People born on December 31

1980

Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player (b: December 31, 1980)
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1979

Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance) (b: December 31, 1979)
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1971

Brent Barry, American basketball player (b: December 31, 1971)
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1964

Allen D'Nulderf, American stuntman (b: December 31, 1964)
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1963

Scott Ian, American singer (Anthrax) (b: December 31, 1963)
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1960

John Allen Muhammad, American serial killer (b: December 31, 1960)
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1959

Val Kilmer, American actor (b: December 31, 1959)
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1958

Bebe Neuwirth, American actress (b: December 31, 1958)
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1953

James Remar, American actor (b: December 31, 1953)
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Jane Badler, American actress (b: December 31, 1953)
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1951

George Thorogood, American musician (b: December 31, 1951)
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1948

Donna Summer, American singer (b: December 31, 1948)
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1947

Burton Cummings, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b: December 31, 1947)
► Biography of Burton Cummings

Tim Matheson, American actor (b: December 31, 1947)
► Biography of Tim Matheson

1945

Taylor Hackford, American film producer and director (b: December 31, 1945)
► Biography of Taylor Hackford

Diane von Fürstenberg, fashion designer (b: December 31, 1945)
► Biography of Diane von Fürstenberg

1943

John Denver, American musician (b: December 31, 1943 ; d: October 12, 1997)
► Biography of John Denver

Ben Kingsley, English actor (b: December 31, 1943)
► Biography of Ben Kingsley

1941

Alex Ferguson, Scottish football player and manager (b: December 31, 1941)
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1938

Rosalind Cash, American actress (b: December 31, 1938 ; d: October 31, 1995)
► Biography of Rosalind Cash

1937

Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b: December 31, 1937)
► Biography of Avram Hershko

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor (b: December 31, 1937)
► Biography of Anthony Hopkins

1936

Aga Khan IV, Shia Imam (b: December 31, 1936)
► Biography of Aga Khan IV

1930

Odetta, American singer (b: December 31, 1930)
► Biography of Odetta

1920

Rex Allen, American actor and singer (b: December 31, 1920)
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1919

Tommy Byrne, baseball player (b: December 31, 1919)
► Biography of Tommy Byrne (baseball)

1910

Carl Dudley, American film director (died 1973) (b: December 31, 1910 ; d: September 2, 1973)
► Biography of Carl Dudley

1908

Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and activist (b: December 31, 1908 ; d: September 20, 2005)
► Biography of Simon Wiesenthal

1905

Jule Styne, English-born composer (b: December 31, 1905)
► Biography of Jule Styne

1903

Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (b: December 31, 1903 ; d: December 21, 1992)
► Biography of Nathan Milstein

1894

Pola Negri, Polish actress (b: December 31, 1894)
► Biography of Pola Negri

1881

Max Pechstein, German painter and graphic artist (b: December 31, 1881)
► Biography of Max Pechstein

1880

George Marshall, American recipient of Nobel Peace Prize (b: December 31, 1880)
► Biography of George Marshall

1869

Henri Matisse, French painter and graphic artist (b: December 31, 1869 ; d: November 3, 1954)
► Biography of Henri Matisse

1763

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (b: December 31, 1763 ; d: April 22, 1806)
► Biography of Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

1738

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b: December 31, 1738 ; d: October 5, 1805)
► Biography of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

1668

Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b: December 31, 1668 ; d: September 23, 1738)
► Biography of Herman Boerhaave

1572

Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (b. 1617) (b: December 31, 1572 ; d: September 25, 1617)
► Biography of Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan

1514

Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b: December 31, 1514 ; d: October 15, 1564)
► Biography of Vesalius

1491

Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b: December 31, 1491 ; d: September 1, 1557)
► Biography of Jacques Cartier

1378

Pope Callixtus III (b: December 31, 1378 ; d: August 6, 1458)
► Biography of Pope Callixtus III

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