December 7 is the birthday of 46 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, actors, authors and scientists, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Michael H. Steinhardt is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. In 1967, he founded a hedge fund, Steinhardt Partners, which he ran until he closed it in 1995. After a hiatus from work, he returned to head WisdomTree Investments in 2004.
Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors28% (13 people)
Authors24% (11 people)
Musicians17% (8 people)
Scientists17% (8 people)
Creators15% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs15% (7 people)
Artists9% (4 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France5 (5 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Prussia2 (2 people)
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Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.
Augusto Starita / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nicholas Caradoc Hoult is an English actor. His filmography includes work in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in American and British films.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Larry Joe Bird is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Hick from French Lick" and "Larry Legend", Bird is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underbelly and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice.
Published by Asylum Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aaron Charles Carter was an American singer and rapper. He rose to fame as a teen pop singer in the late 1990s and established himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the early 2000s.
Jeffrey Charles Wright is an American actor. His accolades include a British Academy Games Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jennifer Carpenter is an American actress. Her early film roles include the cult comedy White Chicks (2004) and the supernatural horror The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), with the latter establishing her as a scream queen.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Petru Groza was a Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania, and later as the President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly from 1952 until his death in 1958.
Jonathan Mark Tisch is an American businessman and a son of billionaire Preston Robert Tisch, who was co-owner of luxury hospitality company Loews Hotels and of the New York Giants football team. Tisch inherited co-ownership of both.
Lazare Ponticelli, Knight of Vittorio Veneto, was at 110, the last surviving officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die.
Ellen Burstyn is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women in dramas, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City. Known for his character actor roles, his entertainment career spanned over six decades. He received a BAFTA Award, a Tony Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
John George Terry is an English professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He was previously captain of Chelsea, the England national team and Aston Villa.
ChristopherJClarke, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emily Jane Browning is an Australian actress. She made her film debut in the television film The Echo of Thunder (1998), and subsequently appeared in television shows such as High Flyers (1999), Something in the Air (2000–2001), and Blue Heelers (2000–2002).
Emily_Browning_HIFF.jpg: Nick Stepowyj derivative work: PancakeMistake (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She has sold over three million albums and over 15 million singles in the United States.
Christopher Grant Wood is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and captains the New Zealand national team.
Christina, a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. Her conversion to Catholicism and refusal to marry led her to relinquish her throne and move to Rome.
Sébastien Bourdon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner. Bernini's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as a uomo universale or Renaissance man.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Photographer: Aime Dupont Studio, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anna Komnene, commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian. She is the author of the Alexiad, an account of the reign of her father, Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fay Okell Bainter was an American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Arnold Genthe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Theodor Schwann was a German physician and physiologist. His most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals.
Rudolph Hoffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabriel Honoré Marcel was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society.
Fotograaf Onbekend / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pietro Mascagni was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music.
Gavo Studio; copyright expire, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Leopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory. Heinrich Weber quoted Kronecker as having said, "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk".
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Yosano Shō, known by her pen name Yosano Akiko, was a Japanese author, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan.
published by 東洋文化協會 (The Eastern Culture Association), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kaarlo Pentti Linkola was a prominent Finnish deep ecologist, ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman. He wrote widely about his ideas and in Finland was a prominent thinker, and is linked by some authors to ecofascism and to authoritarian deep ecology.
Sir Joseph Cook was the sixth prime minister of Australia, serving from 1913 to 1914. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party, having previously been leader of the Anti-Socialist Party from 1908 to 1909.
Norman Victor Herfort, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Clemens Fritz is a German former professional footballer who played as a right-back and as a defensive midfielder. He is mostly known for his 11-year spell at Werder Bremen.
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Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath.
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Lucía María Echevarría de Asteinza, known as Lucía Etxebarria, is a Spanish writer, winner of Premio Nadal in 1998 and Premio Planeta de Novela in 2004.
Johann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923.
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This page lists 46 people born on December 7, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of October 2018. 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 7. Read the full methodology.
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