Born on December 31

Swedish long-distance runner · b. 1978

football player · b. 1941

politician · 1954–2024

athlete · 1888–1950

Burkinabe footballer · b. 1984

Slovenian association football player · b. 1973

Oscar Winners · b. 1937

entrepreneur · 1919–2016

Oscar Winners · b. 1943

German chess player (1860–1928) · 1860–1928

American scientist · b. 1946

German film actress (1933-1979) · 1933–1979

German journalist and politician · b. 1944

Dutch baseball player · b. 1970

field hockey player and cricketer (1884-1956) · 1884–1956

Danish field hockey player (1895-1972) · 1895–1972

German chess player · b. 1969

American computer scientist · b. 1953

German journalist (1932-1992) · 1932–1992

Australian field hockey player · b. 1981

American army officer and statesman (1880–1959) · 1880–1959

Chinese-Singaporean actress · b. 1965

football player · b. 1972

Hungarian parson, canons · 1855–1921

musician · b. 1969

American football player, linebacker · b. 1981

German actress · 1878–1946

artist · 1869–1954

writer · 1878–1937

German physician and camp doctor in the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp (1912–1966) · 1912–1966

American football player (1928–2022) · 1928–2022

Gen Z Icons · b. 1998

German actress · b. 1983

Azerbaijani scientist · 1915–2016

athlete · 1979–2011

American football player (born 1981) · b. 1981

Finnish actor and musician · b. 1981

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1918–1943) · 1918–1943

Grammy Winners · 1943–1997

Basque anthropologist, etnologist and archaeologist (1889–1991) · 1889–1991

film director · b. 1982

philosopher · b. 1979

film director · 1857–1894

Russian diplomat and athlete, member of International Olympic Committee (1877–1933) · 1877–1933

Gen Z Icons · b. 2000

Togolese footballer · b. 1988

singer · b. 1982

singer-songwriter · 1953–1997

American tennis player · b. 1980

German physician (1932–1985) · 1932–1985

Ghanaian footballer · b. 1989

Brazilian association football player · b. 1962

rapper · b. 1969

German artist (1889-1971) · 1889–1971

entrepreneur · 1937–2006

actor · b. 1977

actor · 1930–2024

Polish weightlifter · b. 1977

Iranian writer · b. 1969

rapper · 1921–1967

musician · 1908–2005

Austrian musician · b. 1975

French actress · b. 1964

Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer (1877-1931) · 1877–1931

American actress (1918–2009) · 1918–2009