List of Famous people born in December

Clara Mannes was a German-born American musician and music educator. She and her brother Frank Damrosch also taught at the Veltin School for Girls in Manhattan. With her husband, David Mannes, she founded the Mannes College The New School for Music in 1916.

Dmitry Valeryevich Stotsky is a Russian professional football player. Currently, he plays as an attacking midfielder or right midfielder for FC Krasnodar and Russia national football team.

Kim Christian Beazley is an Australian politician who is currently Governor of Western Australia. He was previously Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1995 to 1996, Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, and Ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2016. He served in multiple roles in the Hawke and Keating Governments from 1983 to 1996.

Henri "Rik" Van Looy is a Belgian former professional cyclist of the post-war period, nicknamed the King of the Classics or Emperor of Herentals. He was twice world professional road race champion, and was the first cyclist to win all five 'Monuments': the most prestigious one-day classics – a feat since achieved by just two others. With 379 road victories he's second to Merckx only. He is ninth on the all-time list of Grand Tour stage winners with thirty-seven victories.

Philipp Karl Buttmann, was a German philologist of French Huguenot ancestry, born in Frankfurt am Main.

Yeoh Tiong Lay was a Malaysian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He founded YTL Corporation, Malaysia's largest conglomerate, with interests in construction, utilities, hotels, property development and technology. YTL is based primarily in Malaysia but has extensive operations in Asia, Australia and the United Kingdom, where it owns the utility Wessex Water.

Josef Bohuslav Foerster was a Bohemian composer of classical music and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster, and his surname is sometimes spelled Förster.

Sir Charles Edward Mott-Radclyffe was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.