Famous people born on 12 December

• Gustave FlaubertFrench novelist · 1821–1880
  58 yrs
• Frank SinatraAmerican singer and actor · 1915–1998
  82 yrs
• Edvard MunchNorwegian painter · 1863–1944
  80 yrs
• Chingiz AĭtmatovSoviet and Kyrgyz author · 1928–2008
  79 yrs
• Nikolay KaramzinRussian writer, poet, critic · 1766–1826
  59 yrs
• Bayezid IIThe eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1447–1512
  64 yrs
• Alfred WernerSwiss chemist Nobel laureate · 1866–1919
  52 yrs
• Marie Louise, Duchess of ParmaEmpress Consort of the French from 1810 to 1814 and Monarch of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla from 1814 to 1847 · 1791–1847
  56 yrs
• Gerd von Rundstedt ↗German Field Marshal during World War II · 1875–1953
  77 yrs
• Connie Francis ↗American singer and actress · 1937–2025
  87 yrs
• Yasujirō Ozu ↗Japanese film director, screenwriter · 1903–1963
  60 yrs
• Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi ↗Persian astronomer · AD 903–986
  82 yrs
• Edward G. Robinson ↗Romanian-American actor · 1893–1973
  79 yrs
• John Jay ↗Founding Father, U.S. Chief Justice from 1789 to 1795 · 1745–1829
  83 yrs
• Erasmus Darwin ↗English physician · 1731–1802
  70 yrs
• Karl Bryullov ↗Russian painter · 1799–1852
  52 yrs
• Vasily Grossman ↗Russian Soviet writer and journalist · 1905–1964
  58 yrs
• John Osborne ↗English playwright · 1929–1994
  65 yrs
• Robert Noyce ↗American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur (1927–1990), co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel · 1927–1990
  62 yrs
• Shogo Kamo ↗Japanese association football player · 1915–1977
  61 yrs
• Bob Barker ↗American game show host · 1923–2023
  99 yrs
• Manu Dibango ↗Cameroonian musician and songwriter, recording artist · 1933–2020
  86 yrs
• Mária Telkes ↗Hungarian–American scientist and inventor · 1900–1995
  94 yrs
• Alexander Ypsilantis ↗Greek general · 1792–1828
  35 yrs
• Mulk Raj Anand ↗Indian English writer · 1905–2004
  98 yrs
• Ahmad Shamloo ↗Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist · 1925–2000
  74 yrs
• Johann I of Saxony ↗King of Saxony · 1801–1873
  71 yrs
• Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr ↗Persian poet and Sufi mystic · 967–1049
  81 yrs
• Ed Koch ↗Former mayor of New York City · 1924–2013
  88 yrs
• Helen Frankenthaler ↗American painter · 1928–2011
  83 yrs
• Iolanda Balaș ↗Romanian high jumper · 1936–2016
  79 yrs
• Hilla Limann ↗Eighth President of the Republic of Ghana · 1934–1998
  63 yrs
• J. Bruce Ismay ↗Chairman of White Star shipping line · 1862–1937
  74 yrs

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