Famous people born on 22 December

12 of the people we track were born on 22 December, best known first, with each one’s age at death, or today. Dates from Wikidata, linked from each person’s page.

1. Basshunter 1984Swedish singer and record producerliving, 41
2. Giacomo Puccini 1858Italian opera composerdied aged 65
3. Jean Racine 1639French playwrightdied aged 59
4. Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887Indian mathematiciandied aged 32
5. Joshua Bassett 2000American actor and singerliving, 25
6. Ralph Fiennes 1962English actor and directorliving, 63
7. Vanessa Paradis 1972French singer and modelliving, 53
8. Guru Gobind Singh 1666Gurudied aged 41
9. Ted Cruz 1970American politicianliving, 55
10. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 1876Italian poetdied aged 67
11. Chagatai Khan 1183Khandied aged 58 or 59
12. Fermín IV 1974Mexican rapperliving, 51