List of Famous people born in December

Robert McElhiney James, known professionally as Bob James, is an American jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote "Angela", the theme song for the TV show Taxi. Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Among his most well known recordings are "Nautilus", "Westchester Lady", "Tappan Zee", and his version of "Take Me to The Mardi Gras".

Violet Kemble-Cooper was an English-American stage and film actress who appeared on stage and in Hollywood film.

Matthew Wren was an influential English clergyman, bishop and scholar.

Bùi Tín was a Vietnamese dissident and People's Army of Vietnam colonel. In 1975, he accepted the South Vietnamese government's surrender on behalf of North Vietnam, thus ending the Vietnam War. After the war, he became disillusioned by corruption and the continuing isolation of the newly-unified Vietnam and decided to leave Vietnam and live in exile in Paris to express his growing dissatisfaction with Vietnam's Communist leadership and their political system.

Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland. She was the wife of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex. Elizabeth was the subject of a portrait by court painter Sir Peter Lely.