List of Famous people born in December

Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.

Georges Balandier was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne, and is a member of the Center for African Studies, a research center of the École pratique des hautes études. He held for many years the Editorship of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires de France. He died on 5 October 2016 at the age of 95.

Yasumichi Morita is an interior designer from Ibaraki, Osaka. He undertakes projects in many countries including Japan, New York and Hong Kong.

Lago Junior Wakalible, known as Junior, is an Ivorian footballer who plays for Spanish club RCD Mallorca as a forward.

Clodoaldo Francisco Chagas Ferreira, better known as Clodoaldo, is a Brazilian who works in the attack for Guarani de Juazeiro.

Alain Senderens was a leading French chef and practitioner of Nouvelle Cuisine. Le Figaro credited him as the inventor of food and wine pairings.

Eduardo Alejo Pavlovsky, often nicknamed Tato Pavlovsky, was an Argentine playwright, psychoanalyst, actor and novelist. His best known plays included El señor Galindez in 1973, La muerte de Margueritte Duras, and Potestad.

Semyon Mikhailovich Strugachyov is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, People's Artist of Russia (2008).

Gualberto Villarroel López was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 39th President of Bolivia from 1943 to 1946. A reformist, sometimes compared with Argentina's Juan Perón, he is nonetheless remembered for his alleged fascist sympathies and his violent demise on 21 July 1946.

Oleg Viktorovich Rylkov, known as The Tolyatti Ripper, is a Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile. Between 1992 and 1997, he raped 37 underage girls and killed 6 people in the city of Tolyatti, in the Samara Oblast.