Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors30% (15 people)
Creators28% (14 people)
Authors26% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (10 people)
Politicians20% (10 people)
Scientists16% (8 people)
Musicians14% (7 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland4 (4 people)
India3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on December 21 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and film producer. He is one of the most widely recognized actors of his generation. The films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed more than $27 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time.
Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hu Jintao is a retired Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, president of China from 2003 to 2013, chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012 and chairman of the State Central Military Commission from 2005 to 2013.
Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American media proprietor and film producer. He served as chair of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films.
World Travel & Tourism Council, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto is a Kenyan politician who is the fifth and current president of Kenya since 13 September 2022. Prior to becoming president, he served as the first elected deputy president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.
Donald Thomas Regan was an American government official and business executive who served as the 66th United States secretary of the treasury from 1981 to 1985 and as the 11th White House chief of staff from 1985 to 1987 under President Ronald Reagan.
White House Photo Collection Galleries / Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alicia Alonso was a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer whose company became the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1955. She is best known for her portrayals of Giselle and the ballet version of Carmen.
Annemarie Heinrich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Airbus Commercial Aircraft · manufacturing
1958 · Germany
Thomas Enders is a German business executive who served as the chief executive of Airbus from 2012 until 2019. Since 2019, Thomas has been the president of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
Alex Nain Saab Morán is a Colombian-born Venezuelan businessman who served as Venezuela’s Minister of Industry and National Production from October 2024 to January 2026.
United States Department of the Treasury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Roane Dick is an American actor and comedian. Dick was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and joined The Second City and studied improvisational theater.
Sang-yeop Yeun, known professionally as Steven Yeun, is an American actor. He rose to prominence for playing Glenn Rhee in the television series The Walking Dead (2010–2016). He earned critical acclaim for the films Burning (2018) and Minari (2020).
Kaitlyn Rochelle Dever is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the television series Justified (2011–2015), Last Man Standing (2011–2021), Unbelievable (2019), Dopesick (2021), Apple Cider Vinegar (2025), and The Last of Us (2025–present).
Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Raymond Albert Romano is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known for his role as Raymond "Ray" Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005), for which he won three Primetime Emmy Awards.
1804–1881 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Cornelius Jabez Hughes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Govind Arun Ahuja is an Indian actor-turned-politician, who has appeared in more than 120 Hindi-language films. A leading actor throughout the late 1980s & 1990s, Govinda is known for his slapstick performances and dancing skills.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete who set world records in the 100m and 200m in 1988. During the late 1980s, she became a popular figure due to both her record-setting athleticism and eclectic personal style.
All the photographs are in the public domain and may be credited "Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin James Chilwell is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back, left wing-back or centre-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace.
Дмитрий Пукалик, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and the president of Austria from 1986 to 1992.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bart Albert Liliane De Wever, also known as BDW, is a Belgian politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Belgium since February 2025. From 2004 to 2025, De Wever had been the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a political party advocating Flemish independence.
Steven Terner Mnuchin is an American investment banker and film producer who served as the 77th United States secretary of the treasury as part of the first cabinet of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021.
Office of the President-elect, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez, known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz.
John Guilbert Avildsen was an American film director. He is best known for directing Rocky (1976), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director. He is also known for directing the first three films in The Karate Kid franchise (1984–1989).
Columbia Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
Leopold von Ranke was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and the analysis of historical documents.
After Julius Schrader / Adolf Jebens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1773–1858 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation".
Alfred De Bat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Cristian Zaccardo is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender. He mainly played as a centre back, although he was also capable of playing as a full-back or in midfield.
Aziz Nesin was a Turkish writer, humorist and the author of more than 100 books. Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of 1934 was passed.
Alice Iyabo Ojo is a prominent Nigerian film actress, director, and producer popularly known for her contributions in the Nollywood film industry. She has featured in over 150 films and has produced more than 14 of her own.
ENIOLA BADMUS TV, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1804–1887 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jan Leopold Łukasiewicz was a Polish logician, and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic. His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic.
unknown-anonymous, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 50 people born on December 21, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on December 21. Read the full methodology.
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