Famous People Born on December 31
Famous people born on December 31 include Henri Matisse (1869), Jacques Cartier (1491) and Pope Callixtus III (1378).
BORN ON THIS DAY
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Jacques Cartier
French maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
Pope Callixtus III
Head of the Catholic Church from 1455 to 1458
Val Kilmer
American actor (1959–2025)
Andreas Vesalius
Anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)
Simon Wiesenthal
Austrian Nazi hunter (1908–2005)
Alex Salmond
First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014
Avram Hershko
Hungarian-Israeli biochemist
Émile Loubet
President of France from 1899 to 1906
Seydou Doumbia
Ivorian professional footballer (born 1987)
Charles Edward Stuart
Jacobite leader (1720–1788)
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
British Army officer (1738–1805)
Giovanni Pascoli
Italian poet and classical scholar (1855–1912)
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet (1747–1794)
Herman Boerhaave
Dutch botanist and physician (1668–1738)
Baron Waqa
President of Nauru from 2013 to 2019
DIED ON THIS DAY
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Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish scientist (1627–1691)
Miguel de Unamuno
Spanish writer, philosopher and academic (1864–1936)
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian philosopher and communications scholar (1911–1980)
Pope Sylvester I
Head of the Catholic Church from 314 to 335
Gustave Courbet
French realist painter (1819–1877)
Commodus
Roman emperor from 177 to 192
John Wycliffe
English Catholic priest and philosopher (1328–1384)
Betty White
American actress and comedian (1922–2021)
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
First President of Georgia (1991–92)
Arnold Rüütel
President of Estonia from 2001 to 2006
Sources
- December 31 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths