Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : December 21

Check all the award winners born on December 21.
BirthDate
Winner
21-December-1994

Luke Brooks (Australia)

Luke Brooks is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Wests Tigers of the...
21-December-1992

Dale Jennings (England)

Dale Jennings is an English footballer who plays as a winger for Barnsley.
21-December-1985

Karlien van Jaarsveld (South Africa)

Karlien van Jaarsveld is a musician, guitarist and singer.
21-December-1985

Tom Sturridge (United Kingdom)

Thomas Sidney Jerome "Tom" Sturridge is an English actor best known for his work in Being Julia,...
21-December-1974

Karrie Webb (Australia)

Karrie Ann Webb AM is Australia's most successful female professional golfer, and one of the...
21-December-1971

Jeff Prucher (United States of America)

Jeff Prucher is an author.
21-December-1971

Matthieu Chedid (France)

Matthieu Chedid, better known by his stage name ‑M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and...
21-December-1970

Derren Litten (England)

Derren Litten is an English comedy writer and actor. He is best known as the co-writer of the...
21-December-1969

Ahsan Rahim (Pakistan)

Ahsan Rahim is a 2002 Lux Style Award winner.
21-December-1968

Khrystyne Haje (United States of America)

Khrystyne Kamil Haje is an American television and film actress who is best known for her role...
21-December-1966

Kiefer Sutherland (Canada, United Kingdom)

Jack Bauer is a voice actor.
21-December-1965

Masahiro Motoki (Japan)

Masahiro Motoki is a Japanese actor. He portrayed protagonist Daigo Kobayashi in Departures,...
21-December-1963

Govinda (India)

Govinda is an Indian film actor, known for his works in Bollywood. A former politician, Govinda...
21-December-1962

Alexis Alexanian (United States of America, Armenia)

Alexis Alexanian is an American producer, sister of David and cofounder of Elixir Films. Alexis...
21-December-1961

Francis Ng (Hong Kong)

Francis Ng is an actor.
21-December-1959

Giorgio Diritti (Italy)

Giorgio Diritti is a film director, screenwriter, film producer and film editor.
21-December-1959

Florence Griffith Joyner (United States of America)

Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete...
21-December-1959

Sergio Rubini (Italy)

Sergio Rubini is an Italian actor and film director.
21-December-1958

Britta H. Sjogren (United States of America)

Britta H. Sjogren is a writer, screenwriter, film director, film editor and a film producer.
21-December-1957

Ray Romano (United States of America)

Raymond Albert "Ray" Romano is an American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and voice...
21-December-1955

Jane Kaczmarek (United States of America)

Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character of...
21-December-1954

Chris Evert (United States of America)

Christine Marie "Chris" Evert, known as Chris Evert-Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is a former World...
21-December-1954

Tsurutaro Kataoka (Japan)

Tsurutaro Kataoka is a Japanese former professional boxer, TV personality, actor, and artist...
21-December-1953

Betty Wright (United States of America)

Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name, Betty Wright, is a Miami-based soul and...
21-December-1953

András Schiff (United Kingdom, People's Republic of Hungary)

András Schiff is a Hungarian-born Jewish British classical pianist and conductor who has won a...
21-December-1952

Dennis Boutsikaris (United States of America)

Dennis Boutsikaris is an American two-time Obie-Award winning character actor. He is also an...
21-December-1951

James Emery (United States of America)

James Emery is an American jazz guitarist. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Emery played in...
21-December-1951

Nick Gilder (Canada, United Kingdom)

Nicholas George "Nick" Gilder, is an English-Canadian musician who first came to prominence as...
21-December-1950

Tsui Lap-chee (Canada, China)

Professor Lap-chee Tsui, OC, O.Ont is a Hong Kong-Canadian geneticist and currently the...
21-December-1950

David Thacker (United Kingdom)

David Thacker is an English award-winning theatre director. David Thacker is currently the...
21-December-1950

Jeffrey Katzenberg (United States of America)

Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American businessman, film studio executive and film producer. As a...
21-December-1950

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (United States of America)

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is an American dancer, teacher and choreographer of modern dance. She is...
21-December-1948

Samuel L. Jackson (United States of America)

Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American film and television actor and film producer. After becoming...
21-December-1948

Sean McMullen (Australia)

Sean Christopher McMullen is an award-winning Australian science fiction and fantasy author.
21-December-1948

David Michael Frank (United States of America)

David Michael Frank is a film score composer.
21-December-1947

Steve Stern (United States of America)

Steve Stern is a critically acclaimed author from Memphis, Tennessee. Much of his work draws...
21-December-1947

Paco de Lucía (Spain)

Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gomes, known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish flamenco composer,...
21-December-1945

George Faison (United States of America)

George Faison is a dancer and choreographer.
21-December-1944

Etelvino J. H. Bechara (Brazil)

Etelvino J. H. Bechara is a 1996 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
21-December-1944

Michael Tilson Thomas (United States of America)

Michael Tilson Thomas is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently music...
21-December-1943

Albert Lee (England)

Albert William Lee is an English guitarist known for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking...
21-December-1943

Antonio Arnoni Prado (Brazil)

Antonio Arnoni Prado is a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
21-December-1942

Reinhard Mey (Germany)

Reinhard Friedrich Michael Mey is a German "Liedermacher". In France he is known as Frédérik...
21-December-1941
21-December-1941

Josephine Gattuso Hendin (Italy, United States of America)

Josephine Gattuso Hendin is an Italian American feminist novelist and critic.
21-December-1941

Graeme Segal (United Kingdom)

Graeme Bryce Segal FRS is a British mathematician, and professor at the University of...
21-December-1941

Lo Hoi-pang (China, Hong Kong, Canada)

Lo Hoi-pang is a Hong Kong actor for both TVB and ATV, and a singer. Lo attended TVB's Training...
21-December-1940

Frank Zappa (United States of America)

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, composer, recording...
21-December-1939

Carlos do Carmo (Portugal)

Carlos do Carmo, ComIH is a Portuguese fado singer, one of the finest in the "Lisbon Song". He...
21-December-1939

Malcolm Hebden (England)

Malcolm Hebden is an English television and stage actor best known for his role as Norris Cole...
21-December-1938

Larry Bryggman (United States of America)

Arvid Laurence "Larry" Bryggman is an American actor.
21-December-1938

John Harvey (United Kingdom)

John Harvey is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced...
21-December-1935

John G. Avildsen (United States of America)

John Guilbert Avildsen is an American film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director...
21-December-1935

Phil Donahue (United States of America)

Phillip John "Phil" Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and film producer best...
21-December-1932

Edward Hoagland (United States of America)

Edward Hoagland is an author best known for his nature and travel writing.
21-December-1932

U. R. Ananthamurthy (India)

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy is a contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language...
21-December-1931

David Baker (United States of America)

David Nathaniel Baker Jr. is an American symphonic jazz composer at the Indiana University...
21-December-1930

Phil Roman (United States of America)

Philip Roman, is an American animator. He is the founder of animation studios Film Roman and...
21-December-1930

Mary Rasmussen

Mary Rasmussen is a 1967 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
21-December-1930

Otto Thomas Solbrig (United States of America)

Otto Thomas Solbrig is a 1975 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
21-December-1929

John E. Franz (United States of America)

John E. Franz is an organic chemist who discovered the herbicide glyphosate while working at...
21-December-1926

John Herbert McDowell (United States of America)

John Herbert McDowell is a 1962 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
21-December-1926

Arnošt Lustig (Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia)

Arnošt Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and...
21-December-1926

Joe Paterno (United States of America)

Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno, sometimes referred to as "JoePa", was an American college football...
21-December-1926

Freddie Hart (United States of America)

Frederick Segrest, known professionally as Freddie Hart, is an American country musician and...
21-December-1925

Ric Marlow

Ric Marlow is an American songwriter and actor, best known for co-writing with Bobby Scott the...
21-December-1924

