December 4 – Yūko Miyamura, Japanese voice actress, actress and singer December 7 – Hermann Maier, Austrian skier December 9 Tré Cool, American rock musician and drummer (Green Day) Fabrice Santoro, French tennis player December 11 – Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish-Canadian former ice hockey player December 12 Wilson Kipketer, Kenyan-Danish athlete Arihito Muramatsu, Japanese baseball player December 13 – Mauricio Solís, Costa Rican footballer December 14 – Miranda Hart, British comedian and actress December 15 Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor Stuart Townsend, Irish actor December 16 – Zeljko Kalac, Australian footballer December 17 John Abraham, Indian actor Iván Pedroso, Cuban long jumper December 18 – Eimear Quinn, Irish Celtic singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1996 winner December 19 – Alyssa Milano, American actress December 22 – Vanessa Paradis, French singer and actress December 23 – Morgan, Italian singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and X Factor (Italy) judge December 24 – Álvaro Mesén, Costa Rican footballer December 25 Josh Freese, American musician and drummer Qu Yunxia, Chinese middle-distance runner December 27 – Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby player December 28 Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player Kevin Stitt, American politician and businessman and 28th Governor of Oklahoma December 29 Jude Law, British actor Leonor Varela, Chilean actress December 31 – Grégory Coupet, French footballer Deaths January January 1 Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (b. 1888) Patriarch Maximus V of Constantinople, Turkish Orthodox Christian bishop (b. 1897) January 3 – Frans Masereel, Belgian painter and graphic artist (b. 1889) January 7 – Emma P. Carr, American spectroscopist (b. 1880) January 8 – Wesley Ruggles, American film director (b. 1889) January 10 – Nubar Gulbenkian, Ottoman-born Armenian-British oil trader, socialite and intelligence operative (b. 1896) January 14 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899) January 16 – Ross Bagdasarian, American record producer (b. 1919) January 17 – Rochelle Hudson, American actress (b. 1916; heart attack) January 19 – Mohammad Al-Abbasi, 45th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1914) January 25 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal and Luftwaffe officer (b. 1892) January 27 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (b. 1911) January 30 Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard, American-born heiress (b. 1883) Prince Sisowath Watchayavong, 5th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1891) January 31 – King Mahendra of Nepal (b. 1920) February February 5 – Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887) February 7 – Walter Lang, American film director (b. 1896) February 11 – Colin Munro MacLeod, Canadian-American