List of Famous people born in December
Arthur Cotter
Bruno Racine
Bruno Racine is a French civil servant and writer.
Nancy Brinker
Nancy Goodman Brinker is the founder of The Promise Fund and Susan G. Komen, an organization named after her only sister, Susan, who died from breast cancer in 1980 at age 36. Brinker was also United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration. Brinker, a breast cancer survivor, uses her experience to heighten understanding of the disease. She speaks publicly on the importance of patient's rights and medical advancements in breast cancer research and treatment. She is currently serving as the World Health Organization's Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control. Brinker is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Promise Me - How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer, released on September 14, 2010.
Sam Coslow
Sam Coslow was an American songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher and market analyst. Coslow was born in New York City. He began writing songs as a teenager. He contributed songs to Broadway revues, formed the music publishing company Spier and Coslow with Larry Spier and made a number of recordings as a performer.
Ayaka Matsumoto
Ayaka Matsumoto is a Japanese volleyball player.
Ernest Bennett
Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett was a British academic, politician, explorer and writer.
Antoine Vaudoyer
Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vaudoyer was a French architect. He was married to Alexandrine-Julie Lagrenée, daughter of the painter, Louis Jean François Lagrenée. Their son, Léon, was also a well-known architect.
Ignatius Farray
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl,, styled Marquess of Tullibardine until 1917, was a Scottish soldier and Unionist politician.
Carl Ferdinand Cori
Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS was a Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen – a derivative of glucose – is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy. In 2004, both were designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of their work that elucidated carbohydrate metabolism.