Birthdays in Music
- Dec 3 Connee Boswell, American jazz singer (The Boswell Sisters; Pete Kelly's Blues), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1976)
- Dec 8 Tony Aubin, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1981)
- Dec 9 Fried Walter [Schmidt], German light music and operetta composer, born in Ottendorf-Okrilla, Germany (d. 1996)
- Dec 11 Norbert Rosseau, Belgian composer, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1975)
- Dec 12 Fred Elizalde, Spanish Filipino composer, born in Manila (d. 1979)
- Dec 12 Roy Douglas, English composer and arranger (Tomorrow We Live-At Dawn We Die), born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent (d. 2015)
- Dec 20 Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist ("Love Is A Many Splendored Thing"; "The Shadow Of Your Smile"; "I Got It Bad, And That Ain't Good"), born in NYC, New York (d. 1984)
- Dec 22 Yoshio Hasegawa, Japanese composer, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1981)
- Dec 25 Cab[ell] Calloway, American bandleader (Minnie the Moocha, Jazzball), born in Rochester, New York
- Dec 27 Nils-Eric Ringbom, Finnish composer, born in Turku (d. 1978)
- Dec 27 Willem Van Otterloo, Dutch conductor, cellist and composer (Melbourne 1967-71), born in Winterswijk, Netherlands (d. 1978)
- Dec 28 Roman Palester, Polish composer: The Weichsel
- Dec 30 Christine Auwen, Dutch model, singer and actress (Haghezangers), born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (d. 1983)