List of Famous people born in December
Max Gawn
Max Gawn is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A ruckman, 2.08 metres tall and weighing 108 kilograms (238 lb), Gawn is capable of contributing in both the ruck and forward line. A basketballer and rugby union player at a young age, he pursued his career in Australian rules football and was drafted to the Melbourne Football Club with the thirty-fourth selection in the 2009 AFL draft. He made his AFL debut in the 2011 AFL season. Knee and hamstring injuries hampered his first four seasons in the AFL before he moved into the number one ruck position at Melbourne in 2015 along with All-Australian selection in 2016. Gawn was named as Melbourne's captain at the start of the 2020 AFL season. He also has Geelong Football Club in his back pocket
Jaime Gilinski Bacal
Jaime Gilinski Bacal is a Colombian banker and real estate developer. Gilinski resides in London. According to Forbes, he is the second richest person in Colombia, with a net worth of US$3.6 billion as of 2020.
Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.
Peter Buck
Peter Buck was an American physicist, restaurateur, and philanthropist. He co-founded the Subway fast-food restaurant chain.
Bruno Henrique
Bruno Henrique Pinto, known as Bruno Henrique, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Flamengo and the Brazil national team.
Jimmy Lake
Jimmy Lake is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of Washington. He has coached at both the National Football League (NFL) and college football levels, primarily overseeing defensive backs.
Jana Centeno
Jana Rae Kramer is an American country music singer and actress. She is known for her role as Alex Dupre on the television series One Tree Hill.
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov was a Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Kyrgyz and Russian. He is one of the best known figures in Kyrgyzstan's literature.
Charles Macintosh
Charles Macintosh FRS was a Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric. The Mackintosh raincoat is named after him.
Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy is an English violinist and violist. His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and he has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other music genres.