List of Famous people born on December 23rd

Alexander Filippovich Vedernikov was a Russian Soviet era opera and chamber singer (bass) and teacher. He was soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in 1958–1990.

Vasily Yan. was a Russian writer, author of famous historic novels. Also spelled "Vassily Yan" or just "V. Yan", this is the pen name of Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky.

Valery Nikolayevich Ryzhakov was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984), winner of the USSR State Prize (1980).

Mitsuho Otani is a Japanese actress and television personality.

Thomas Wiltberger Evans was an American dentist. He performed dental procedures on many heads of state, including Napoleon III, and received numerous medals for his dentistry, including the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur. He is noted for popularizing a number of techniques that have since become standard, including the use of amalgam fillings and of nitrous oxide.

Eliseu Lemos Padilha is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, who was appointed by Dilma Rousseff as the Chief-Minister of the Brazilian Civil Aeronautics Government Department. He was in office from January 1, 2015 to December 1, 2015. He has also served as Chief-Minister of Transport and Infrastructure between 1997 and 2001 and four terms as Federal Congressman of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, his birthplace. He is one of the few ministers in Brazilian history to have resigned from a ministerial office because of his divergent position from Dilma's government policies.

Lars-Erik Berenett was a Swedish actor, well known for his title role in the films about Roland Hassel and for his role as Harald Bovallius in the soap opera Skilda världar. Internationally he is best known for his leading role in the series Jordskott. From 1971 to 1976, he was married to Evabritt Strandberg, with whom he had a son, Matti Berenett. Later he married Maria Kulle.

Wolfgang Neuss was a German actor and Kabarett artist. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he also became famous for his political engagement, first for the SPD, then for the extra-parliamentary opposition, APO. He died in 1989 from a longtime cancer.

Elisabeth Rodergas Cols, better known as Beth, is a Spanish singer and actress.

Jean Gachassin is a former French rugby union footballer from Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrénées. Gachassin is also the former President of the Fédération Française de Tennis.