Who was born on December 7?
– 903 – Abdurahman as-Sufi (986) – Persian astronomer and mathematician.
– 1598 – Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1680) – Italian architect and sculptor.
– 1805 – Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1871) – Swiss illusionist, “father of modern magic”.
– 1863 – Pietro Mascani (1945) – Italian composer.
– 1855 – Dibayev Abdubakr (1933) – Turkologist, ethnographer, folklorist.
– 1905 – Gerard Peter Kuiper (1973) – Dutch and American astronomer.
– 1913 – Khalima Nosirova (2003) – a prominent figure of Uzbek art, opera singer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1916 – Ekaterina Budanova – Soviet fighter pilot, Hero of Russia.
– 1949 – Tom Weitz – American singer, songwriter, composer, actor.
– 1958 – Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca – President of Malta (since 2014).
– 1971 – Vladimir Hakobyan – Soviet and Armenian chess player, grandmaster.
– 1975 – Khairulla Hamidov – Uzbek football expert, football commentator, journalist and poet.
– 1980 – John Terry – English football player.
– 1990 – Ursula Radwanska – Polish tennis player.
– 1994 – Yuzuru Hanyu – Japanese figure skater, Olympic (2014, 2018) and world (2014, 2017) champion.
– 2003 – Catharina-Amalia – Queen of the Netherlands.
