List of Famous people born in December

Carat Cheung is a Canadian-Chinese actress, model and former beauty pageant queen currently based in Hong Kong and currently under Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) management. She is the winner of the 2012 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.

Edda Seippel was a German actress. She appeared in more than 70 films and television shows between 1937 and 1992.

Kishin Shinoyama is a Japanese photographer.

Fredericus (Fred) Jacobus Rutten is a football coach and a former footballer. As a player, Rutten spent his entire career with Twente during the years 1979 to 1992. Following his playing career he also managed FC Twente, before moving on to clubs like FC Schalke 04, PSV, Vitesse Arnhem, Feyenoord, Al Shabab, Maccabi Haifa and more recently Anderlecht.

Junji Hirata is a retired Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a trainer for the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion, known primarily by his ring name Super Strong Machine .

Randolph Lewis Braham was an American historian and political scientist, born in Romania, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A specialist in comparative politics and the Holocaust, he was a founding board member of the academic committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C., and founded The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center in 1979.

Kor Sarr was a Senegalese professional football player and manager.

Ayşe Begüm Onbaşı is a junior Turkish aerobic gymnast competing in three events. She is a gold medalist of World and European championships.

Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, was a German-born Austro-British soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and was renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally. She is considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century.

Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens is a Costa Rican swimmer who competes in the 200 m to 800 m freestyle events. She is Costa Rica's only Olympic gold-medalist, having won the country's first Olympic gold medals at the 1996 Olympics in the 200 meter freestyle. She is a multiple national record holder in the freestyle events.