Editing 1942 (section)

===December===
[[File:Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (cropped3).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Muhammadu Buhari]]]]
[[File:Paul Butterfield 79.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul Butterfield]]]]
[[File:Hu_Jintao_2012.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hu Jintao]]]]
[[File:The Monkees 1966 - Nesmith.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Michael Nesmith]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[John Clauser]], American quantum physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022|date=2022-10-04|work=[[Nobel Prize]]|publisher=[[The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]]|access-date=2022-10-06|archive-date=October 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004095754/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] – [[Francisque Ravony]], 7th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Alice Schwarzer]], German feminist, founder and publisher of German feminist journal ''EMMA''
* [[December 4]] 
** [[William "Red" Dawson|William “Red” Dawson]], American football player and coach 
** [[Al Hunt]], American columnist 
** [[Gemma Jones]], British actress
* [[December 6]]
** [[Chelsea Brown]], American actress (d. [[2017]])
** [[Peter Handke]], Austrian novelist
* [[December 7]]
** [[Harry Chapin]], American singer-songwriter (d. [[1981]])
** [[Reginald Lewis]], American businessman (d. [[1993]])
** [[Peter Tomarken]], American game-show host (d. [[2006]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Toots Hibbert]], Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter (d. [[2020]])
* [[December 9]]
** [[Dick Butkus]], American football player (d. [[2023]])
** [[Billy Bremner]], Scottish footballer (d. [[1997]]) 
* [[December 17]]
** [[Muhammadu Buhari]], Nigerian army general and 15th [[President of Nigeria]]
** [[Paul Butterfield]], American musician (d. [[1987]])
* [[December 19]]
** [[Milan Milutinovic]], [[President of Serbia]] (d. [[2023]])
** [[Gene Okerlund]], American wrestling announcer (d. [[2019]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Bob Hayes]], African-American athlete (d. [[2002]])
* [[December 21]]
** [[Hu Jintao]], [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]], 6th [[President of the People's Republic of China]]<!-- "Hu" is surname -->
** [[Carla Thomas]], American singer
* [[December 24]] – [[Hédi M'henni]], Tunisian politician (d. [[2024]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Muruga Booker]], American drummer, composer, inventor, artist and recording artist
** [[Charmian Carr]], American actress (d. [[2016]])
** [[Thomas Menino]], 53rd [[Mayor of Boston|Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Rajesh Khanna]], Indian actor (d. [[2012]])
* [[December 30]]
** [[Betty Aberlin]], American actress
** [[Vladimir Bukovsky]], Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident (d. [[2019]])
** [[Anne Charleston]], Australian actress
** [[Allan Gotthelf]], American philosopher (d. [[2013]])
** [[Michael Nesmith]], American musician, singer-songwriter, producer (d. [[2021]])
** [[Janko Prunk]], Slovenian historian
** [[Fred Ward]], American actor and producer (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Taufiq Kiemas]], 5th [[Spouses of the Presidents of Indonesia|First Spouse of Indonesia]] (d. [[2013]])