Editing 1917 (section)

=== December ===
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* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Wenche Foss]], Norwegian actress (d. [[2011]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Kamal Jumblatt]], leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. [[1977]])
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Hurd Hatfield]], American actor (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Ian Johnson (cricketer)|Ian Johnson]], Australian cricketer (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[James Rainwater]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1986]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; Sultan [[Yahya Petra of Kelantan]], King of Malaysia (d. [[1979]])
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Mien Sondakh]], Indonesian actress and singer (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee]], Pakistani poet, author and lexicographer (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 16]] 
** Sir [[Arthur C. Clarke]], English science-fiction author, best known for co-writing the screenplay of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Arthur C. Clarke {{!}} Biography, Works, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-C-Clarke |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=13 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Beatrice Wright (psychologist)|Beatrice Wright]], American psychologist (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Ossie Davis]], African-American actor, film director and activist (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Paul Brinegar]], American actor (d. [[1995]])
* [[December 20]]
** [[David Bohm]], American-born physicist, philosopher and neuropsychologist (d. [[1992]])
** [[Petrus Hugo]], South African [[Second World War|WWII]] fighter pilot (d. [[1986]])
** [[Audrey Totter]], American actress (d. [[2013]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Böll]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite book|title=European Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o4hZAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-16594-3|page=3165}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Marthe Gosteli]], Swiss women's suffrage campaigner (d. [[2017]])
* [[December 24]]
** [[Kim Jong-suk]] is the wife of [[Kim Il-sung]]And She was a freedom fighter and a politician
* [[December 25]] 
** [[Lincoln Verduga Loor]], Ecuadorian journalist, politician (d. [[2009]])
** [[Arseny Mironov]], Russian scientist, engineer and pilot (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Ellis Clarke]], 1st [[President of Trinidad and Tobago]] (d. [[2010]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Ramanand Sagar]], Indian film director (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Seymour Melman]], American industrial engineer (d. [[2004]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Suzy Delair]], French actress, singer (d. [[2020]])