List of Famous people born in December

Reinaldo Maria Cordeiro, known professionally as Uncle Ray, is a Hong Kong broadcaster, actor, and disc jockey at RTHK Radio 3. He was named "The World's Most Durable DJ" in 2000 by the Guinness Book of World Records. He is of Portuguese descent.

Solange Lackington Gangas is a Chilean actress, director and playwright of film, theater and television. She studied theater at the School of Theater of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. At just 20 years old, she made her debut on television, acting in telenovelas such as La torre 10 (1984) and Bellas y audaces (1988), alongside figures such as Sonia Viveros, Lucy Salgado and Luis Alarcón. During this period, she collaborated with the producer Sonia Fuchs in the Dramatic Area of Televisión Nacional de Chile. She achieved great popularity by playing Estrellita on the daily series Los Venegas. However, her consecration was due to her joining the Dramatic Area of Channel 13, acting in telenovelas such as Sabor a ti, Piel canela, Machos and Brujas. In this period, she achieved a season of great awards for her work, including Apes Awards and Altazor Awards. In 2017, she assumed the title role in Edward Franklin Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?. Her performance in this play earned her positive reviews. A year later, she played Gabriela Mistral in Andrés Kalawski's Mistral, Gabriela, 1945.

Gilbert Stork was an organic chemist. For a quarter of a century he was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. He is known for making significant contributions to the total synthesis of natural products, including a lifelong fascination with the synthesis of quinine. In so doing he also made a number of contributions to mechanistic understanding of reactions, and performed pioneering work on enamine chemistry, leading to development of the Stork enamine alkylation. It is believed he was responsible for the first planned stereocontrolled synthesis as well as the first natural product to be synthesised with high stereoselectivity.

Salah Eddine Mraouni is a Moroccan cyclist.

Paul Henri Marius Lombard was a French politician.

Jules-Henri Desfourneaux was the last French executioner to officiate in public. He came from a long line of executioners named Desfourneaux stretching back many hundreds of years . Like all French executioners since 1792 his method of application of the death penalty was beheading by guillotine.

Melody Anderson is a Canadian social worker and public speaker specializing in the impact of addiction on families. She is a retired actress whose most high-profile role was playing Dale Arden in the 1980 adaptation of Flash Gordon. She later starred in the 1986 film Firewalker, with Chuck Norris. While singing, she also trained as an actress, leading to roles in films and television during the late 1970s and 1980s.

Hassan El Glaoui (1923–2018) was a Moroccan figurative painter best known for his depictions of fantasia horsemen.

Boris Fausto is a Brazilian historian, political scientist and writer.

Reinhard Höppner was a German politician (SPD). and writer.