List of Famous people born in December

Boris Fyodorovich Schlözer (Schloezer), was a writer, musicologist and French translator of Russian origin.

Lothar Gall is a German historian known as "one of German liberalism's primary historians". He was professor of history at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1975 until his retirement in 2005.

Sir Antonio Pappano is an English-Italian conductor and pianist. He has been music director of the Royal Opera House since 2002. In 2015 he received a Gold Medal from the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Erastus Corning I was an American businessman and politician.

George III, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg was Landgrave of Leuchtenberg from 1531 to 1555.

Fiorenzo Magni was an Italian professional road racing cyclist.

Anna Sofia Palm de Rosa was a Swedish artist and landscape painter. In the 1890s she became one of Sweden's most popular painters with her watercolours of steamers and sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm. She also painted a memorable picture of a game of cards in Skagen's Brøndums Hotel while she spent a summer with the Skagen Painters. At the age of 36, Anna Palm left Sweden for good, spending the rest of her life in the south of Italy, where she married an infantry officer.