Famous birthdays on December 24
Famous people born on December 24, from every year, and what happened on this day in history.
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
💎 Birthstone
Turquoise
👶 How common
No. 363 of 366
Born on December 24
Selim III
born 1761 · 28th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1789–1807)
Adam Mickiewicz
born 1798 · Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist (1798-1855)
James Prescott Joule
born 1818 · English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)
Charles Hermite
born 1822 · French mathematician (1822-1901)
Howard Hughes
born 1905 · American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
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Ilham Aliyev
born 1961 · President of Azerbaijan since 2003
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Ricky Martin
born 1971 · Puerto Rican singer (born 1971)
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Dima Bilan
born 1981 · Russian pop singer
Lemmy
born 1945 · British rock musician (1945–2015)
Louis Tomlinson
born 1991 · English singer and songwriter
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Ed Miliband
born 1969 · British politician (born 1969)
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Maria Zakharova
born 1975 · Russian foreign ministry spokesperson since 2015
Burak Özçivit
born 1984 · Turkish actor and fashion model (born 1984)
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Serge Aurier
born 1992 · Ivorian association football player
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Yıldıray Baştürk
born 1978 · Turkish association football player (born 1978)
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Ana Brenda Contreras
born 1986 · Mexican actress and singer
Tarja Halonen
born 1943 · President of Finland from 2000 to 2012 (born 1943)
Andrew Yao
born 1946 · computer scientist and computational theorist
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Edwige Fenech
born 1948 · French-Italian actress
Mircea Diaconu
born 1949 · Romanian actor and politician, MEP (1949–2024)
Irene Khan
born 1956 · Bangladeshi academic
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Hamid Karzai
born 1957 · President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014
Anil Kapoor
born 1959 · Indian actor
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Choi Jin-sil
born 1968 · South Korean actress (1968-2008)
Amaury Nolasco
born 1970 · Puerto Rican actor
Giorgos Alkaios
born 1971 · Greek recording artist
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Álvaro Mesén
born 1972 · Costa Rican footballer
Marcelo Salas
born 1974 · Chilean footballer
Souleymane Diawara
born 1978 · Senegalese and French footballer
Stephen Appiah
born 1980 · Ghanaian footballer
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Andrew Barron
born 1980 · New Zealand footballer
Theodor Gebre Selassie
born 1986 · Czech footballer (born 1986)
Stefanos Athanasiadis
born 1988 · Greek footballer
Diafra Sakho
born 1989 · Senegalese and French association football player
Michel Babatunde
born 1992 · Nigerian footballer
Yuya Kubo
born 1993 · Japanese association football player
Fabrice Ondoa
born 1995 · Cameroonian footballer
Neeraj Chopra
born 1997 · Indian male javelin thrower
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Alexis Mac Allister
born 1998 · Argentine association football player (born 1998)
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Jesús Ferreira
born 2000 · American soccer player
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Questions about December 24 birthdays
- Who are famous people born on December 24?
- Famous people born on December 24 include Selim III (1761), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), James Prescott Joule (1818), Charles Hermite (1822), Howard Hughes (1905).
- What star sign is someone born on December 24?
- Someone born on December 24 is a Capricorn.
- What is the birthstone for December 24?
- The birthstone for December is turquoise.
- How common is a birthday on December 24?
- In the US, December 24 is the No. 363 most common birthday of the 366, with about 8,034 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).