President of Montenegro since 2023
- Fay Bainter 1893 American actress
- Yuzuru Hanyū 1994 Japanese figure skater
- Sara Bareilles 1979 American recording artist; pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
- Lucía Etxebarria 1966 Spanish writer
- Jeffrey Wright 1965 American actor
- Emily Browning 1988 Australian actress, singer and model
- Hermann Maier 1972 Austrian alpine skier
- Jennifer Carpenter 1979 American actress
- Susan Collins 1952 United States Senator from Maine since 1997
- Chris Wood 1991 New Zealand association football player
- Jon Moxley 1985 American professional wrestler and actor
- Abdellatif Kechiche 1960 Tunisian-French film director
- Aaron Carter 1987 American pop singer, actor and songwriter
- Clemens Fritz 1980 German footballer
- Mark Bowen 1963 Welsh association football player
- Joseph Cook 1860 6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914
- Dominic Howard 1977 British musician
- Junko Ozawa 1973 Japanese association football player
- Kae Nishina 1972 Japanese association football player
- Petru Groza 1884 46th Prime Minister of Romania
- Louis Prima 1910 American musician
- Gabby Thomas 1996 American track-and-field athlete
- David Goffin 1990 Belgian tennis player
- Moeka Minami 1998 Japanese association football player
- Marte Olsbu Røiseland 1990 Norwegian biathlete
- Jack Huston 1982 British actor
- Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno 1764 French soldier and military commander
- Mame Madior Boye 1940 Senegalese politician
- Bajrakitiyabha, Princess Rajasarinisiribajra 1978 Thai princess and daughter of Rama X
- Caleb Landry Jones 1989 American actor
- Leigh Brackett 1915 American novelist and screenwriter
- Urszula Radwańska 1990 Polish tennis player
- Shiri Appleby 1978 American actress and director
- Dan Bilzerian 1980 American social media influencer
- Armando Manzanero 1935 Mexican musician, composer pianist
- C. Thomas Howell 1966 American actor and film director
- Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin 1805 French magician
- Damien Rice 1973 Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer
- Kristofer Hivju 1978 Norwegian actor
- Siriporn Ampaipong 1964 Thai female singer
- Viktor Chernov 1873 Russian politician
- Nathan Adrian 1988 American swimmer
- Jovanka Broz 1924 First Lady of Yugoslavia
- Yaël Braun-Pivet 1970 French politician
- Luigi Cremona 1830 Italian mathematician
- Yekaterina Furtseva 1910 Soviet politician
- Sergey Belyavsky 1883 Soviet/Russian astronomer
- Ledian Memushaj 1986 Albanian association football player
- Torri Huske 2002 American swimmer
- Clarence Nash 1904 American voice actor
- Pentti Linkola 1932 Finnish ecologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman
- Klara Bühl 2000 German association football player
- Feodora of Leiningen 1807 German princess; maternal half-sister of Queen Victoria
- Giovanni Ceva 1647 Italian mathematician
- Hermann Balck 1893 Panzer general of the German Wehrmacht, "The Forgotten Panzer General"
- Santi Mina 1995 Spanish association football player
- Walter Nowotny 1920 Austrian born German officer and fighter pilot during World War II
- Ahmed Faras 1946 Moroccan footballer
- Fyodor Apraksin 1661 Russian Governor, Military commander and first Admiral
- Naledi Pandor 1953 South African politician
- Thad Cochran 1937 United States Senator from Mississippi
- Mark Rolston 1956 American actor
- Wilton Daniel Gregory 1947 American Cardinal
- Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron 1731 French orientalist
- Charlie McGettigan 1950 Irish singer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 7 share the 7th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.