Editing 1923 (section)

===December===
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* [[December 1]]
** [[Morris (cartoonist)|Maurice De Bevere]], better known as Morris, Belgian cartoonist, comics artist and illustrator (d. [[2001]]) 
** [[William F. House]], American otologist, inventor of the [[Cochlear implant]] (d. [[2012]])
** [[Dick Shawn]], American actor (d. [[1987]])
** [[Stansfield Turner]], American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Maria Callas]], Greek soprano (d. [[1977]])
* [[December 3]]
** [[Dede Allen]], American film editor (''Bonnie and Clyde'') (d. [[2010]])
** [[Stjepan Bobek]], Yugoslav football player (d. [[2010]])
** [[Moyra Fraser]], British actress (d. [[2009]])
** [[Abe Pollin]], American sports owner (d. [[2009]])
* [[December 4]] 
** [[Vincent Ball]], Australian actor 
** [[Simon Bland]], English soldier and courtier (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 5]] 
** [[Khosiat Boboeva]], Tajikistani historian
** [[Eleanor Dapkus]], American female professional baseball player (d. [[2011]])
** [[Johnny Pate]], American jazz musician 
** [[Philip Slier]], Dutch Jewish typesetter (d. [[1943]])
* [[December 6]] 
** [[Emile Hemmen]], Luxembourg poet and writer (d. [[2021]])
** [[Maury Laws]], American composer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Bryan Thwaites]], English mathematician, educationalist and administrator 
* [[December 7]] 
** [[Robert Geddes (architect)|Robert Geddes]], American architect (d. [[2023]])
** [[Ted Knight]], American actor (d. [[1986]])
* [[December 8]] 
** [[Dewey Martin (actor)|Dewey Martin]], American actor (d. [[2018]])
** [[Rudolph Pariser]], American physicist and polymer chemist (d. [[2021]])
* [[December 9]] 
** [[Jack M. Guttentag]], American academic (d. [[2024]])
** [[Elliot Valenstein]], American psychologist and neuroscientist (d. [[2023]])
* [[December 10]] 
** [[Harold Gould]], American character actor (d. [[2010]])
** [[Abelardo Quinteros]], Chilean composer
** [[Meg Woolf]], English artist (d. [[2023]])
* [[December 11]] 
** [[Betsy Blair]], American film actress (d. [[2009]])
** [[Denis Brian]], Welsh journalist and author (d. [[2017]])
** [[Farhang Mehr]], Iranian-born American Zoroastrian scholar, writer (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Bob Barker]], American game show host (''The Price Is Right'') (d. [[2023]])
** [[Bob Dorough]], American pianist and composer (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Jacqueline Fleury]], French resistance fighter
** [[Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou]], Ethiopian nun (d. [[2023]])
** [[Ken Kavanagh]], Australian motorcycle racer (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 13]]
** [[Philip Warren Anderson]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2020]])
** [[Larry Doby]], African-American baseball player (d. [[2003]])
** [[Doireann MacDermott]], Irish translator, writer and academic (d. [[2024]])
** [[Alfonso Osorio]], Spanish politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Antoni Tàpies]], Catalan painter (d. [[2012]])
** [[Herb Wilkinson]], American basketball player
* [[December 14]]
** [[Sully Boyar]], American actor (d. [[2001]])
** [[Chris Ogunbanjo]], Nigerian lawyer and philanthropist (d. [[2023]])
** [[Gerard Reve]], Dutch writer (d. [[2006]])
* [[December 15]] 
** [[Freeman Dyson]], English-born physicist (d. [[2020]])
** [[Aishah Ghani]], Malaysian politician (d. [[2013]])
** [[Viktor Shuvalov]], Soviet ice hockey player (d. [[2021]])
* [[December 16]] 
** [[Jo-Carroll Dennison]], American actress, [[Miss America]] (d. [[2021]])
** [[Menahem Pressler]], German-American pianist (d. [[2023]])
* [[December 17]] 
** [[Robert William Bradford]], Canadian artist (d. [[2023]])
** [[Jaroslav Pelikan]], American historian (d. [[2006]])
* [[December 18]]
** [[Edwin Bramall]], senior [[British Army]] officer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Émile Knecht]], Swiss Olympic rower (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]], Scottish actor (d. [[1990]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Ambalavaner Sivanandan]], Sri Lankan novelist (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Wat Misaka]], American baseball player (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Peregrine Worsthorne]], English journalist, writer and broadcaster (d. [[2020]])
* [[December 23]]
** [[Dave Bolen]], American athlete and ambassador (d. [[2022]])
** [[José Serra Gil]], Spanish racing cyclist (d. [[2002]])
** [[Enrique Lucca]], Venezuelan sports shooter (d. [[2021]])
** [[TL Osborn]], American televangelist, singer and author (d. [[2013]])
** [[James Stockdale]], U.S. Navy admiral, vice presidential candidate (d. [[2005]])
** [[Earl P. Yates]], American admiral (d. [[2021]])
* [[December 24]] 
** [[George Patton IV]], American general (d. [[2004]])
** [[Simon Perchik]], American poet (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[Luis Álamos]], Chilean football manager (d. [[1983]])
** [[René Girard]], French-American historian (d. [[2015]])
** [[Sonya Olschanezky]], World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])
** [[Satyananda Saraswati]], Indian founder of Satyananda Yoga and Bihar Yoga (d. [[2009]])
** [[Watson family|Billy Watson]], American child actor (d. [[2022]])
** [[Jack Zunz]], South African-English engineer (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 26]]
** [[Richard Artschwager]], American painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. [[2013]])
** [[Dick Teague]], American industrial designer (d. [[1991]]) 
* [[December 27]] – [[Lucas Mangope]], President of Bophuthatswana Bantustan (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 28]] 
** [[Louis Lansana Beavogui]], Guinean politician (d. [[1984]])
** [[Georg Hille]], Norwegian clergyman (d. [[2023]])
** [[Mira Sulpizi]], Italian composer
* [[December 29]] 
** [[Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat]], French mathematician and physicist (d. [[2025]]) 
** [[Cheikh Anta Diop]], Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician (d. [[1986]])
** [[Lily Ebert]], Hungarian-born English Holocaust survivor (d. [[2024]])
** [[David Teacher]], British RAF veteran (d. [[2024]])
** [[Dina Merrill]], American actress, heiress, socialite and philanthropist (d. [[2017]])
** [[Mike Nussbaum]], American actor and director (d. [[2023]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Carl-Göran Ekerwald]], Swedish novelist, literary critic and teacher (d. [[2025]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Balbir Singh Sr.]], Indian hockey player (d. [[2020]])