Editing 1911 (section)

=== December ===
[[File:Broderick Crawford 1970.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Broderick Crawford]]]]
[[File:Necip Mahfuz.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Naguib Mahfouz]]]]
[[File:Trygve Haavelmo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Trygve Haavelmo]]]]
[[File:Ohain.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hans von Ohain]]]]
[[File:Niels Kaj Jerne 1950 crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Niels Kaj Jerne]]]]
* [[December 1]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Walter Alston]], American baseball player, manager (d. [[1984]])
* [[December 3]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Nino Rota]], Italian composer (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2149}}</ref>
* [[December 5]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Władysław Szpilman]], Polish pianist, memoirist (d. [[2000]])
* [[December 8]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Lee J. Cobb]], American actor (d. [[1976]])
* [[December 9]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Broderick Crawford]], American actor (d. [[1986]])
* [[December 10]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Chet Huntley]], American television reporter (d. [[1974]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Val Guest]], British film director (d. [[2006]])
** [[Naguib Mahfouz]], Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[2006]])
** [[Qian Xuesen]], Chinese scientist (d. [[2009]])
* [[December 13]]
** [[Trygve Haavelmo]], Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1999]])
** [[Kenneth Patchen]], American poet and painter (d. [[1972]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz]], Greek-Polish athlete, Resistance member (d. [[1943]])
** [[Spike Jones]], American musician (d. [[1965]])
** [[Hans von Ohain]], German physicist, designer of the first operational jet engine (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 15]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Stan Kenton]], American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0219.html |title=Stan Kenton, Band Leader, Dies; Was Center of Jazz Controversies |first=John S.|last= Wilson |date=August 27, 1979 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 10, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063008/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0219.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
* [[December 17]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[André Claveau]], French singer, [[Eurovision Song Contest]] 1958 winner (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 18]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Jules Dassin]], American director (d. [[2008]])
* [[December 20]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Hortense Calisher]], American author (d. [[2009]])
* [[December 21]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Josh Gibson]], African-American baseball player (d. [[1947]])
* [[December 23]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Niels Kaj Jerne]], English-born immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1994]])
* [[December 25]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Louise Bourgeois]], French-born American artist (d. [[2010]])
* [[December 26]]
** [[Steve Kordek]], American pinball innovator (d. [[2012]])
** [[Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu]] of Japan (d. [[2004]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Abdul Halim (Indonesia)|Abdul Halim]], Indonesian politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Indonesia]] (d. [[1987]])
** [[Anna Russell]], British comedian and singer (d. [[2006]])
* [[December 28]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Sam Levenson]], American humorist and author (d. [[1980]])
* [[December 29]]&nbsp;&ndash; [[Klaus Fuchs]], German theoretical physicist, spy (d. [[1988]])
* [[December 30]]--[[Jeanette Nolan]], American actress (d. [[1998]])