Birthdays in Film & TV
- Dec 4 Allan Jackson, American newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), born in Hot Springs, Arkansas (d. 1976)
- Dec 7 Eli Wallach, American actor (Magnificent 7; The Misfits; The People Next Door), born in Brooklyn New York, (d. 2014)
- Dec 8 Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (North by Northwest), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
- Dec 11 Anna van Beers [Graeve], Dutch actress (A Woman like Eve, Diary of a Hooker), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 2011)
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)
Dec 12 American singer (Strangers in the Night; My Way; The Summer Wind) and actor (From Here to Eternity; Guys and Dolls), known as the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", born in Hoboken, New Jersey
- Dec 13 Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens], German-born Austrian actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day), born in Solln, Munich, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1982)
- Dec 14 Clay Warnick, American choral director (Your Show Of Shows), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 1995)
- Dec 14 Daniel "Dan" Dailey, American dancer and actor (You're My Everything, Governor & J.J.), born in NYC, New York (d. 1978)
- Dec 17 André Claveau, French pop singer and actor (Dors, mon amour), born in Paris; (d. 2003)
- Dec 20 Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer & humorist, born in Heybeliada, Ottoman Empire (d. 1995)
- Dec 22 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (Leave it to Beaver), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2010)
- Dec 25 Nora Dunfee, American actress (Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil), born in Belmont, Ohio (d. 1994)
- Dec 27 Mary Kornman, American actress (Desert Trail, Queen of the Jungle, Swing it Professor), born in Idaho Falls, Idaho (d. 1973)