List of Famous people born in December

Koharu Yonemoto is a Japanese badminton player. Teamed-up with Yuriko Miki, they won the 2011 New Zealand and Austrian International tournament. They also won the Grand Prix title at the 2014 Russia Open tournament.

Gershom Scholem, was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah. He was the first professor of Jewish Mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His close friends included Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin and Leo Strauss, and selected letters from his correspondence with those philosophers have been published. He was also friendly with the author Shai Agnon and the Talmudic scholar Saul Lieberman.

Pietro Gazzera was an officer in the Italian Royal Army during World War II, as well as a prewar Italian politician.

Thomas Oliver Kite Jr. is an American professional golfer and golf course architect. He won the U.S. Open in 1992 and spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1989 and 1994.

Nicholas Kemmer was a Russian-born nuclear physicist working in Britain, who played an integral and leading edge role in United Kingdom's nuclear programme, and was known as a mentor of Abdus Salam – a Nobel laureate in physics.

Gilbert John Mellé was an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.

Marcello Piacentini was an Italian urban theorist and one of the main proponents of Italian Fascist architecture.