Editing 1890 (section)

=== December ===
* [[December 5]]
** [[David Bomberg]], English painter (d. [[1957]])
** [[Fritz Lang]], Austrian-born film director, screenwriter and actor (d. [[1976]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Dion Fortune]], British occultist (d. [[1946]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Bohuslav Martinů]], Czech composer (d. [[1959]])
* [[December 10]]
** [[László Bárdossy]], 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1946]])
** [[Henry Louis Larsen]], American Marine Corps General; [[Governor of American Samoa]] and [[Governor of Guam]] (d. [[1962]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Carlos Gardel]], [[Argentine tango]] singer (d. [[1935]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Prince Joachim of Prussia]] (suicide [[1920]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Jaroslav Heyrovský]], Czech chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1967]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Hermann Joseph Muller]], American geneticist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1967]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Robert Ripley]], American collector of odd facts (d. [[1949]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Konstantinos Georgakopoulos]], Greek lawyer and professor, 152nd [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (d. [[1973]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Lanoe Hawker]], British fighter pilot (d. [[1916]])