21 December: today's birthdays

• Heinrich Böll - German author, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972. He wrote Group Portrait with Lady
• Julie Delpy - French actress, director and screenwriter
  
• Benjamin Disraeli - English politician and writer
  
• Lluís Domènech i Montaner - Catalan architect and politician
  
• Jane Fonda - American actress. She won two Oscars for Best Actress
• Gheorghe Iancu - Romanian-born Italian dancer and choreographer
• Samuel L. Jackson - American actor, born Samuel Leroy Jackson. He has been directed by Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino
• Hans Robert Jauß - German academic
• Jane Kaczmarek - American actress
• Emmanuel Macron - French politician, born Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, 25th President of France. He was Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs during Manuel Valls Government
• Steven Mnuchin - Former American banker now serving as United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Juan Bautista Sacasa - Former Nicaraguan president
• Keifer Sutherland - British-born Canadian actor
• Frank Zappa - American musician and composer of Italian descent, one of the greatest of the 20th century 
• Jan Łukasiewicz - Polish philosopher and logician