Events in Music
- Dec 1 Galt MacDermot and John Guare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" opens at St James Theater NYC for 613 performances
Music History
Dec 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
Birthdays in Music
- Dec 6 Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor, born in Ōshū, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
- Dec 7 Stephanie D'Abruzzo, American actress, puppeteer (Avenue Q; Sesame Street), and cabaret singer, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Dec 16 Michael McCary, American R&B singer (Boyz II Men), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Dec 16 Paul van Dyk {Mattias Paul], German DJ, and record producer, born in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
- Dec 18 Noriko Matsueda, Japanese composer
- Dec 21 Matthieu Chedid, French musician, born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France
- Dec 21 Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel, The X's), born in Brownsville, Tennessee
- Dec 23 Masayoshi Yamazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter, born in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Ricky Martin
Dec 24 Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer (Menudo) and actor (General Hospital), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Weddings in Music
Tony Bennett
Dec 29 American singer Tony Bennett (45) weds actress Sandra Grant in Manhattan, New York; divorce in 1983
Deaths in Music
- Dec 6 Hugo Godron, Dutch composer, dies at 71
- Dec 22 Fred Guy, American jazz banjo player and guitarist (Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra; Duke Ellington's Washingtonians), dies at 74
- Dec 23 Carlo Jachino, Italian composer, dies at 84
- Dec 25 Byron Arnold, American composer, dies at 70
- Dec 28 Max Steiner, Austrian composer (Gone With The Wind), dies at 83
- Dec 30 Jan Mul, Dutch composer, dies at 60