List of Famous people born in December
Tatsuo Hori
Tatsuo Hori was a writer, poet, and translator in Shōwa period Japan.
Elizabeth Hartman
Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress of the stage and screen. She is best known for her debut performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. The next year, she appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now as Barbara Darling, for which she was nominated for a second Golden Globe Award. Hartman also starred opposite Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page in Don Siegel's The Beguiled, and the 1973 box office smash and cult favorite Walking Tall. On stage, Hartman was best known for her interpretations of Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, for which she won Ohio's "Actress of the Year" award, and Emily Webb in the 1969 Broadway production of Our Town.
Gustavo Borges
Gustavo França Borges is a Brazilian former competitive swimmer. He swam for Brazil in the Summer Olympic Games in: 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Borges, together with sailor Robert Scheidt, has won the second-most Olympic medals of any Brazilian, with four—one in 1992, two in 1996 and one in 2000—behind sailor Torben Grael. He also has the third-most Pan American Games gold medals of any Brazilian, with eight—behind swimmer Thiago Pereira and table tennis player Hugo Hoyama. Borges was Brazil's flagbearer for the Closing Ceremony at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Óscar González-Quevedo Bruzón
Óscar González-Quevedo Bruzón was a Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest. He was an investigator in the field of parapsychology.
Louis Prima
Louis Leo Prima was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s.
John Minton
Francis John Minton was an English painter, illustrator, stage designer and teacher. After studying in France, he became a teacher in London, and at the same time maintained a consistently large output of works. In addition to landscapes, portraits and other paintings, some of them on an unusually large scale, he built up a reputation as an illustrator of books.
Cherry Hambro
Cherry Hambro, Baroness Hambro, born Cherry Felicity Huggins, was a British journalist who was associated with the fashion scene in 1960s swinging London when she worked for Vogue, Queen magazine and as the first fashion editor of the Saturday colour magazine of The Daily Telegraph. In her youth she was known for her love of aircraft, fast cars, fast boats and fast men. Later, she was the second wife of the banker Lord Hambro.
Béatrice Uria-Monzon
Béatrice Uria Monzon is a French mezzo-soprano.
Denzel Perryman
Denzel Perryman is an American football middle linebacker for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Miami.
Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. The most prominent themes of Ozu's work are marriage and family, especially the relationships between generations. His most widely acclaimed films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953), Floating Weeds (1959), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).