DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS

DECEMBER 31

• 1869 – Henri Matisse
• 1905 – Jule Styne
• 1930 – Odetta
• 1934 - Charles Weedon Westover (Del Shannon)
• 1937 – Anthony Hopkins
• 1942 – Andy Summers
• 1942 - Robert Quine
• 1943 – John Denver
• 1943 – Ben Kingsley
• 1943 – Pete Quaife
• 1944 – Taylor Hackford
• 1947 – Burton Cummings
• 1948 – Donna Summer
• 1951 – Tom Hamilton
• 1953 – Michael Hedges
• 1958 – Bebe Neuwirth
• 1959 – Paul Westerberg

DECEMBER 30

• 1865 – Rudyard Kipling
• 1914 – Bert Parks
• 1928 – Bo Diddley
• 1931 – Skeeter Davis
• 1934 – Del Shannon
• 1934 – Russ Tamblyn
• 1935 – Sandy Koufax
• 1937 – John Hartford
• 1939 – Felix Pappalardi
• 1942 – Michael Nesmith
• 1945 – Davy Jones
• 1946 – Patti Smith
• 1946 – Clive Bunker
• 1947 – Jeff Lynne
• 1956 – Suzy Bogguss
• 1959 – Tracey Ullman

DECEMBER 29

• 1876 – Pau Casals
• 1914 – Billy Tipton
• 1936 – Mary Tyler Moore
• 1941 – Ray Thomas
• 1942 – Rick Danko
• 1946 – Marianne Faithfull
• 1947 – Cozy Powell
• 1951 – Yvonne Elliman
• 1961 – Jim Reid

DECEMBER 28

• 1913 – Lou Jacobi
• 1915 – Pops Staples
• 1921 – Johnny Otis
• 1922 – Stan Lee
• 1932 – Dorsey Burnette
• 1934 – Maggie Smith
• 1946 – Edgar Winter
• 1948 – Mary Weiss (The Shangri-Las)
• 1950 – Alex Chilton
• 1973 – Seth Meyers

DECEMBER 27

• 1822 – Louis Pasteur
• 1879 – Sydney Greenstreet
• 1901 – Marlene Dietrich
• 1906 – Oscar Levant
• 1931 – Scotty Moore
• 1943 – Peter Sinfield
• 1952 – Karla Bonoff
• 1952 – David Knopfler
• 1969 – Sarah Vowell

DECEMBER 26

• 1891 – Henry Miller
• 1921 – Steve Allen
• 1927 – Alan King
• 1933 – Caroll Spinney
• 1935 – Abdul "Duke" Fakir
• 1939 – Phil Spector
• 1951 – John Scofield
• 1953 – Henning Schmitz
• 1966 – Jay Farrar
• 1971 – Jared Leto

DECEMBER 25 

• 1642 – Isaac Newton
• 1907 – Cab Calloway
• 1924 – Rod Serling
• 1940 – Pete Brown
• 1944 – Kenny Everett
• 1945 – Noel Redding
• 1946 – Jimmy Buffett
• 1949 – Sissy Spacek
• 1949 – Joe Louis Walker
• 1954 – Annie Lennox
• 1957 – Shane MacGowan
• 1971 – Dido

DECEMBER 24

• 1922 – Ava Gardner
• 1924 – Lee Dorsey
• 1945 – Lemmy
• 1946 – Jan Akkerman
• 1951 – Nick Kent
• 1968 – Doyle Bramhall II
• 1971 – Ricky Martin

DECEMBER 23

• 1929 – Chet Baker
• 1935 – Esther Phillips
• 1940 – Jorma Kaukonen
• 1940 – Eugene Record
• 1941 – Tim Hardin
• 1964 – Eddie Vedder

DECEMBER 22

• 1915 – Barbara Billingsley
• 1917 – Gene Rayburn
• 1919 – Lil Green
• 1921 – Hawkshaw Hawkins
• 1942 – Jerry Koosman
• 1944 – Barry Jenkins (The Animals)
• 1949 – Maurice and Robin Gibb
• 1960 – Jean-Michel Basquiat

DECEMBER 21

• 1922 – Paul Winchell
• 1930 - Billy Faier
• 1937 – Jane Fonda
• 1940 – Frank Zappa
• 1942 – Carla Thomas
• 1943 – Albert Lee
• 1946 – Carl Wilson
• 1953 – Betty Wright

