Events in Music
- Dec 1 Galt MacDermot and John Guare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" opens at St James Theater NYC for 613 performances
Event of Interest
Dec 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US

John Lennon

Yoko Ono
Birthdays in Music
- Dec 6 Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor, born in Ōshū, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
- 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

Ricky Martin