List of Famous people born on December 20th
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Leo McGarry on the NBC political drama series The West Wing. His performance on the show earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in 2002.
Ridouan Taghi
Ridouan Taghi is a Moroccan-Dutch suspect. He is currently held at Nieuw Vosseveld, a maximum security prison in Vught, for suspected involvement in at least ten murders related to organised crime, as well as for his involvement in drug trafficking and the leading of a criminal organisation. Until his late 2019 arrest in Dubai, Taghi was the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands with a record-breaking reward of €100,000.
Dmitry Bykov
Dmitry Lvovich Bykov is a Russian writer, poet and journalist. He is also known as biographer of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava and Maxim Gorky.
Chris Robinson
Christopher Mark Robinson is an American musician. He founded the rock band The Black Crowes with his brother Rich Robinson in 1984. Chris is the lead singer of The Black Crowes, and he and his brother are the only continuous members of the Crowes. He is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, which was formed in 2011 while the Black Crowes were on hiatus.
Jacqueline Pearce
Jacqueline Pearce was a British film and television actress. She was best known for her portrayal of the vampish villain Servalan in the British science fiction TV series Blake's 7, a performance which served as "a sexual awakening for a generation of sci-fi fans." Pearce possessed "considerable depth and emotional range" which "was not often exploited". In 2012, she published a memoir, "From Byfleet to the Bush".
Martavis Bryant
Martavis Alexander Bryant is a gridiron football wide receiver for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Clemson, and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
Robert Oberst
Robert Oberst is an American professional strongman who was awarded his "Pro Card" at the 2012 Dallas Europa Amateur Strongman Competition. He is a yearly competitor of the World's Strongest Man competition and a finalist in the 2013 World's Strongest Man and 2018 World's Strongest Man competitions.
Stevie Wright
Stephen Carlton Wright, better known as Stevie Wright; formerly billed as Little Stevie, was an English-born Australian musician and songwriter who has been called Australia's first international pop star. During 1964–69 he was lead singer of Sydney-based rock and roll band the Easybeats, widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s.
Hung Tzu-yung
Hung Tzu-yung is a Taiwanese politician. Following the death of Hung Chung-chiu, her brother, in 2013, she joined the New Power Party upon its founding in 2015, and won election to the Legislative Yuan. Hung left the NPP in August 2019, partway through her first legislative term.
Bruce Maxwell
Bruce Tyrone Maxwell III is German–born American professional baseball catcher in the New York Mets organization. He had played previously with Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican League. He also has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics.