Famous people born on 19 December

• Édith PiafFrench singer · 1915–1963
  47 yrs
• Leonid BrezhnevGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union · 1906–1982
  75 yrs
• Albert Abraham MichelsonAmerican physicist · 1852–1931
  78 yrs
• Gustavus Adolphus of SwedenSwedish king · 1594–1632
  37 yrs
• Philip V of SpainKing of Spain from 1700 to 1746 · 1683–1746
  62 yrs
• Mileva MarićSerbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein · 1875–1948
  72 yrs
• Jean Genet ↗French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist · 1910–1986
  75 yrs
• Italo Svevo ↗Italian writer · 1861–1928
  66 yrs
• Cicely Tyson ↗American actress · 1924–2021
  96 yrs
• Marie Thérèse of France ↗French Madame Royale · 1778–1851
  72 yrs
• Ralph Richardson ↗British actor · 1902–1983
  80 yrs
• Richard Leakey ↗Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician · 1944–2022
  77 yrs
• Antonín Zápotocký ↗Czech politician · 1884–1957
  72 yrs
• George Davis Snell ↗American geneticist · 1903–1996
  92 yrs
• Michel Tournier ↗French writer · 1924–2016
  91 yrs
• Eleanor H. Porter ↗American novelist · 1868–1920
  51 yrs
• Martin de Porres ↗Peruvian religious figure and saint · 1579–1639
  59 yrs
• Milan Milutinović ↗2nd President of Serbia · 1942–2023
  80 yrs
• King Oliver ↗American jazz cornet player and bandleader · 1881–1938
  56 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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