List of Famous people born in December
Francesco Algarotti
Count Francesco Algarotti was a Venetian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and opera. He was a friend of Frederick the Great and leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents.
Roland Gumpert
Roland Gumpert is a German engineer and founder of the sports car manufacturer Apollo Automobil. Gumpert is currently the managing director of the sports car manufacturer Gumpert Aiways Automobile, in which he also founded.
Anna Sen
Anna Sergeyevna Sen is a Russian handball player for Rostov-Don and the Russian national team.
Wilmer Ruperti
Wilmer Ruperti is a Venezuelan-born shipping business magnate. Since 2003, he has captured a major share of the market in physically exporting oil from Venezuela to the rest of Latin America, and has become one of Venezuela's wealthiest persons.
Hendrik Tui
Hendrik Tui is a Japanese international rugby union player who currently plays as a loose forward for Suntory Sungoliath in the Top League. From 2015 he will represent the Queensland Reds in Super Rugby.
Tom Stern
Thomas Evans Stern, ASC, AFC is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on films directed by Clint Eastwood, having been his primary cinematographer since Blood Work in 2002. Stern began work as a gaffer in 1977, and for his work in Changeling (2008) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Christian Hadinata
Christian Hadinata is a former Chinese Indonesian badminton player.
Willi Reimann
Willi Reimann ), 45 km northwest of Osnabrück, is a retired German football player and manager.
Pierre Durand
Pierre Durand Sr. was a French equestrian. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.
François Perroux
François Perroux was a French economist. He was named Professor at the Collège de France, after having taught at the University of Lyon and the University of Paris. He founded the Institut de Sciences Economiques Appliquées in 1944. He was an outspoken supporter of corporatism.