List of Famous people born in December
Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick
Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick was a campaigning socialist who supported many schemes to aid the less well off in education, housing, employment, and pay. She established colleges for the education of women in agriculture and market gardening, first in Reading, then in Studley. She established a needlework school and employment scheme in Essex as well as using her ancestral homes to host events and schemes for the benefit of her tenants and workers. She was a long-term confidant or mistress to the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
Toshinao Sasaki
Toshinao Sasaki is a Japanese freelance journalist and critic, a regular writer for CNET Japan, and a one-time reporter for Mainichi Shimbun. He was born in Hyōgo Prefecture.
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands. He was a professor at the University of Padua (1537–1542) and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.
Paul Cabouat
Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg
Duchess Dorothea Sophia of Saxe-Altenburg was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg.
Anna Vasilchikova
Margaret Majer
Margaret Katherine Kelly was an American instructor of physical education for women and first coach of women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the wife of John B. Kelly Sr., three-time Olympic Gold Medal winner in rowing, and mother of Grace Kelly, actress and princess consort of Monaco, and of John B. Kelly Jr., an accomplished rower. She is also a maternal grandmother of Albert II, Prince of Monaco.
Florian Nüßle
Florian Nüßle is an Austrian snooker player from Graz. In 2017, aged 16, he became his country's youngest national snooker champion.
Vasily Glazunov
Vasily Afanasyevich Glazunov was a Soviet lieutenant general, who was the first commander of the Soviet airborne (VDV). He was twice awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Hiromi Suzuki
Hiromi Suzuki is a former female long-distance runner from Japan. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. Suzuki is best known for winning the world title in the women's marathon at the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece (1997).