Editing 1899 (section)

=== December ===
[[File:Noel Coward Allan warren edit 1.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Noël Coward]]]]
[[File:Humphrey Bogart 1940.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Humphrey Bogart]]]]
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Tommy Lucchese]], American gangster (d. [[1967]])
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[John Barbirolli]], English conductor (d. [[1970]])
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Hayato Ikeda]], prime minister of Japan (d. [[1965]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[John Qualen]], Canadian-American actor (d. [[1987]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Jean de Brunhoff]], French writer (d. [[1937]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[DeFord Bailey]], American country musician (d. [[1982]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Harold Abrahams]], British athlete (d. [[1978]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68824 |title=Harold Abrahams |website=[[Olympedia]] |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref>
* [[December 16]]
** [[Noël Coward]], English actor, playwright and composer (d. [[1973]])
** [[Aleksander Zawadzki]], [[President of Poland]] (d. [[1964]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Peter Wessel Zapffe]], Norwegian author and philosopher (d. [[1990]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Martin Luther King Sr.]], American Baptist pastor, missionary, and figure in the [[civil rights movement]] (d. [[1984]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[John Sparkman]], American politician (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite web |title=SPARKMAN, John Jackson 1899 – 1985 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000701 |work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref>
* [[December 25]]
** [[Humphrey Bogart]], American actor (d. [[1957]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/birthday-of-reckoning/ |last=Mikkelson |first=David |author-link=David Mikkelson |title=Was Humphrey Bogart Born on Christmas Day? |website=[[Snopes]] |department=Fact Check |date=3 May 2002 |access-date=17 August 2024}}</ref>
** [[Oscar Polk]], American actor (d. [[1949]])
** [[Frank Ferguson]], American actor (d. [[1978]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Eugeniusz Bodo]], Polish actor (d. [[1943]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Nie Rongzhen]], Chinese Communist military leader (d. [[1992]])