The 341st day of the year, the 342nd in a leap year
Born on 7 December
Every 7 December birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Turquoise, Zircon, TanzaniteThe 1912 list gave Turquoise and Lapis lazuli.
- Birth flower
- Narcissus, HollyUsually taken today to mean good wishes and defence.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 7 December in any year.
Which weekday 7 December falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 7 December falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 7 December is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,750 babies were born on 7 December in each year of the twenty, making it the 348th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 7 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Gian Lorenzo Bernini | 1598–1680 | Italian sculptor and architect |
| John Terry | 1980– | English association football player |
| Pietro Mascagni | 1863–1945 | Italian composer known for operas |
| Robert Kubica | 1984– | Polish racing and rally driver |
| Leopold Kronecker | 1823–1891 | German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra |
| Willa Cather | 1873–1947 | American writer |
| Eli Wallach | 1915–2014 | American actor |
| Mário Soares | 1924–2017 | President of Portugal |
| Gerard Kuiper | 1905–1973 | Netherlands-born American astronomer |
| Theodor Schwann | 1810–1882 | German physiologist |
| Iveta Radičová | 1956– | Slovak politician and sociologist, former prime minister |
| Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi | 903–986 | Persian astronomer |
| Columba | 521–597 | Irish abbot and missionary in Scotland |
| Yosano Akiko | 1878–1942 | Japanese tanka poet |
| Fay Bainter | 1893–1968 | American actress |
| Yuzuru Hanyu | 1994– | Japanese figure skater |
| Hermann Maier | 1972– | Austrian alpine skier |
| Susan Collins | 1952– | United States Senator from Maine since 1997 |
Died on 7 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Cicero | 106–43 BC | Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher |
| Pope Innocent IV | died 1254 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1243 to 1254 |
| Pope Eutychian | died 283 | Pope and Bishop of Rome from 275 to 283 |
| Robert Graves | 1895–1985 | English poet and novelist |
| Élie Ducommun | 1833–1906 | Swiss activist |
| Thornton Wilder | 1897–1975 | American playwright and novelist |
| Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor | 955–983 | Holy Roman Emperor from 973 to 983 and King of Italy from 980 to 983 |
| Félix Houphouët-Boigny | 1905–1993 | President of Ivory Coast from 1960 to 1993 |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | 1900–1979 | British-born American astronomer |
| Michel Ney | 1769–1815 | French general |
| Ferdinand de Lesseps | 1805–1894 | French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal |
| Chuck Yeager | 1923–2020 | American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound |
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