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Notable Birthdays for December 21

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Those born on this date include:

- Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in 1118
- British theologian and American settler Roger Williams in 1603
- American patriot Paul Revere in 1734
- British dog breeder John Jack Russell in 1795
- British statesman Benjamin Disraeli in 1804
- golf Hall of Fame member Walter Hagen in 1892
- baseball Hall of Fame member Josh Gibson in 1911
- former Austrian President and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in 1918
- ventriloquist Paul Winchell in 1922
- former Penn State football Coach Joe Paterno in 1926
- former talk show host Phil Donahue in 1935 (age 79)
- actor Jane Fonda in 1937 (age 77)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Frank Zappa in 1940 and Carl Wilson (Beach Boys) in 1946
- former Chinese President Hu Jintao in 1942 (age 72)
- British guitarist Albert Lee in 1943 (age 71)
- actor Samuel L. Jackson in 1948 (age 66)
- film executive Jeffrey Katzenberg in 1950 (age 64)
- tennis Hall of fame member Chris Evert in 1954 (age 60)
- comedian Ray Romano in 1957 (age 57)
- Olympic gold medal-winning athlete Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1959
- actors Jane Kaczmarek in 1955 (age 59)
- Andy Dick in 1965 (age 49) and Kiefer Sutherland in 1966 (age 48)
- and former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in 1967 (age 47).

 


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