List of Famous people born in December

Deland McCullough

Deland McCullough is a former American and Canadian football running back in the National Football League and Canadian Football League. He is currently the Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach. He played for the Cincinnati Bengals and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He played college football at Miami University. In 2020, McCullough won his first Super Bowl when the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in Super Bowl LIV.

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Robert D. Raiford

First Name Robert
Last Name Raiford
Born on December 27, 1927
Died on November 17, 2017 (aged 89)

Robert D. Raiford was an American radio broadcaster and actor, best known for his political/social commentaries delivered during The John Boy and Billy Big Show, a morning radio program heard on stations throughout the American South. He was from Concord, North Carolina and majored in communication at the University of South Carolina. Raiford got his start in broadcasting in 1944 by calling play by play at baseball games. His first real radio job was at WEGO (AM) in Concord, North Carolina. Raiford has appeared in 28 movies, often portraying judge characters. He frequently closed his commentaries with the line "Who says that? I say that!", which also served as the title of a book containing excerpts from these segments. Early in his career, Raiford worked for WTOP radio and WTOP-TV, both CBS News affiliates in Washington, D.C.. His best-known work was a live radio broadcast on WTOP, a CBS Radio affiliate, covering the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. He also worked at Charlotte radio station WBT, and hosted a show on WIST, which aired Charlotte's first telephone talk radio format. Raiford later taught Communications at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. From 1978 to 1986, Raiford was a news anchor and talk show host for Charlotte's NBC television affiliate, known as WRET-TV and later WPCQ-TV during his tenure there.

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Gillian Armstrong

First Name Gillian
Last Name Armstrong
Born on December 18, 1950 (age 75)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Gillian May Armstrong is an Australian feature film and documentary director, who specializes in period drama. Her films often feature female perspectives and protagonists.

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Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford

First Name Frank
Last Name Longford
Born on December 5, 1905
Died on August 3, 2001 (aged 95)

Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 1st Baron Pakenham, Baron Pakenham of Cowley, known to his family as Frank Longford and styled Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer. A member of the Labour Party, he was one of its longest-serving politicians. He held cabinet positions on several occasions between 1947 and 1968. Longford was politically active until his death in 2001. A member of an old, landed Anglo-Irish family, the Pakenhams, he was one of the few aristocratic hereditary peers ever to serve in a senior capacity within a Labour government.

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Thomas Porteous

First Name Thomas
Last Name Porteous
Born on December 15, 1946 (age 79)

Gabriel Thomas Porteous Jr. is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He served for sixteen years before being impeached and removed from office in December 2010.

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Pete Frates

First Name Pete
Last Name Frates
Born on December 28, 1984
Died on December 9, 2019 (aged 34)

The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, was an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and encourage donations to research. The challenge was co-founded by Pat Quinn and Pete Frates; it went viral on social media during July–August 2014. In the U.S., many people participated for the ALS Association, and in the UK, many people participated for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, although some individuals opted to donate their money from the Ice Bucket Challenge to other organizations.

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Adolph Alexander Weinman

First Name Adolph
Last Name Weinman
Born on December 11, 1870
Died on August 8, 1952 (aged 81)

Adolph Alexander Weinman was a German-born American sculptor and architectural sculptor.

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Erskine Caldwell

First Name Erskine
Last Name Caldwell
Born on December 17, 1903
Died on April 11, 1987 (aged 83)

Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933) won him critical acclaim, but his advocacy of eugenics and the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites became less popular following World War II.

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Jonathan Horton

First Name Jonathan
Last Name Horton
Born on December 31, 1985 (age 40)
Height 155 cm | 5'1

Jonathan Alan Horton is a retired American artistic gymnast. He is the 2008 Olympic silver medalist on high bar, the 2010 World all-around bronze medalist, a two-time Olympian, a two-time U.S. National All-Around Champion, and a 17-time medalist at the U.S. National Championships. At the 2008 Olympics, he also won a bronze medal with his U.S. teammates in the team competition. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he qualified for the high bar event final and finished in sixth place. In 2016, he had surgery on his left rotator cuff and as a result was unable to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Monique Spaziani

First Name Monique
Born on December 16, 1957 (age 68)
Born in Canada, Quebec

Monique Spaziani is a Canadian actress. She is a three-time Genie Award nominee for Best Actress, receiving nominations at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for Happy Memories , at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986 for The Alley Cat and at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for The Revolving Doors .

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