List of Famous people born in December
Shih Chun-jen
Shih Chun-jen was a Taiwanese neurosurgeon who led the Department of Health from 1986 to 1990.
Bonaldo Giaiotti
Bonaldo Giaiotti was an Italian operatic bass, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.
Henk Rogers
Henk Rogers is a Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur. He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distribute Tetris on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of Bullet-Proof Software and The Tetris Company, which licenses the Tetris trademark. He was instrumental in resolving licensing disputes that brought Tetris to the Game Boy. Nowadays, he serves as Managing Director of The Tetris Company.
Wilhelm Brasse
Wilhelm Brasse was a Polish professional photographer and a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II. He became known as the "famous photographer of Auschwitz concentration camp." His life and work were the subject of the 2005 Polish television documentary film The Portraitist (Portrecista), which first aired in the Proud to Present series on the Polish TVP1 on 1 January 2006.
Krišjānis Kariņš
Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš is a Latvian–American politician, linguist, and businessperson who has served as Minister of Economics, a Member of the European Parliament, and is currently the Prime Minister of Latvia. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, to parents who had left Latvia during the Soviet occupation, he was active in the American Latvian community throughout his youth.
Steve Suissa
Steve Suissa is a French film director and actor. His 2000 film Taking Wing was entered into the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival where he won the award for Best Director.
Julieth Restrepo
Julieth Restrepo is a Colombian model and actress.
Gala León García
Gala León García is a former professional tennis player from Spain. On 21 September 2014 she was announced as the new Davis Cup captain for the Spanish national men's tennis team.
Miguel Lunghi
Miguel Ángel Lunghi is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, paediatrician and mayor of Tandil, where he was born.
Manuel Urrutia Lleó
Manuel Urrutia Lleó was a liberal Cuban lawyer and politician. He campaigned against the Gerardo Machado government and the second presidency of Fulgencio Batista during the 1950s, before serving as president in the first revolutionary government of 1959. Urrutia resigned his position after only seven months, owing to a series of disputes with revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, and emigrated to the United States shortly afterward.