Famous people born on 31 December

• CiceroRoman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher · 107–43 BC
  63 yrs
• Henri MatisseFrench artist · 1869–1954
  84 yrs
• Umm KulthumEgyptian singer and actress · 1898–1975
  76 yrs
• George MarshallAmerican army officer and statesman · 1880–1959
  78 yrs
• John, King of EnglandKing of England from 1199 to 1216 · 1166–1216
  49 yrs
• Val KilmerAmerican actor · 1959–2025
  65 yrs
• Donna SummerAmerican singer · 1948–2012
  63 yrs
• Simon Wiesenthal ↗Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter · 1908–2005
  96 yrs
• Lawrence of Rome ↗Christian saint, martyr and a deacon of Rome · AD 225–258
  32 yrs
• Alex Salmond ↗Alba Party leader and First Minister of Scotland 2007–2014 · 1954–2024
  69 yrs
• John Denver ↗American singer · 1943–1997
  53 yrs
• Émile Loubet ↗8th president of France · 1838–1929
  90 yrs
• Isma'il Pasha ↗Khedive of Egypt from 1863 to 1879 · 1830–1895
  64 yrs
• Charles Edward Stuart ↗Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France; · 1720–1788
  67 yrs
• Viktor Dyk ↗Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer · 1877–1931
  53 yrs
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis ↗British general, colonial official, diplomat · 1738–1805
  66 yrs
• Giovanni Pascoli ↗Italian poet and classical scholar · 1855–1912
  56 yrs
• Gottfried August Bürger ↗German poet · 1747–1794
  46 yrs
• Herman Boerhaave ↗Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician · 1668–1738
  69 yrs
• Marie d'Agoult ↗Franco-German romantic author and historian · 1805–1876
  70 yrs
• George Meade ↗United States Army general and civil engineer · 1815–1872
  56 yrs
• Giovanni Boldini ↗Italian painter · 1842–1931
  88 yrs
• Horacio Quiroga ↗Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer · 1878–1937
  58 yrs
• Rita Lee ↗Brazilian singer, songwriter, author, actress and television host · 1947–2023
  75 yrs
• Maurice Yaméogo ↗Burkina Faso President · 1921–1993
  71 yrs
• Cem Sultan ↗Ottoman prince and pretender at the throne · 1459–1495
  35 yrs
• Ihor Kostenko ↗Ukrainian journalist and activist · 1991–2014
  22 yrs
• Marien Ngouabi ↗President of Congo-Brazzaville from 1969 to 1977 · 1938–1977
  38 yrs
• Odetta ↗American singer · 1930–2008
  77 yrs
• Carl Ludwig Siegel ↗German mathematician · 1896–1981
  84 yrs
• Max Pechstein ↗German artist · 1881–1955
  73 yrs

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