Birthday twins
December 8 is the birthday of 59 notable people we've found so far, including actors, creators, entrepreneurs and authors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
What the data says
Entrepreneur
1972 · Brazil
$4.1Bolder estimate, as of October 2021 · Forbes
Joesley Mendonça Batista is a Brazilian businessman and son of José Batista Sobrinho.
Reported estimate as of October 2021: $4.1B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every December birthday · battle December 8 against another date · all rankings
Who shares December 8
Share of the 59 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
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.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Politician
1935–2025 · India
Dharmendra was an Indian actor, producer and politician, primarily known for his work in Hindi films. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema.
Top tier
Actor
1943–1971 · United States
James Douglas Morrison was an American singer-songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors.
Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Musician
1966–2023 · Ireland
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor, also known as Shuhada' Sadaqat, was an Irish singer and songwriter.
Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1936–2009 · United States
David Carradine was an American actor and director, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage.
Top tier
Athlete
1994 · United Kingdom
Raheem Shaquille Sterling is a professional footballer who plays as a winger. Born in Jamaica, he has played for the England national team.
Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1953 · United States
Kimila Ann Basinger is an American actress. She has garnered acclaim for her work in film, for which she has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1708–1765 · Duchy of Lorraine
Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1745 to 1765, Archduke of Austria from 1740 to 1765, Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1729 to 1737, and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1737 to 1765.
Martin van Meytens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Chevrolet · automotive
1861–1947 · United States
William Crapo Durant was an American businessman. A leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, he was the founder of General Motors and a co-founder of Chevrolet.
Unknown photographerUnknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1978 · United States
Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American retired actor. He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in ABC's science fiction adventure drama television series Lost (2004–2010) and Damon Salvatore in the CW supernatural teen drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017).
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1963 · United States
Wendell Edward Pierce is an American actor and businessman. Having trained at Juilliard School, Pierce rose to prominence as a character actor of stage and screen. He first gained recognition portraying Detective Bunk Moreland in the HBO drama series The Wire from 2002 to 2008.
Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1947 · United Kingdom
Lai Chee-ying, also known as Jimmy Lai, is a Hong Kong businessman, politician, and political prisoner. He founded the clothing retailer Giordano, the media company Next Digital, and the newspaper Apple Daily.
美国之音莉雅, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1765–1825 · United States
Eli Whitney Jr. was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
December 8 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1964 · United States
Teri Lynn Hatcher is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Lois Lane on the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997).
hyku, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1996 · United Kingdom
Scott Francis McTominay is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Napoli. Born in England, he plays for the Scotland national team.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1925–1990 · United States
Samuel George Davis Jr. was an American singer, actor, comedian and dancer. Known as "Mr.
Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1993 · United States
AnnaSophia Robb is an American actress, model, and singer. She began her career as a child actress making her feature film debut in Because of Winn-Dixie (2005).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/greg2600/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1985 · United States
Dwight David Howard II is an American professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Superman" for his athletic prowess, he is an NBA champion, eight-time All-Star, eight-time All-NBA Team honoree, five-time All-Defensive Team member, and three-time Defensive Player of the Year.
Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1976 · United Kingdom
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan is a British actor. He is best known for playing Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003), and Charlie Pace on the ABC television drama Lost (2004–2010).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1973 · United States
Corey Todd Taylor is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Slipknot, in which he is designated #8, as well as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Stone Sour.
Duude125, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1999 · United Kingdom
Reece Lewis James is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Chelsea, which he captains, and the England national team.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1961 · United States
Ann Hart Coulter is an American conservative political activist, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She became known as a media pundit in the late 1990s, appearing in print and on cable news as an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1953 · United States
Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Miguel de Icaza, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1941 · United Kingdom
Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst is an English former professional footballer. A striker, he became the first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, as England recorded a 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley in 1966.
Keven Law from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1944 · India
Sharmila Tagore, also known by her married name Begum Ayesha Sultana, is an Indian actress whose career has spanned over six decades across Hindi and Bengali films.
Artist
1922–2011 · United Kingdom
Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
procsilas, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1930–2014 · Switzerland
Maximilian Schell was a Swiss actor, theatre director, filmmaker, and musician of Austrian origin. He was one of the most internationally acclaimed German-speaking actors of his generation, earning accolades for his work on both screen and stage.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1865–1957 · Finland
Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods.
The original uploader was -Majestic- at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1861–1938 · France
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was a French filmmaker, actor, magician, and toymaker. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Georges Méliès, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1911–1976 · United States
Lee J. Cobb was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage, as well as for his starring role on the television series The Virginian.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1951 · United States
William McGuire Bryson is an American journalist and author who was naturalized as a British citizen in 2014. Bryson has written nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science.
The National Churches Trust from London, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1864–1943 · France
Camille Rosalie Claudel was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity. Later in the 20th century, she gained renewed attention and recognition for the originality and quality of her work.
Plombelec, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1945 · Ireland
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1904–1975 · United States
George Cooper Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956).
Quigley Publishing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1916–2006 · United States
Richard Owen Fleischer was an American film director. His career spanned more than four decades, beginning at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1940s, and lasting through the New Hollywood era, until the late 1980s.
Isurus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1950 · United States
Richard Alan Baker is an American actor and retired special make-up effects creator. He is mostly known for his creature designs and effects.
Mingle MediaTV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1982 · Turkey
Hamit Altıntop is a Turkish former professional footballer and current board member of the Turkish Football Federation.
Ultraslansi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1957 · Russia
Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 2000 to 2004. Previously, he had served as First Deputy Prime Minister in 2000 and Minister of Finance from 1999 to 2000.
Associated Press, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1938 · Ghana
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor is a Ghanaian politician who served as the tenth President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Eric Miller, mailto:emiller@iafrica.com emiller@iafrica.com), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1832–1910 · Norway
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit".
Erwin Raupp / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1723–1789 · France
Paul Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.
Alexander Roslin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1890–1959 · United States
Bohuslav Jan Martinů was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores, and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and instrumental works.
American film editor
1935 · United States
Michael Kahn is an American film editor, known for his frequent collaboration with Steven Spielberg. He has edited all but two of Spielberg's films since 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
This page lists 59 people born on December 8, 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 2021. 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 8. Read the full methodology.
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