List of Famous people born in December

Werner Eck is Professor of Ancient History at Cologne University, Germany, and a noted expert on the history and epigraphy of imperial Rome. His main interests are the prosopography of the roman ruling class and the ancient city of Cologne, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.

Piet van de Kamp, known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived in the United States most of his life. He was professor of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director of the college's Sproul Observatory from 1937 until 1972. He specialized in astrometry, studying parallax and proper motions of stars. He came to public attention in the 1960s when he announced that Barnard's star had a planetary system based on observed "wobbles" in of its motion, but this is now known to be false. On November 14, 2018 the Red Dots project announced that Barnard's star hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth.

Henri Nannen was a German journalist and wartime Nazi propagandist. He became one of the most prominent journalists and magazine publishers in Germany.

Bernhard Gustav von Baden-Durlach OSB was a Major General in the Swedish army. After his conversion to Catholicism, he was Abbot of Fulda and Kempten Abbey and also cardinal.