Celebrities Born on Christmas Day
scientist Isaac Newton, 1642
Scottish doctor Archibald Pitcairne, 1652
politician Benjamin Pierce, 1757
nurse/ Red Cross founder Clara Barton, 1821
sculptor Aristide Maillol, 1861
the Salvation Army’s Evangeline Cory Booth, 1865
opera singer Giuseppe de Luca, 1876
Nobel laureate Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, 1876
race car driver Louis Chevrolet, 1878
actress Evelyn Nesbit, American actress, 1884
musician Kid Ory, American musician, 1886
hotel chain owner Conrad Hilton, 1887
author and feminist Rebecca West, 1892
Robert Ripley of “Believe It Or Not” fame, 1893
actor Humphrey Bogart, 1899
painter Raphael Soyer, 1899
actor Barton MacLane, 1902
Nobel laureate Gerhard Herzberg, 1904
Nobel laureate Ernst Ruska, 1906
entertainment expert Lord Gray, 1906
band leader Cab Calloway, 1907
author Quentin Crisp, 1908
actor Mike Mazurki, 1911
singer Tony Martin, 1913
sociologist Oscar Lewis, 1914
composer Pete Rugolo, 1915
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, 1918
prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 1924
“The Twilight Zone”‘s Rod Serling, 1924
author/ anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, 1925 or 1931
baseball player Nellie Fox, 1927
actress Mabel King, 1932
singer O’Kelly Isley, Jr., 1937
Brazilian racing driver Wilson Fittipaldi, 1943
entertainer Kenny Everett, 1944
musician Henry Vestine, 1944
musician Noel Redding, 1945
Star Trek producer Rick Berman, 1945
actor Gary Sandy, 1945
singer Jimmy Buffett, 1946
football player Larry Csonka, 1946
baseball player/ manager Gene Lamont, 1946
singer Barbara Mandrell, 1948
Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, 1949
actress Sissy Spacek, 1949
musician Joe Louis Walker, 1949
baseball player Manny Trillo, 1950
political adviser Karl Rove, 1950
actress CCH Pounder, 1952
singer Annie Lennox, 1954
singer Robin Campbell, 1954
singer Steve Wariner, 1954
singer Alannah Myles, 1955
commentator Chris Kamara, 1957
singer Shane McGowan, 1957
football player Hanford Dixon, 1958
baseball player Rickey Henderson, 1960
model Helena Christensen, 1968
hockey player Jim Down, 1968
musician Noel Hogan, 1971
singer Dido, 1971
drummer Josh Freese, 1972
wrestler Chris Harris, 1973
baseball player Hideki Okajima, 1975
skateboarder Jim Greco, 1977
actress Laura Sadler, 1980
actress Katie Wright, 1981
baseball player Willy Taveras, 1981
rapper Shystie, 1982
singers Jessica and Lisa Origliasso, 1984