Editing 1924 (section)

=== December ===
[[File:M%C3%A1rio_Soares_Dec2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mário Soares]]]]
[[File:Michael Manley.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Manley]]]]
[[File:Krishna bhattarai.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Krishna Prasad Bhattarai]]]]
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* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Alexander Haig]], American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Mitchell K. Hall |title=Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=af6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |date=22 February 2008 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6410-8 |pages=97 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185404/https://books.google.com/books?id=af6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Francisco Sionil José]], Filipino novelist, [[National Artist of the Philippines|Philippine National Artist for Literature]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Francisco Sionil José |title=Conversations with F. Sionil Jose |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvZaAAAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=Vera-Reyes |isbn=978-971-536-103-3 |page=5 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185345/https://books.google.com/books?id=WvZaAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Jakub Tomasz Nowakowski|Jakub Nowakowski]],  Polish [[zoologist]], participant of the [[Warsaw Uprising]]<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.1944.pl/archiwum-historii-mowionej/jakub-tomasz-nowakowski,1380.html | title = ''Jakub Tomasz Nowakowski "Tomek" "Tomasz"'' | publisher = 1944.pl | language = pl | access-date = 9 September 2024}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Wally Cox]], American [[television]], [[motion picture]] actor (d. [[1973]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Bent Fabric]], Danish pianist and composer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Joseph Murrells |title=Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s: An Illustrated Directory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5iIKAQAAMAAJ |year=1984 |publisher=B.T. Batsford |isbn=978-0-7134-3843-7 |page=163 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185346/https://books.google.com/books?id=5iIKAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Mário Soares]], 105th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]], 17th [[President of Portugal]] (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Douglas L. Wheeler |author2=Walter C. Opello, Jr. |title=Historical Dictionary of Portugal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-3kxBySncsC&pg=PA252 |date=10 May 2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7075-8 |pages=252 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185350/https://books.google.com/books?id=e-3kxBySncsC&pg=PA252#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Michael Manley]], 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Cheryl L. A. King |title=Michael Manley and Democratic Socialism: Political Leadership and Ideology in Jamaica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31j7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64 |date=9 May 2003 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-72520-124-8 |pages=64 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190032/https://books.google.com/books?id=31j7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Ed Koch]], Mayor of New York City (1978–1989) (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=John C. Super |author2=Tracy Irons-Georges |title=The Seventies in America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dGkKAQAAMAAJ |year=2006 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-1-58765-230-1 |page=536}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] 
** [[Krishna Prasad Bhattarai]], 29th [[Prime Minister of Nepal]] (d. [[2011]])
** [[Maria Riva]], German-born American actress
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Raj Kapoor]], Indian actor, producer and director (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Annual Obituary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ |year=1988 |publisher=St. Martin's |isbn=978-1-55862-050-6 |page=279 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185940/https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Nissim Ezekiel]], [[Indian Jewish]] poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic (d. [[2004]])<ref name="Mohan">{{cite book |author=Madhuri R. Shah, Ramesh Mohan |title=Symphony: A Book of Poems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxmpcg2aMtkC&pg=PA91 |publisher=Allied Publishers |pages=91 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190032/https://books.google.com/books?id=fxmpcg2aMtkC&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 19]]
** [[Michel Tournier]], French writer (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Susan Petit |title=Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjQk4DvJ_OoC&pg=PA78 |date=1 January 1991 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=90-272-7774-5 |pages=78 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190000/https://books.google.com/books?id=sjQk4DvJ_OoC&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Cicely Tyson]], American actress (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite book |author= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-xrDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA603 |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2017: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |date=23 September 2016 |publisher=Bernan Press |isbn=978-1-59888-859-1 |editor-last=McGuire |editor-first=Holly |pages=603 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190003/https://books.google.com/books?id=q-xrDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA603#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Charlie Callas]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2011]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Bob Kurland]], American basketball player (d. [[2013]])<ref name="Fame1974">{{cite book |author=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |title=Official Souvenir Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgSAQAAMAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |page=1957 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185955/https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgSAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 24]]
** [[Abdirizak Haji Hussein]], Somali diplomat, politician and 4th [[Prime Minister of Somalia]] (d. [[2014]])
** [[Mohammed Rafi]], Indian [[playback singer]] (d. [[1980]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Nagendra Kr Singh |title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: Muh-R |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhJuAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-81-7648-234-9 |page=481 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185956/https://books.google.com/books?id=RhJuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 25]]
** [[Moktar Ould Daddah]], 1st [[President of Mauritania]] (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Cas De Villiers |author2=Elize Moody |title=Francophone Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLsMAQAAIAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=Africa Institute of South Africa |page=125 |isbn=9780798300414 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190840/https://books.google.com/books?id=sLsMAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Rod Serling]], American television screenwriter (''The Twilight Zone'') (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Rod Serling: Dimensions of Imagination |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZQHAQAAMAAJ |year=1984 |publisher=Museum of Broadcasting |page=4 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190833/https://books.google.com/books?id=BZQHAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]], 10th [[Prime Minister of India]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Priya Ranjan Trivedi |title=Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The Man India Needs : the Most Appropriate Leader for the Twentyfirst Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGtuAAAAMAAJ |year=2000 |publisher=World Institution Building Programme |page=181 |isbn=9788176960014 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190901/https://books.google.com/books?id=uGtuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Fatimah Hashim]], Malaysian politician (d. [[2010]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Girma Wolde-Giorgis]], 2nd [[President of Ethiopia]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ethiopiaobserver.com/2016/10/the-life-of-girma-wolde-giorgis/ |title=The Life of Girma Wolde Giorgis |author=Arefayné Fantahun |date=14 October 2016 |website=Ethiopia Observer |access-date=23 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123204932/http://www.ethiopiaobserver.com/2016/10/the-life-of-girma-wolde-giorgis/ |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Yvonne Brill]], Canadian-American engineer (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/27851.aspx |title=Deceased Members - Ms. Yvonne C. Brill |publisher=[[National Academy of Engineering]] |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=October 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017052558/https://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/27851.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>