Famous People: December
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All Figures for December (30 results)
King John of England
King of England (1199–1216) Who Granted the Magna Carta (1215), Bedrock of Modern Constitutional Liberty & Human Rights
Moss Hart
Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Dramatist, Legendary Broadway Director & Memoirist
Nelson Mandela
Anti-Apartheid Revolutionary & President of South Africa
Pablo Casals
Legendary Master Cellist, Conductor, Composer & Universal Humanitarian
Pelé
The King of Football ("O Rei"), Three-Time FIFA World Cup Champion & Global Sports Icon
Peter Boyle
Emmy Award-Winning American Character Actor (*Young Frankenstein*, *Taxi Driver*, *Everybody Loves Raymond*)
Sandipan Chattopadhyay
Renowned Avant-Garde Bengali Novelist, Hungry Generation Movement Pioneer & Sahitya Akademi Award Winner
Smita Patil
Two-Time National Award-Winning Actress & Pioneer of Indian Parallel Cinema
Stephen Leacock
Humorist, Author, Satirist & Political Economist
Theodor von Oppolzer
Renowned Austrian Astronomer, Mathematician & Author of the Monumental "Canon of Eclipses"
Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Historian, Whig Statesman, Essayist & Principal Author of the Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860)
Thomas Sankara
President of Burkina Faso, Pan-African Revolutionary & Reformer
Thorleif Haug
Legendary Norwegian Nordic Skier & Three-Time Gold Medalist at the Inaugural 1924 Winter Olympics
Tycho Brahe
Renaissance Danish Astronomical Titan, Alchemist & Pioneer of Empirical Observational Science