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Events from the year1996 in the United States.

• President:Bill Clinton (D–Arkansas)
• Vice President:Al Gore (D–Tennessee)
• Chief Justice:William Rehnquist (Virginia)^[1]
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Newt Gingrich (R–Georgia)
• Senate Majority Leader:

Bob Dole (R–Kansas) (until June 12)

Trent Lott (R–Mississippi) (starting June 12)

• Congress:104th

• January 2 – Philadelphia police officerLauretha Vaird is shot and later pronounced dead during a botched armed bank robbery by rapperCool C. She becomes Philadelphia's first female police officer killed in the line of duty.
• January 7 – One of the worstblizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 150 people. Philadelphia receives a record 30 inches of snowfall and New York City's public schools close for the first time in 18 years. The federal government in Washington, D.C. is closed for several days, extending the time federal employees are out of the office from the1996 federal government shutdown.
• January 19 – TheNorth Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboatScandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown,Rhode Island. TheNorth Cape barge is pulled along with it and leaks 820,000 gallons of home heating oil.
• January 23 –State of the Union Address.
• January 26
  • Whitewater scandal: U.S. First LadyHillary Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
  • Millionaire philanthropistJohn Eleuthère du Pont shoots dead his protégé, Olympic wrestlerDave Schultz, atFoxcatcher Farm.
• January 28 –Super Bowl XXX: TheDallas Cowboys become the first NFL franchise to win 3Super Bowls in a span of 4 seasons, as they defeat thePittsburgh Steelers 27–17 atSun Devil Stadium inTempe, Arizona. It is the Cowboys' fifthSuper Bowl championship.

• February 1 –Sundance Channel debuts.
• February 2 –Frontier Middle School shooting: A gunman kills his algebra teacher and two other students inMoses Lake, Washington.
• February 6 –1996 Honolulu hostage crisis: A gunman takes hostages at his former place of employment inHonolulu, Hawaii.
• February 15 – The U.S. Embassy inAthens, Greece comes under mortar fire.
• February 16 –1996 Maryland train collision: A Chicago-boundAmtrak train, theCapitol Limited,collides with aMARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
• February 17 – InPhiladelphia,Garry Kasparovbeats "Deep Blue" in a secondchess match.^[2]
• February 24 –Cuban fighter jets shoot down two American aircraft belonging to the Cuban exile groupBrothers to the Rescue. Cuban officials assert that they invaded Cuban airspace.
• February 29 – InLumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder ofJames Jordan, the father of basketball starMichael Jordan.

• March 4 –DISH Network, a Direct Broadcast Satellite service, begins as a service ofEchoStar.
• March 8 – ThePeople's Republic of China beginssurface-to-surface missile testing and military exercises offTaiwanese coastal areas. The United States government condemns the act as provocation, and theTaiwanese government warns of retaliation.
• March 10 – InMesquite, Nevada, motorcycle stunt riderButch Laswell is killed in front of a crowd of spectators, after a motorcycle stunt goes horribly wrong.
• March 16 – LPGA Tour golferMuffin Spencer-Devlincomes out as gay in the pages ofSports Illustrated magazine. She was the first LPGA player to come out.
• March 19 – InLos Angeles,Lyle and Erik Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
• March 25
  • An 81-day-long standoff begins between anti-governmentFreemen and federal officers inJordan, Montana.
  • The68th Academy Awards, hosted byWhoopi Goldberg, are held atDorothy Chandler Pavilion inLos Angeles, withMel Gibson'sBraveheart winning five awards out of ten nominations, includingBest Picture andBest Director. The telecast garners over 44.8 million viewers.
• March 30 – After being convicted of the murder of Colleen Slemmer inTennessee, 20-year-oldChrista Pike becomes the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period.^[3]

• April 3
  • ABoeing 737 military jet crashes into a mountain north ofDubrovnik,Croatia. All 35 people on board die, includingUnited States Secretary of CommerceRon Brown (see1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash).
  • Suspected "Unabomber"Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at hisMontana cabin.
• April 9 – President Bill Clinton signs theLine Item Veto Act of 1996, granting the U.S. presidentline-item veto power. Just over two years later, in the case ofClinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998), theSupreme Court of the United States would rule that the law is unconstitutional.
• April 11 –Jessica Dubroff, 7, is killed in a plane crash inCheyenne, Wyoming while attempting to set a record as the youngest person to pilot an airplane across the United States.
• April 16 – The NBA's 1995–1996Chicago Bulls, withMichael Jordan's lead, go on to set a new NBA record for the most wins in a season, achieving their 70th win.
• April 24 – President Bill Clinton signs theAntiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 into law.
• April 29 – TheBroadway hit musicalRent opens at theNederlander Theatre.

