December 7 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 7, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#295 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 7 birthdays
Leopold Kronecker · German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra1823
Pietro Mascagni · Italian composer known for operas1863
Willa Cather · American writer1873
Gabriel Marcel · French philosopher1889
Fay Bainter · American actress1893
Gerard Kuiper · Netherlands-born American astronomer1905
Eli Wallach · American actor1915
Mário Soares · President of Portugal1924
Noam Chomsky · American linguist and activist1928
Ellen Burstyn · American actress1932
Tom Waits · American singer-songwriter and actor1949
Larry Bird · American basketball player and coach1956
Jeffrey Wright · American actor1965
Sara Bareilles · American recording artist1979
Jennifer Carpenter · American actress1979
John Terry · English association football player1980
Robert Kubica · Polish racing and rally driver1984
Jon Moxley · American professional wrestler and actor1985
Aaron Carter · American pop singer, actor and songwriter1987
Nicholas Hoult · English actor1989
On this day in history
1862American Civil War: The Battle of Prairie Grove ended a Confederate attempt to regain control of northwestern Arkansas.
1995The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
2011The United States transferred its last base in the Al Anbar Governorate to the Iraqi government, ending the Anbar campaign.
2015The JAXA space probe Akatsuki entered into orbit around Venus to study the planet's atmosphere, five years after its first attempt failed.
1963Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1971Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
1972Construction workers found the remains of Martin Bormann near Lehrter Station in Berlin, ending a decades-long search after his conviction in absentia at the Nuremberg trials.
1975The Indonesian military began a lengthy occupation of East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism.
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