List of Famous people born on December 20th

Fernanda Gattinoni was an Italian fashion designer who was the founder of the Gattinoni atelier. She left Italy at age 17 and worked as an apprentice for the London-based Molineaux fashion house. Gattinoni returned to Italy in 1930 to become head of the creative department for the Ventura atelier after declining an offer to work for Chanel in Paris. In 1946, she established the Gattinoni atelier and designed costumes for Italian notability and notable foreign figures. Gattinoni earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design with her design of Audrey Hepburn's attire in the 1956 film War and Peace. She was appointed Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in July 1998. A biography on Gattinoni was published in 2010 and a garden in Rome was named after the fashion designer four years later.

Antoine Vitez was a French actor, director, and poet. He became a central character and influence on the French theater in the post-war period, especially in the technique of teaching drama. He was also translator of Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Mikhail Sholokhov.

Hisatoshi Shintaku , also known as Masanari Shintaku , is a retired long-distance runner from Japan. He won the 1985 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon, clocking 2:09:51 on December 1, 1985. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 17th place (2:15:42).

Don Juan Alonso de Guzmán y Cabrera, 1st Count of Niebla or Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Osorio was the first Count of Niebla. He was a descendant of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán.

Joseph Cameron Alston was an American badminton player who won major titles between 1951 and 1967.

Renzo Palmer was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1957 and 1988.

Andrei Nikolayevich Maximishin is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. With Anastasia Platonova, he is the 2006 Karl Schäfer Memorial silver medalist and won three gold medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.