• May 8 – TheKeck II telescope is dedicated inHawaii.
• May 10 –Twister is released in theaters to commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing movie in the history ofWarner Bros.
• May 11 – After takeoff fromMiami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handledoxygen canisters in the cargo hold ofAtlanta-boundValuJet Flight 592, causes theDouglas DC-9 to crash in theFlorida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
• May 20 –Gay rights –Romer v. Evans: TheSupreme Court of the United States rules against a law that prevents any city, town or county in the state ofColorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights ofhomosexuals.
• May 30 – TheHoover Institution releases an optimistic report thatglobal warming will probably reduce mortality in the United States and provide Americans with valuable benefits.^[4]

• June –Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the U.S. fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.
• June 10 – TheColorado Avalanche wins their first Stanley Cup in their first season based out ofDenver, Colorado, defeating theFlorida Panthers 4 games to none. Avalanche captainJoe Sakic wins theConn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
• June 12 – InPhiladelphia, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on theinternet. The panel says that the 1996Communications Decency Act would infringe upon thefree speech rights of adults.
• June 13 – An 81-day standoff between theMontana Freemen andFBI agents ends with their surrender inMontana.
• June 16 – TheChicago Bulls win their fourthNBA Championship by defeating theSeattle SuperSonics in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 2.
• June 20 – The last fourth-generationChevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line at the GM Assembly Plant inBowling Green, Kentucky.
• June 21 –Walt Disney Pictures' 34th feature film,The Hunchback of Notre Dame, considered to be one of the studio's darkest animated films, is released to positive reviews and commercial success.
• June 25 – The Khobar Towers bombing inSaudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi local.
• June 28 – Universal Pictures releasesThe Nutty Professor, a remake of a1963 film of the same name, in theaters. The film is a commercial and box office success, ranking as the 8th highest-grossing movie of the year.

• July 12 –Hurricane Bertha makes landfall inNorth Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270 million in damage to the United States and its possessions and many indirect deaths.
• July 17 – Paris and Rome-boundTWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) explodes off the coast ofLong Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.
• July 19 – The1996 Summer Olympics inAtlanta begin.
• July 27 – TheCentennial Olympic Park bombing at the1996 Summer Olympics kills 2 and injures 111.
• July 29 – The child protection portion of theCommunications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as "too broad" by a U.S. federal court.

• August – The unemployment rate drops to 5.1%, the lowest since March 1989, which saw the lowest rate of the previous business cycle.
• August 1 –Michael Johnson wins the 200m finals of1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta in a world-record time of 19.32 seconds.
• August 6 –NASA announces that theAllan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate fromMars, may contain evidence of primitive life-forms; further tests are inconclusive.
• August 15 –Bob Dole is nominated forPresident of the United States, andJack Kemp for vice president, at theRepublican National Convention inSan Diego,California.
• August 16 –Binti Jua, agorilla, saves a three-year-old boy who fell into the 20 foot (6.1 m) deep gorilla enclosure atBrookfield Zoo,Chicago.
• August 19 – Theinvasive speciesAsian long-horned beetle is found inNew York.^[5]
• August 21 – President Bill Clinton signs theWar Crimes Act of 1996 into law.
• August 22 – President Clinton signs the landmarkPersonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act into law.
• August 23 –Osama bin Laden writes "The Declaration of War on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.
• August 24 –Gabe Newell andMike Harrington found theValve Corporation.
• August 26
  • During the1996 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Seven activistDavid Dellinger, antiwar activistBradford Lyttle, and nine others are arrested by theFederal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at theKluczynski Federal Building in downtownChicago.^[6]
• August 29
  • Tiger Woods makes his professional PGA Tour debut at the Greater Milwaukee Open, four days after winning his third consecutive U.S. Amateur Championship.
  • U.S. PresidentBill Clinton and Vice PresidentAl Gore are re-nominated at theDemocratic National Convention inChicago.
• August 31 – TheBig 12 Conference is inaugurated with a football game betweenKansas State University andTexas Tech University inManhattan, Kansas.

