List of Famous people born on December 23rd

Hisao Tani was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was implicated in the Nanjing Massacre and was executed by a Chinese firing squad.

Yisrael Kargman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and its successors between 1957 and 1977.

Pere Navarro i Morera is a Spanish politician and member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia, formerly First Secretary of the PSC between 2011 and 2014.

Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered the element nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is considered a founder of modern mineralogy, for introducing the blowpipe as a tool for mineralogists, and for proposing that the mineral kingdom be organized on the basis of chemical analysis in his book Försök til mineralogie, eller mineral-rikets upställning.

Dan Shea, Daniel J. Shea is a Canadian actor and stunt coordinator who is best known for his recurring role as Sgt. Siler on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.