People born on December 24


1976

Jason Macy, New Zealand-born race car driver, writer, and photographer (b: December 24, 1976)
    Biography of Jason Macy

1974

Ryan Seacrest, American television host (b: December 24, 1974)
    Biography of Ryan Seacrest

Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer (b: December 24, 1974)
    Biography of Marcelo Salas

1973

Eddie Pope, American soccer player (b: December 24, 1973)
    Biography of Eddie Pope

1971

Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer (b: December 24, 1971)
    Biography of Ricky Martin

1969

Mark Millar, Scottish comic-book writer (b: December 24, 1969)
    Biography of Mark Millar

1966

Diedrich Bader, American actor (b: December 24, 1966)
    Biography of Diedrich Bader

1957

Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan (b: December 24, 1957)
    Biography of Hamid Karzai

1955

Clarence Gilyard, American actor (b: December 24, 1955)
    Biography of Clarence Gilyard

1950

Dana Gioia, American poet and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (b: December 24, 1950)
    Biography of Dana Gioia

1949

Randy Neugebauer, American politician (b: December 24, 1949)
    Biography of Randy Neugebauer

1945

Lemmy Kilmister, British musician (b: December 24, 1945)
    Biography of Lemmy Kilmister

Nicholas Meyer, American author (b: December 24, 1945)
    Biography of Nicholas Meyer

1943

Tarja Halonen, President of Finland (b: December 24, 1943)
    Biography of Tarja Halonen

1941

John Levene, British actor (b: December 24, 1941)
    Biography of John Levene

1931

Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (b: December 24, 1931)
    Biography of Mauricio Kagel

1929

Mary Higgins Clark, American author (b: December 24, 1929)
    Biography of Mary Higgins Clark

1924

Mohd. Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (b: December 24, 1924 ; d: July 31, 1980)
    Biography of Mohd. Rafi

1923

George Patton IV, American general (b: December 24, 1923 ; d: June 27, 2004)
    Biography of George Patton IV

1922

Ava Gardner, American actress (b: December 24, 1922 ; d: January 25, 1990)
    Biography of Ava Gardner

1920

Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b: December 24, 1920 ; d: April 9, 1944)
    Biography of Evgeniya Rudneva

1914

Herbert Reinecker, German writer (b: December 24, 1914)
    Biography of Herbert Reinecker

1910

Fritz Leiber, American writer (b: December 24, 1910 ; d: September 5, 1992)
    Biography of Fritz Leiber

1905

Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (b: December 24, 1905 ; d: April 5, 1976)
    Biography of Howard Hughes

1898

Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b: December 24, 1898 ; d: February 14, 1959)
    Biography of Baby Dodds

1895

E. Roland Harriman, American financier (b: December 24, 1895 ; d: February 16, 1978)
    Biography of E. Roland Harriman

1886

Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (b: December 24, 1886)
    Biography of Michael Curtiz

1881

Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b: December 24, 1881 ; d: May 29, 1958)
    Biography of Juan Ramón Jiménez

1868

Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b: December 24, 1868 ; d: January 11, 1941)
    Biography of Emanuel Lasker

1845

King George I of Greece (b: December 24, 1845 ; d: March 18, 1913)
    Biography of George I of Greece

1837

Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria (b: December 24, 1837 ; d: September 10, 1898)
    Biography of Elisabeth of Bavaria

1822

Matthew Arnold, English poet (b: December 24, 1822 ; d: April 15, 1888)
    Biography of Matthew Arnold

1818

James Prescott Joule, British physicist (b: December 24, 1818 ; d: October 11, 1889)
    Biography of James Prescott Joule

1812

Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (b: December 24, 1812)
    Biography of Karl Eduard Zachariae

1809

Kit Carson, American frontiersman (b: December 24, 1809 ; d: May 23, 1868)
    Biography of Kit Carson

1754

George Crabbe, English poet and naturalist (b: December 24, 1754)
    Biography of George Crabbe

1698

William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (b: December 24, 1698 ; d: June 7, 1779)
    Biography of William Warburton

1609

Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b: December 24, 1609 ; d: January 15, 1683)
    Biography of Philip Warwick

1508

Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b: December 24, 1508 ; d: October 1, 1567)
    Biography of Pietro Carnesecchi

1491

Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (b: December 24, 1491 ; d: July 31, 1556)
    Biography of Ignatius Loyola

1475

Thomas Murner, German writer (b: December 24, 1475)
    Biography of Thomas Murner

1389

John VI, Duke of Brittany (b: December 24, 1389 ; d: August 29, 1442)
    Biography of John VI, Duke of Brittany

1166

King John of England (b: December 24, 1166)
    Biography of John of England

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