• September 3
  • Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the U.S. fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council.^[7]
  • The U.S. launchesOperation Desert Strike againstIraq in reaction to the attack onArbil inIraqi Kurdistan.
• September 4 - The1996 MTV Video Music Awards is held atRadio City Music Hall inNew York City. The show was hosted by Dennis Miller and the most nominated artist of the year wasThe Smashing Pumpkins.
• September 5 –Hurricane Fran makes landfall nearCape Fear,North Carolina as aCategory 3 storm with sustained winds of 115 mph, just weeks prior to the landfall ofHurricane Bertha near the same location. It caused $3.2 billion in damages and claimed a total of 27 lives.
• September 7 – Shortly after attending theMike Tyson–Bruce Seldon boxing match at theMGM Grand Las Vegas inParadise, Nevada, rapperTupac Shakur is critically wounded in adrive-by shooting, while cruising theLas Vegas Strip withSuge Knight. Shakur is rushed toUMC Medical Center and placed onlife support.
• September 8 –Blue's Clues premieres on theNick Jr. Channel
• September 12 – 21-year-oldRicardo Lópezcommits suicide in his apartment inHollywood, Florida, after mailing aletter bomb to singerBjörk's home inLondon. He recorded his own suicide using a VHS camera.
• September 13 – Following thedrive-by shooting that left the rapper in critical condition, 25-year-old rapperTupac Shakur dies atUMC Medical Center, after succumbing to his gunshot wounds six day later.
• September 14 – The U.S. wins the inaugural1996 World Cup of Hockey by defeating Canada.
• September 16 –Ricardo López is found dead in his apartment byHollywood Police after reports of a foul odor in the room. After watching his suicide tape, police contactScotland Yard to warn them about anexplosive package on its way toBjörk's home in London.London Metro Police Officers intercept the package and safely detonate it, leavingBjörk unharmed.
• September 24 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs theComprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at theUnited Nations.
• September 29 – Nintendo releases theNintendo 64 in North America.

• October 1 –Animal Planet andDiscovery Civilization are launched.
  • Walt Disney World celebrates its 25th anniversary.
• October 2 – TheElectronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. PresidentBill Clinton.
• October 4 –Discovery Science debuts.
• October 6 –Jim Lehrer hosts the first presidential debate betweenBob Dole andPresident Clinton.
• October 7
  • TheFox News Channel is launched on U.S. cable systems.
  • The popularchildren's TV series,Arthur, debuts onPBS Kids.
• October 7–November 5 — At least sixty-six people become sick and one baby dies as a result of drinkingapple juice infected withE. coli.
• October 9 –Al Gore andJack Kemp participate in the 1996 vice presidential debate inFlorida.
• October 14 – TheDow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to close at 6,010.00, the Dow's first close above 6,000.
• October 16 – The final presidential debate of the1996 election takes place at theUniversity of San Diego.
• October 26 – TheNew York Yankees defeat theAtlanta Braves to win their firstWorld Series in 18 years.

• November 5 –U.S. presidential election, 1996:Democratic incumbentBill Clinton defeatsRepublican challengerBob Dole to win his second term. This election had the lowest voter turnout since 1924.
• November 7 –NASA launches theMars Global Surveyor.
• November 11 –Discovery Kids debuts.
• November 15
  • State Street inChicago is re-opened to pedestrian traffic after a revitalization project.
  • Space Jam, directed byJoe Pytka, is released in theaters.
• November 16 –Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. citizenship.
• November 19 –STS-80:Space ShuttleColumbia conducts the longest mission of theSpace Shuttle program.
• November 21 – A propaneexplosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building inSan Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
• November 25
  • Anice storm strikes the U.S., killing 26 directly and hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blastsFlorida; winds gust to 90 miles per hour (140 km/h).
  • The U.S.stock market, especially theDow Jones Industrial Average, gains at an incredibly fast pace following the 1996 presidential election. It gains 10 days in a row during the month.
• November 26 – TheSands Hotel inLas Vegas is imploded to make way for theVenetian Hotel.
• November –CrossLink International is founded.^[8]

• December 6 – TheGeneral Motors EV1, the first productionelectric car of themodern era, is launched and becomes available for lease.
• December 20 –Steve Jobs' companyNeXT is bought byApple Computer, the company co-founded by Jobs.
• December 25 (probable date) –Death of JonBenét Ramsey: A six-year-old beauty queen is beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home inBoulder, Colorado; her body is found the following day.
• December 31
  • TheAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is merged with theBurlington Northern Railroad to form theBNSF Railway, making it one of the largest railroad mergers in U.S. history.
  • TheHacienda resort on theLas Vegas Strip is imploded to make way for theMandalay Bay.
  • Laurel Mountain (Oregon) receives 204.04 inches (5,182.6 mm) of rainfall equivalent during the year, the most ever recorded for a calendar year in the contiguous United States.^[9]

• Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003)^[10]
• Dot-com bubble (c. 1995–c. 2000)

• January 1 –Stunna 4 Vegas, rapper
• January 2 –Dior Hall, hurdler
• January 5 –Tyler Ulis, basketball player
• January 8 –Khylin Rhambo, actor
• January 9 –Oana Gregory, Romanian-born actress
• January 10 –Curren Caples, skateboarder
• January 15 –Dove Cameron, actress
• January 18
  • Carolena Carstens, taekwondo practitioner
  • Sarah Gilman, actress
  • Alex Scott, cancer charity founder (d. 2004)
• January 21 –Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Dominican-born actor
• January 22 –Sami Gayle, actress
• January 23 –Chachi Gonzales, dancer, choreographer, and actress
• January 27
  • Braeden Lemasters, actor and musician
  • Caitlin Sanchez, actress
  • Trenton Thompson, football player
• January 31 –Joel Courtney, actor
• January 28 –Emily Piriz, singer

• February 3
  • Taylor Caniff, internet personality
  • Alex Ko, actor, dancer, and singer
• February 5 –Matt Watson, YouTuber
• February 6 –Dalton Rapattoni, singer
• February 7
  • David Castro, actor
  • Jake Goldberg, actor
• February 8 –Isadora Williams, Olympic figure skater
• February 9
  • Jimmy Bennett, actor and musician
  • Kelli Berglund, actress and dancer
• February 13
  • Catherine Bouwkamp, Paralympic wheelchair fencer
  • Sydney Chandler, actress
• February 16 –Jimmy Pinchak, actor
• February 17 –Sasha Pieterse, African-born actress
• February 22 –Michael Johnston, actor
• February 23 –D'Angelo Russell, basketball player
• February 24 –Quinn Carpenter, ice dancer
• February 25 –Elijah McClain, African-American man killed by police and paramedics (d. 2019)
• February 28 –Bobb'e J. Thompson, actor

• March 1 –Sage Northcutt, mixed martial artist
• March 4 –Brenna Dowell, artistic gymnast
• March 6 –Dillon Freasier, actor
• March 5 –Kyle Kaiser, racing driver
• March 6 –Savannah Stehlin, actress
• March 10 –Mia Rose Frampton, actress
• March 13 – [ [Tyjae drayton (Parker)]], family friend
• March 15 –Maxwell Jacob Friedman, wrestler
• March 17 –Saeed Blacknall, football player
• March 18 –Madeline Carroll, actress
• March 29 –Wade Baldwin IV, basketball player
• March 24 –Jack Johnson, singer and vocalist
• March 31 –Liza Koshy, YouTuber