Dankwart Rustow (Germany)

Dankwart Alexander Rustow was a professor of political science and sociology. He is perhaps best...
21-December-1923

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (United States of America)

Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the...
21-December-1923

Richard Hugo (United States of America)

Richard Hugo, born Richard Hogan, was an American poet. Primarily a regionalist, Hugo's work...
21-December-1922

John McGreevey (United States of America)

John DeGreevey was an American writer and screenwriter.
21-December-1922

Paul Winchell (United States of America)

Paul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, voice actor, comedian, inventor, and humanitarian,...
21-December-1922

D. M. Marshman, Jr. (United States of America)

Donald M. Marshman, Jr., credited as D.M. Marshman, is an American screenwriter known mainly for...
21-December-1921

William Reid (United Kingdom)

William Reid VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
21-December-1921

Wilbur Zelinsky (United States of America)

Wilbur Zelinsky was an American cultural geographer. He was a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania...
21-December-1921

Luigi Creatore (United States of America)

Luigi Creatore is an American songwriter and record producer. From a musical family, Creatore...
21-December-1921

Harold K. Ticho (United States of America)

Harold K. Ticho is a 1966 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
21-December-1921

Augusto Monterroso (Guatemala)

Augusto Monterroso Bonilla was a Guatemalan writer, known for the ironical and humorous style of...
21-December-1920

Harold Lang (United States of America)

Harold Lang was an American dancer and actor.
21-December-1917

Heinrich Böll (Germany)

Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded...
21-December-1917

Diana Athill

Diana Athill OBE is a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of...
21-December-1916

Herbert E. Klarman

Herbert E. Klarman was a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
21-December-1915

Joaquín González-Muela (Spain)

Joaquín González-Muela is a 1963 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
21-December-1914

Frank Fenner (Australia)

Frank John Fenner, AC, CMG, MBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian scientist with a distinguished...
21-December-1914

Eustace Lycett (United Kingdom)

Eustace Lycett was a special effects supervisor.
21-December-1912

Joseph H. Burchenal

Joseph H. Burchenal, MD was an American oncologist, and a winner of the 1972 Albert Lasker Award...
21-December-1911

Richard Lionel Predmore (United Kingdom)

Richard Lionel Predmore was a 1970 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
21-December-1910

Marvin Aubrey Davis (United States of America)

Marvin Aubrey Davis was a film art director.
21-December-1908

Sylvester Weaver (United States of America)

Sylvester Barnabee "Pat" Weaver was an American radio advertising executive, who became...
21-December-1907

Herbert Andrewartha

Professor Herbert George Andrewartha, BS, MAgSc, DSc, FAA, was a distinguished Australian...
21-December-1905

Robert Porterfield (United States of America)

Robert Huffard Porterfield, born on December 21, 1905, on the outskirts of Austinville, in Wythe...
21-December-1903

Lawrence Treat (United States of America)

Lawrence Arthur Goldstone, better known by his pseudonym, Lawrence Treat, was an American...
21-December-1898

Ira Sprague Bowen (United States of America)

Ira Sprague Bowen was an American physicist and astronomer. In 1927 he discovered that nebulium...
21-December-1898

Karanbahadur Rana (Nepal)

Karanbahadur Rana VC was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
21-December-1892

William Johnstone Milne (Canada)

William Johnstone Milne VC, was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
21-December-1890

Hermann Joseph Muller (United States of America)

Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for...
21-December-1890

Frances Goodrich (United States of America)

Frances Goodrich was an American dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her collaborations...
21-December-1879

William Henry Johnston (United Kingdom)

William Henry Johnston VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
21-December-1847

John Chard (United Kingdom)

Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard VC was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross,...
21-December-1822

Henry Curtis (United Kingdom)

Henry Curtis VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
21-December-1805

Thomas Graham (Scotland)

Thomas Graham FRS was a nineteenth-century Scottish chemist who is best-remembered today for his...