DECEMBER 20

• 1948 – Alan Parsons
• 1948 – Stevie Wright (The Easybeats)
• 1957 – Billy Bragg

DECEMBER 19

• 1918 – Professor Longhair
• 1940 – Phil Ochs
• 1944 – Alvin Lee
• 1944 – Zal Yanovsky
• 1945 – John McEuen
• 1957 – Kevin McHale
• 1958 – Limahl

DECEMBER 18

• 1879 – Paul Klee
• 1886 – Ty Cobb
• 1916 – Betty Grable
• 1917 – Ossie Davis
• 1938 – Chas Chandler
• 1943 – Keith Richards
• 1946 – Steve Biko
• 1946 – Steven Spielberg
• 1948 – Bill Nelson

DECEMBER 17 

• 1894 – Arthur Fiedler
• 1903 – Ray Noble
• 1936 – Tommy Steele
• 1939 – Eddie Kendricks
• 1942 – Paul Butterfield
• 1943 – Ron Geesin
• 1946 – Eugene Levy
• 1949 – Paul Rodgers
• 1958 – Mike Mills

DECEMBER 16

• 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven
• 1775 – Jane Austen
• 1899 – Noël Coward
• 1917 – Arthur C. Clarke
• 1928 – Philip K. Dick
• 1945 – Tony Hicks
• 1946 – Benny Andersson
• 1949 – Billy Gibbons
• 1951 – Robben Ford
• 1961 – Bill Hicks

DECEMBER 15 

• 1911 – Stan Kenton
• 1919 – Max Yasgur
• 1921 – Alan Freed
• 1933 – Tim Conway
• 1939 – Cindy Birdsong
• 1942 – Dave Clark
• 1946 – Carmine Appice
• 1955 – Paul Simonon

DECEMBER 14 

• 1908 – Morey Amsterdam
• 1911 – Spike Jones
• 1922 – Don Hewitt
• 1938 – Hal Williams
• 1946 – Jane Birkin
• 1946 – Patty Duke
• 1946 – Michael Ovitz
• 1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
• 1949 – Bill Buckner
• 1958 – Mike Scott
• 1958 – Spider Stacy

DECEMBER 13

• 1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln
• 1903 – Carlos Montoya
• 1925 – Dick Van Dyke
• 1929 – Christopher Plummer
• 1934 – Richard D. Zanuck
• 1948 – Lester Bangs
• 1948 – Jeff Baxter
• 1948 – Ted Nugent
• 1949 – Tom Verlaine
• 1954 – Steve Forbert
• 1957 – Steve Buscemi
• 1957 – Morris Day

DECEMBER 12

• 1893 – Edward G. Robinson
• 1915 – Frank Sinatra
• 1918 – Joe Williams
• 1923 – Bob Barker
• 1924 – Ed Koch
• 1929 – John Osborne
• 1930 – Bill Beutel
• 1931 – Lionel Blair
• 1937 – Buford Pusser
• 1940 – Dionne Warwick
• 1943 – Dickey Betts
• 1943 – Grover Washington, Jr.
• 1944 – Rob Tyner
• 1945 – Tony Williams
• 1952 – Cathy Rigby
• 1953 – Bruce Kulick
• 1957 – Sheila E.
• 1972 – Hank Williams III

DECEMBER 11

• 1908 – Elliott Carter
• 1912 – Carlo Ponti
• 1926 – Big Mama Thornton
• 1931 – Rita Moreno
• 1938 – McCoy Tyner
• 1939 – Tom Hayden
• 1940 – David Gates
• 1940 – Donna Mills
• 1943 – John Kerry
• 1944 - Brenda Mae Tarpley (aka Brenda Lee)
• 1947 – Teri Garr
• 1958 – Nikki Sixx

DECEMBER 10

• 1822 – César Franck
• 1830 – Emily Dickinson
• 1851 – Melvil Dewey
• 1911 – Chet Huntley
• 1923 – Harold Gould
• 1927 – Agnes Nixon
• 1941 – Chad Stuart
• 1957 – Paul Hardcastle
• 1965 – J Mascis
• 1972 – Donavon Frankenreiter
• 1974 – Meg White