• April 1 –Sophia Hutchins, businesswoman and charity executive (d. 2025)
• April 4 –Austin Mahone, singer
• April 6 –VikkiKitty, esports commentator
• April 9 –Emerson Hyndman, soccer player
• April 10
  • Austin Kafentzis, football player
  • Mattie Liptak, actor
  • Logan Tucker, murder victim (d. 2002)
  • Audrey Whitby, actress
• April 11
  • Jake Browning, football player
  • Summer Walker, singer
• April 14 –Abigail Breslin, actress
• April 16
  • Anya Taylor-Joy, actress
  • Taylor Townsend, tennis player
• April 17;
  • Dee Dee Davis, actress
  • Patrick Bolton, navy
• April 18 –Ski Mask the Slump God, rapper
• April 19 –Sam Woolf, singer/songwriter
• April 21 –Tavi Gevinson, blogger
• April 24 –D'Onta Foreman, football player
• April 25 –Allisyn Ashley Arm, actress
• April 28 –Tony Revolori, actor

• May 1 –Megan Keller, ice hockey player
• May 3
  • Mary C. Cain, track and field athlete
  • Arden Key, football player
  • Domantas Sabonis, basketball player
  • Noah Munck, actor
• May 4 –Arielle Gold, Olympic snowboarder
• May 5
  • Christopher Eubanks, tennis player
  • Jax, singer
  • David Sills, football player
  • Britney Simpson, pair skater
• May 6 –Dominic Scott Kay, actor
• May 8 –6ix9ine, rapper
• May 9
  • Noah Centineo, actor
  • Collins Key, magician
  • Mary Mouser, actress
• May 10 –SypherPK, YouTuber and twitch streamer
• May 14
  • McKaley Miller, actress
  • TheOdd1sOut, animator
• May 17 –Ryan Ochoa, actor
• May 18 –Violett Beane, actress
• May 20 –Michael Brown, African-American teen killed by theFerguson Police Department (d. 2014)
• May 19
  • Blocboy JB, rapper
  • Nick DiGiovanni, chef
• May 21 –Josh Allen, football player
• May 22 – Charlie DePew, actor
• May 23 –John Requejo, soccer player
• May 24 –Frank Dolce, actor
• May 26 –Tyler Hilinski, football player (d. 2018)
• May 27 –Gianni Paolo, actor
• May 28
  • Elizabeth Price, Olympic artistic gymnast
  • Dustin McNeer,ANTM model
• May 30
  • Erik Jones, race car driver
  • Kendall Sheffield, football player
• May 31 –Normani, singer

• June 1 – Chase Chrisley, voice actor
• June 2 –Jacy Jayne, wrestler
• June 7 –Christian McCaffrey, football player
• June 10 –Raury, singer/songwriter
• June 11 –Kaleo Kanahele, volleyball player
• June 12
  • Anna Margaret, singer/songwriter and actress
  • Alissa Violet, social media personality
• June 16 –Lily Zhang, tennis player
• June 20 –Claudia Lee, actress and singer/songwriter
• June 25 –Lele Pons, YouTuber and singer

• July 7 –Mikey Musumeci, BJJ practitioner and world champion
• July 8
  • Marlon Humphrey, football player
  • Angela Lee Pucci, mixed martial artist
• July 9 –Shanice Williams, actress and singer
• July 12
  • Jordan Romero, writer
• July 13 –Jena Irene Asciutto, singer
• July 15 –Trevor Stines, actor
• July 16
  • Kevin Abstract, rapper, singer/songwriter, and director
  • Chayce Beckham, singer
  • Nicky Jones, voice actor
• July 17 –Grace Caroline Currey, actress
• July 20 –Joey Bragg, actor and comedian
• July 22 –Skyler Gisondo, actor
• July 23
  • Danielle Bradbery, singer
  • Rachel G. Fox, actress and singer
  • David Dobrik, YouTuber
• July 24
  • Cade Foehner, singer
  • Joe Mixon, football player
• July 25
  • Michael Weist, talent manager
  • Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark, daughter ofPavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
• July 27 –Ashlyn Sanchez, actress
• July 30
  • Dylan Larkin, ice hockey player
  • Jacob Lofland, actor
  • Austin North, actor
  • Yasmin Siraj, figure skater
  • Marko Stunt, wrestler
  • Angela Wang, figure skater
• July 31 –Blake Michael, actor

• August 1 –Cymphonique Miller, actress and singer
• August 2;
  • Simone Manuel, Olympic swimmer
  • Ian Finnerty, swimmer
• August 3 –Derwin James, football player
• August 6 –Merrell Twins, YouTubers
• August 10 –Jacob Latimore, actor, singer, and rapper
• August 14 –Brianna Hildebrand, actress
• August 16 –Caeleb Dressel, Olympic swimmer
• August 21 –Jamia Simone Nash, singer and actress
• August 25 –Naelee Rae, actress and singer
• August 30 –Trevor Jackson, actor, writer, singer, and dancer

• September 1 –Zendaya, actress, singer, and dancer
• September 2 –Austin Abrams, actor
• September 6 –Lil Xan, rapper
• September 10 –Jack Gilinsky, singer and vocalist
• September 11 –Brandon Butler, actor
• September 12 –Colin Ford, actor
• September 13 –Lili Reinhart, actress
• September 15 –Jake Cherry, actor
• September 18
  • Kurt Doss, actor
  • C. J. Sanders, actor
• September 19 –Royce Rodriguez, rapper
• September 26 –Jaelin Kauf, Olympic freestyle skier

• October 3 –Adair Tishler, actress, model, and singer
• October 4
  • Keith Lee, martial artist and food critic
  • Ryan Lee, actor
• October 5 –Mary Gibbs, actress
• October 9
  • Jacob Batalon, actor
  • Austin Sikora, model
• October 12 –Paulie Koch, wakeboarder
• October 14
  • Madison Cunningham, singer
  • Lourdes Leon, model
• October 17 – Daniel de Leon, Real Estate Developer
• October 18 –Dorian McMenemy, Olympic swimmer
• October 19
  • Chance Perdomo, actor (d. 2024)
  • Phallon Tunnis-Joyce, soccer player
• October 23 –Sam Berns, high school student withprogeria and documentary subject (d. 2014)
• October 24 –Kyla Ross, Olympic gymnast
• October 25 –Keean Johnson, actor and dancer
• October 28
  • Jasmine Jessica Anthony, actress
  • Jack Eichel, ice hockey player
  • Naelee Rae, actress and singer
• October 29 –Hannah Miller, figure skater

• November 3 –Aria Wallace, actress and singer
• November 4 –Kaitlin Hawayek, Olympic ice dancer
• November 11 –Tye Sheridan, actor
• November 13
  • Austin Williams, actor
  • Noah Glenn Carter, internet personality
• November 14
  • Sarah Finnegan, Olympic artistic gymnast
  • Mark L. Smith, pianist
• November 15 –Malik Jefferson, football player
• November 16 –Mackenyu, actor
• November 18
  • Christian Kirk, football player
  • Noah Ringer, actor and martial arts practitioner
• November 19
  • FaZe Rug, YouTuber
  • RiceGum, YouTuber
• November 21 –Grace van Patten, actress
• November 22
  • Hailey Bieber, model and socialite
  • Madison Davenport, actress and singer
  • Mackenzie Lintz, actress
  • JuJu Smith-Schuster, football player
• November 23 –Lia Marie Johnson, actress and internet personality
• November 27 – Collin DeShaw, swimmer

• December 2 –Deestroying, Costa Rican-born YouTuber
• December 6 –Stefanie Scott, actress and singer
• December 7 –Asian Doll, rapper
• December 8 –Teala Dunn, actress
• December 9 –Mykayla Skinner, Olympic artistic gymnast
• December 10 –Joe Burrow, football player
• December 11 –Hailee Steinfeld, actress
• December 12
  • Jeff Gladney, football player (d. 2022)
  • Lucas Hedges, actor
  • Oliver Askew, race car driver
• December 13
  • Gabrielle Andrews, tennis player
  • Townley Haas, Olympic swimmer
• December 14 –Mariah Duran, skateboarder
• December 21 –Kaitlyn Dever, actress
• December 27 –Jae Head, actor
• December 29
  • Dylan Minnette, actor and musician
  • Dylan Mulvaney, social media figure
• December 30 –Sabrina Sobhy, squash player

• Grizzly 399, bear
• Cassidy Hutchinson, White House aide
• Ahmed Siddiqui, kidnap victim
• David Steinberg, crossword constructor and editor

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