List of Famous people born in December

Major James Richard Edwards Harden DSO MC, known as Richard Harden, was a Northern Irish politician. Born in Tandragee, County Armagh and educated at Bedford School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Armagh from a by-election in 1948 until he resigned his seat on 5 November 1954 by the procedural device of accepting the nominally-paid position of Steward of the Manor of Northstead.

Count Ladislaus Esterházy de Galánta was a Hungarian noble, son of Nikolaus, Count Esterházy, who served as Palatine of Hungary. He was a general in the Imperial Army and fought against the Ottoman Empire.

Samuel Wainer was a Brazilian journalist and author. Wainer was born into a Jewish family from Bessarabia, more precisely in the Edineț District, then part of the Russian Empire. His family immigrated to Brazil in 1912, settling in São Paulo. He would later found and direct the Diretrizes magazine and the Última Hora newspaper. He was married to Danuza Leão, Brazilian journalist and model, sister of Nara Leão. They had a son, Samuel Wainer Filho, who was also a journalist. He died in 1984 in a car accident with a camera operator. Wainer also had more two children: plastic artist Débora "Pinky" Wainer and film producer Bruno Wainer.

Elyse Knox was an American actress, model, and fashion designer.

Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby, PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux, was a French neoclassical, historical and genre painter.