List of Famous people born in December

Ernest Eugene Charles Augustus Bernard Paul of Hesse-Philippsthal was a member of the House of Hesse and was the last ruling Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal.

Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy is an Iranian actress. Her best-known work outside of Iran is probably The Circle, which has won several awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2000, but is banned in Iran.

Gasparo, count Gozzi was a Venetian critic and dramatist.

Marie Krogh, née Jørgensen, was a Danish physician, physiologist and nutritionist.

René Doynel de Saint-Quentin was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1938 to 1940.

Rasmus Heisterberg is a Danish screenwriter.

Klaus Hepp is a German-born Swiss theoretical physicist working mainly in quantum field theory. Hepp studied mathematics and physics at Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and at the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, where, in 1962, with Res Jost as thesis first advisor and Markus Fierz as thesis second advisor, he received a doctorate for the thesis and at ETH in 1963 attained the rank of Privatdozent. From 1966 until his retirement in 2002 he was professor of theoretical physics there. From 1964 to 1966 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Hepp was also Loeb Lecturer at Harvard and was at the IHÉS near Paris.