Famous birthdays
Famous people born on December 8
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 8 include Jim Morrison (1943), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832), Jean Sibelius (1865) and Kim Basinger (1953). Our list below has 102 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1708 (Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor) and the most recent is 2005 (Javokhir Sindarov). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on December 8?
- Jim Morrison 1943 American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 Norwegian writer
- Jean Sibelius 1865 Finnish composer
- Kim Basinger 1953 American actress
- Sinéad O'Connor 1966 Irish singer-songwriter
- Baron d'Holbach 1723 German-born French philosopher
- Georges Méliès 1861 French filmmaker and illusionist
- Maximilian Schell 1930 Swiss and Austrian film and stage actor
- Raheem Sterling 1994 English association football player
- Ian Somerhalder 1978 American actor
- Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany.
- Teri Hatcher 1964 American actress
- John Kufuor 1938 Fifth President of the Republic of Ghana and Lawyer
- Dharmendra 1935 Indian actor and politician
- David Carradine 1936 American actor
- Dominic Monaghan 1976 German-born British actor
- AnnaSophia Robb 1993 American actress
- Reece James 1999 English association football player
- Thomas Cech 1947 American chemist, biochemistry professor
- Andrius Kubilius 1956 Lithuanian politician
- Hamit Altıntop 1982 Turkish association football player
- Ann Coulter 1961 American author, political commentator
- Jacques Hadamard 1865 French mathematician
- Camille Claudel 1864 French sculptor
- Scott McTominay 1996 Scottish association football player
- Lucian Freud 1922 British painter and agravar
- Sammy Davis Jr. 1925 American entertainer
- Geoff Hurst 1941 English footballer
- Sharmila Tagore 1944 Indian actress
- John Banville 1945 Irish writer
- Corey Taylor 1973 American musician
- Niklas Luhmann 1927 German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist
- Eli Whitney 1765 American inventor
- Georges Feydeau 1862 French writer
- Aristide Maillol 1861 Sculptor from France
- Jim Yong Kim 1959 South Korean-American physician and anthropologist, 12th President of the World Bank
- Bill Bryson 1951 American-British author
- Bohuslav Martinů 1890 Czech composer
- Mikhail Kasianov 1957 Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russia
- Arnaldo Forlani 1925 Italian politician
- Tanner Buchanan 1998 American actor
- Adolph von Menzel 1815 German artist
- Lee J. Cobb 1911 American actor
- Norman Finkelstein 1953 American political scientist
- Azra Akın 1981 Turkish actor and fashion model
- Les Ferdinand 1966 English association football player
- Johannes Aavik 1880 Estonian philologist and Fennophile
- Thongchai McIntyre 1958 Thai singer and actor
- Gregg Allman 1947 American musician
- Vladimir Shatalov 1927 Soviet cosmonaut
- Javokhir Sindarov 2005 Uzbek chess grandmaster and 2026 Candidates Tournament winner
- Marty Friedman 1962 American guitarist
- Julia Hall Bowman Robinson 1919 American mathematician
- Jan Ingenhousz 1730 Dutch physiologist
- Alisa Freindlich 1934 Soviet and Russian actress
- Christian Wilhelmsson 1979 Swedish footballer
- Halil Altıntop 1982 Turkish association football player
- Jimmy Lai 1947 Hong Kong businessman and activist
- Gita Gopinath 1971 Indian-American economist
- Yura Borisov 1992 Russian actor
- Nancy Meyers 1949 American film director, producer and screenwriter
- Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria 1756 Austrian archduke, archbishop of Cologne
- Jordon Ibe 1995 English association football player
- Albert Gleizes 1881 French painter
- Richard Fleischer 1916 American film director
- Matthias Schoenaerts 1977 Belgian actor
- John Langenus 1891 Belgian football referee
- Alphonse Borrelly 1842 French astronomer
- Moritz Leitner 1992 German association football player
- Dariush Mehrjui 1939 Iranian filmmaker
- Władysław Kozakiewicz 1953 Polish pole vaulter
- Emma Green 1984 Swedish high jumper
- Amir Khan 1986 British boxer
- Émile Reynaud 1844 French inventor
- Maximilian Eggestein 1996 German association football player
- Vitaly Mutko 1958 Russian politician
- Wendell Pierce 1963 American actor and businessman
- Luis Caffarelli 1948 Argentine mathematician
- Edith Durham 1863 British artist
- Wifredo Lam 1902 Cuban artist
- Junkie XL 1967 Dutch composer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, producer, and engineer
- Badr Hari 1984 Dutch-Moroccan kickboxer
- Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier 1742 French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France
- Shingo Akamine 1983 Japanese association football player
- Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz 1854 Polish painter
- Charles III, Prince of Monaco 1818 Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 1856
- Ilie Poenaru 1985 Romanian footballer
- Jacob Georg Agardh 1813 Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist
- Margaret Geller 1947 American astronomer
- Robert Sternberg 1949 American psychologist & scholar
- Óscar Ramírez 1964 Costa Rican professional footballer and manager
- Terry McDermott 1951 English footballer and manager
- Peter Andreas Hansen 1795 German astronomer
- Manuel Urrutia Lleó 1901 President of Cuba
- Owen Teague 1998 American actor
- E. C. Segar 1894 American cartoonist
- Cyriel Dessers 1994 Belgian professional footballer
- Sébastien Chabal 1977 French rugby union player
- Gérard de Villiers 1929 French writer
- Kotono Mitsuishi 1967 Japanese voice actress
- Florbela Espanca 1894 Portuguese poet
- Charly Gaul 1932 Professional cyclist
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 8 share the 8th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.