12 December: today's birthdays

• Guel Arraes - Brazilian film and television director, born Miguel Arraes de Alencar Filho 
• Nathaniel Chalobah - English soccer player born in Sierra Leone
• Archie Cochrane - Scottish doctor. He wrote Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services
• Jennifer Connelly - American actress. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting actress in 2002
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie - French physician and philosopher. He wrote L'Homme Machine and 
  L'Art de jouir
• Gustave Flaubert - French writer. His major works are Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education
• Dorin Nicolae Goian - Romanian soccer player
• Mary Harron - Canadian screenwriter and film director. She directed I Shot Andy Warhol and American Psycho
• Lucas Hedges - American actor. He starred with Julia Roberts in Ben is back, directed by his father Peter Hedges
• Sophie Kinsella - Pen name of English writer Madeleine Sophie Wickham. She wrote The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
• Wilson Kipketer - Former Kenyan-born Dutch athlete
• Edvard Munch - Norwegian painter and printmaker. The Scream is his most famous painting
• Bill Nighy - English actor. He worked in film, theatre and television
• Frank Sinatra - American singer and actor of Italian descent. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting actor and two Onorary ones
• Dionne Warwick - American singer and actress. She is the cousin of Whitney Houston
• Tom Wilkinson - English actor
• Yasujiro Ozu - Japanese film director