List of Famous people born in December

William I, the one-eyed, was Margrave of Meissen. His surname is related to the legend that Saint Benno appeared to him because of his disputes with the Church in a dream and he had an eye gouged out.

Elisabeth Luther was the first daughter and second child born to German priest and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther and his wife, Katharina von Bora. She did not survive infancy.

Armar Lowry-Corry, 3rd Earl Belmore, styled Viscount Corry from 1802 to 1841, was an Irish nobleman and politician.

Kenji Maruyama is a Japanese author. He received the Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Summer’s Passage , in 1966 at the age of 23, becoming the third of an often touted group of college seniors to win the prize at age 23, following Ishihara Shintaro and Oe Kenzaburo.

Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun was a Scottish peer. She died aged 41 after caring for Rowallan Castle. Sir George Gilbert Scott designed an Eleanor Cross style monument to her which was erected in Ashby de la Zouch.