DECEMBER 9

• 1608 – John Milton
• 1897 – Hermione Gingold
• 1911 – Lee J. Cobb
• 1916 – Kirk Douglas
• 1922 – Redd Foxx
• 1925 – Dina Merrill
• 1927 – Pierre Henry
• 1928 – Dick Van Patten
• 1929 – John Cassavetes
• 1930 – Buck Henry
• 1931 – William Reynolds
• 1932 – Donald Byrd
• 1934 – Judi Dench
• 1934 – Junior Wells
• 1941 – Beau Bridges
• 1941 – Dan Hicks
• 1944 – Neil Innes
• 1946 – Dennis Dunaway
• 1950 – Joan Armatrading
• 1957 – Donny Osmond
• 1969 – Jakob Dylan
• 1972 – Tré Cool

DECEMBER 8

• 1765 – Eli Whitney
• 1865 – Jean Sibelius
• 1886 – Diego Rivera
• 1894 – James Thurber
• 1913 – Delmore Schwartz
• 1922 – Lucian Freud
• 1922 – Jean Ritchie
• 1925 – Sammy Davis, Jr.
• 1925 – Jimmy Smith
• 1933 – Flip Wilson
• 1936 – David Carradine
• 1939 – Jerry Butler
• 1939 – James Galway
• 1941 – Bobby Elliott
• 1943 – Jim Morrison
• 1947 – Gregg Allman
• 1950 – Dan Hartman
• 1953 – Kim Basinger
• 1953 – Sam Kinison
• 1955 – Kasim Sulton
• 1956 – Warren Cuccurullo
• 1966 – Sinéad O'Connor

DECEMBER 7

• 1910 – Louis Prima
• 1915 – Eli Wallach
• 1923 – Ted Knight
• 1928 – Noam Chomsky
• 1932 – Ellen Burstyn
• 1942 – Harry Chapin
• 1949 – Tom Waits
• 1956 – Larry Bird

DECEMBER 6

• 1896 – Ira Gershwin
• 1900 – Agnes Moorehead
• 1920 – Dave Brubeck
• 1924 – Wally Cox
• 1955 – Rick Buckler
• 1955 – Steven Wright
• 1956 – Peter Buck
• 1956 – Randy Rhoads
• 1962 – Ben Watt
• 1967 – Judd Apatow
• 1971 – Ryan White

DECEMBER 5

• 1906 – Otto Preminger
• 1912 – Sonny Boy Williamson II
• 1932 – Little Richard
• 1934 – Joan Didion
• 1938 – JJ Cale
• 1946 – Andy Kim
• 1947 – Jim Messina
• 1947 – Rick Wills
• 1965 – John Rzeznik

DECEMBER 4

• 1934 – Wink Martindale
• 1939 – Freddy Cannon
• 1944 – Chris Hillman
• 1944 – Anna McGarrigle
• 1944 – Dennis Wilson
• 1947 – Terry Woods
• 1948 – Southside Johnny
• 1949 – Jeff Bridges
• 1951 – Gary Rossington
• 1955 – Cassandra Wilson
• 1966 – Fred Armisen

DECEMBER 3

• 1911 – Nino Rota
• 1925 – Ferlin Husky
• 1927 – Andy Williams
• 1930 – Jean-Luc Godard
• 1931 – Jaye P. Morgan
• 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne
• 1949 – Mickey Thomas
• 1960 – Daryl Hannah
• 1963 – Scott Ian

DECEMBER 2

• 1923 – Maria Callas
• 1925 – Julie Harris
• 1945 – Penelope Spheeris
• 1946 – Gianni Versace
• 1960 – Rick Savage
• 1973 – Monica Seles
• 1978 – Nelly Furtado
• 1981 – Britney Spears

DECEMBER 1

• 1933 – Lou Rawls
• 1934 – Billy Paul
• 1935 – Woody Allen
• 1938 – Sandy Nelson
• 1940 – Richard Pryor
• 1944 – Eric Bloom
• 1944 – John Densmore
• 1945 – Bette Midler
• 1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan
• 1951 – Jaco Pastorius
• 1956 – Julee Cruise
• 1958 – Lisa Fischer
• 1959 – Billy Childish
• 1970 – Sarah Silverman