Famous Birthdays
- Dec 5 Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (d. 1942)
- Dec 10 Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
- Dec 10 Henry Nicholas Ridley, West Harling Hall, Norfolk, U.K., Botanist (Malay Peninsula rubber industry)
- Dec 11 Julian Edwards, composer
- Dec 23 Alan Gray, British composer (Trinity College), born in York (d. 1935)
- Dec 25 James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
- Dec 26 Arnold Mendelssohn, German composer, born in Ratibor, Province of Silesia (d. 1933)
- Dec 27 Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist
- Dec 30 Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity)
- Dec 31 Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet