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Utkarsh Ambudkar

American actor, rapper and singer.

Born December 8th, 1983 (age 42 years) in Baltimore.

NZo

American professional wrestler and rapper.

Born December 8th, 1986 (age 39 years) in Hackensack.

Sam Hunt

American singer and songwriter.

Born December 8th, 1984 (age 41 years) in Cedartown.

James MacArthur

American actor (1937-2010).

Born December 8th, 1937 in Los Angeles.

Died October 28th, 2010 at 72 years old in Jacksonville (cancer). [ref]

Norman Finkelstein

American political scientist (born 1953).

Born December 8th, 1953 (age 72 years) in Brooklyn.

Badr Hari

Dutch-moroccan kickboxer.

Born December 8th, 1984 (age 41 years) in Amsterdam.

Bill Bryson

American-british author (born 1951).

Born December 8th, 1951 (age 74 years) in Des Moines.

David Harewood

British actor.

Born December 8th, 1965 (age 60 years) in Small Heath.

Nancy Meyers

American film director, producer and screenwriter.

Born December 8th, 1949 (age 76 years) in Philadelphia.

Lee J. Cobb

American actor (1911–1976).

Born December 8th, 1911 in New York City.

Died February 11th, 1976 at 64 years old in Woodland Hills (myocardial infarction).

Josh Donaldson

American baseball player.

Born December 8th, 1985 (age 40 years) in Pensacola. [ref]

Georges Méliès

French filmmaker and illusionist (1861–1938).

Born December 8th, 1861 in Paris. [ref]

Died January 21st, 1938 at 76 years old in Paris (cancer).

Gita Gopinath

Indian-american economist.

Born December 8th, 1971 (age 54 years) in Kolkata.

Lucian Freud

British painter and engraver (1922-2011).

Born December 8th, 1922 in Berlin.

Died July 20th, 2011 at 88 years old in London. [ref]

Ilya Sutskever

Ai researcher.

Born December 8th, 1986 (age 39 years) in Nizhny Novgorod. [ref]

Marisa Abela

English actress.

Born December 8th, 1996 (age 29 years) in Brighton. [ref]

Tyler Mane

Canadian professional wrestler.

Born December 8th, 1966 (age 59 years) in Saskatoon.

Owen Teague

American actor.

Born December 8th, 1998 (age 27 years) in Tampa.

Flip Wilson

American comedian and actor (1933-1998).

Born December 8th, 1933 in Jersey City.

Died November 26th, 1998 at 64 years old in Malibu (liver cancer).

Jean Sibelius

Finnish composer (1865–1957).

Born December 8th, 1865 in Hämeenlinna.

Died September 20th, 1957 at 91 years old in Järvenpää (cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage).

Clay Guida

American mixed martial artist (born 1981).

Born December 8th, 1981 (age 44 years) in Round Lake. [ref]

Geoff Hurst

English footballer (born 1941).

Born December 8th, 1941 (age 84 years) in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Maximilian Schell

Swiss and austrian film and stage actor (1930–2014).

Born December 8th, 1930 in Vienna.

Died February 1st, 2014 at 83 years old in Innsbruck (pneumonia).

Matthew Labyorteaux

American actor.

Born December 8th, 1966 (age 59 years) in Los Angeles.

Bushwick Bill

Jamaican rapper (1966–2019).

Born December 8th, 1966 in Kingston.

Died June 9th, 2019 at 52 years old in Colorado (pancreatic cancer). [ref]

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