page_title: 1978
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1978 / Births / December
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Ian Somerhalder au festival de CannesEnglish: Ian Somerhalder at the Cannes film festival
context_page_description: 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1978th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 978th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1970s decade.
context_section_description: December 1
  Mat Kearney, American singer-songwriter and musician
  Stefan Kapičić, Serbian actor
  December 2
  Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
  Alo Kõrve, Estonian actor
  Christopher Wolstenholme, British musician
  December 4 – Lars Bystøl, Norwegian ski jumper
  December 5
  Neil Druckmann, American video game writer and programmer
  Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
  December 6 – Greg Tadman, Brozher of another Mother
  December 7
  Ronald J. Shurer, American army medic (d. 2020)
  Shiri Appleby, American actress
  Suzannah Lipscomb, English historian
  December 8
  Ian Somerhalder, American actor
  Vernon Wells, American baseball player
  December 9
  Gastón Gaudio, Argentine tennis player
  Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
  December 10 – Summer Phoenix, American actress
  December 12 – Monica Bîrlădeanu, Romanian actress
  December 13 – Cameron Douglas, American actor
  December 15 – Jerome McDougle, American football player
  December 16 – Joe Absolom, British actor
  December 17
  Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
  Chase Utley, American baseball player
  December 18
  Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
  Josh Dallas, American actor
  Katie Holmes, American actress
  December 19 – Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
  December 20
  Geremi, Cameroon footballer
  Jacqueline Saburido, Venezuelan-American social activist (d. 2019)
  December 21 – Shaun Morgan, South African musician and singer-songwriter
  December 22
  Edo Maajka, Bosnian rapper
  Emmanuel Olisadebe, Polish-Nigerian footballer
  Joanne Kelly, Canadian actress
  December 23
  Andra Davis, American football player
  Jodie Marsh, British model
  Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
  Estella Warren, Canadian swimmer, model, and actress
  December 24 – Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer
  December 25 – Paula Seling,  Romanian singer and radio DJ
  December 26 – Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
  December 28 – John Legend, African-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
  December 29
  Alexis Amore, Peruvian actress, dancer, and model
  Angelo Taylor, American athlete
  December 30
  Tyrese Gibson, African-American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, model, and screenwriter
  Inferno, Polish musician
  December 31
  Yulia Barsukova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
  Craig Wayne Boyd, American country music singer
caption: Ian Somerhalder
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