List of Famous people born in December
Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
Marcial Di Fonzo Bo is an Argentine actor and theatre director. He appeared in more than twenty films since 1997. Di Fonzo Bo directed several plays in France and was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Director in 2011.
Bart Johnson
Barton Robert Johnson, is an American actor, best known for his role as Coach Jack Bolton in the High School Musical film series. He was exposed to the TV and film industry at a young age and began his career in the mid-1990s. His film debut was My Family in 1995. He has also appeared in recurring roles on TV shows Hyperion Bay, Lifetime's The Client List, and Hawaii Five-0. He is married to actress Robyn Lively, with whom he has appeared in Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street. He also appeared in the 2018 adaptation of Little Women.
Minamoto no Yorinobu
Minamoto no Yorinobu was a samurai commander and member of the powerful Minamoto clan. He was the son of Minamoto no Mitsunaka (912–997). Along with his brother Yorimitsu, Yorinobu served the regents of the Fujiwara clan, taking the violent measures the Fujiwara were themselves unable to take. He held the title, passed down from his father, of Chinjufu-shōgun, Commander-in-chief of the Defense of the North. He served as Governor of the Japanese Ise, Shinano, Sagami, Mutsu and Kai Provinces, and was the progenitor of the Kawachi Genji.
Maëlle Ricker
Maëlle Danica Ricker is a Canadian retired snowboarder, who specialised in snowboard cross. She won an Olympic gold medal in the snowboard cross event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, to become the first Canadian woman to win a gold medal on home soil at the Olympics. She is also the 2013 World Champion and two-time Winter X Games Champion.
Pirkko Mannola
Pirkko Mannola is a Finnish actress and singer. She has appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1959. She starred in the film Kaks' tavallista Lahtista, which was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1958 she won the Miss Finland beauty contest.
Alfred Hershey
Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.
Dorris Bowdon
Dorris Estelle Bowdon was an American actress, best known for her role as Rosasharn in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, starring Henry Fonda.
Morton Gould
Morton Gould was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
Olga Pall
Olga Scartezzini-Pall is a former alpine skier from Austria. At the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble she won the downhill event. In addition to the Olympic gold, Pall had two World Cup victories during her career, both in the downhill discipline.