| 136771 | December 3 | Birth | 1899 – Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965) |
| 136772 | December 3 | Birth | 1900 – Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2004) |
| 136773 | December 3 | Birth | 1900 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |
| 136774 | December 3 | Birth | 1901 – Glenn Hartranft, American shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1970) |
| 136775 | December 3 | Birth | 1901 – Mildred Wiley, American high jumper (d. 2000) |
| 136776 | December 3 | Birth | 1902 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain and pilot (d. 1976) |
| 136777 | December 3 | Birth | 1902 – Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist (d. 1993) |
| 136778 | December 3 | Birth | 1908 – Edward Underdown, English actor and jockey (d. 1989) |
| 136779 | December 3 | Birth | 1911 – Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and academic (d. 1979) |
| 136780 | December 3 | Birth | 1914 – Irving Fine, American composer and academic (d. 1962) |
| 136781 | December 3 | Birth | 1914 – Kaisa Parviainen, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 2002) |
| 136782 | December 3 | Birth | 1918 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general and politician (d. 2000) |
| 136783 | December 3 | Birth | 1919 – Charles Lynch, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1994) |
| 136784 | December 3 | Birth | 1921 – Phyllis Curtin, American soprano, actress, and academic |
| 136785 | December 3 | Birth | 1921 – John Doar, American lawyer and activist (d. 2014) |
| 136786 | December 3 | Birth | 1922 – Eli Mandel, Canadian poet, critic, and academic (d. 1992) |
| 136787 | December 3 | Birth | 1922 – Sven Nykvist, Swedish director and cinematographer (d. 2006) |
| 136788 | December 3 | Birth | 1923 – Trevor Bailey, English criocketer (d. 2011) |
| 136789 | December 3 | Birth | 1923 – Stjepan Bobek, Croatian-Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2010) |
| 136790 | December 3 | Birth | 1923 – Moyra Fraser, Australian-English actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2009) |
| 136791 | December 3 | Birth | 1924 – Wiel Coerver, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2011) |
| 136792 | December 3 | Birth | 1924 – F. Sionil José, Filipino journalist and author |
| 136793 | December 3 | Birth | 1924 – Roberto Mieres, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2012) |
| 136794 | December 3 | Birth | 1924 – John Winter, Australian high jumper (d. 2007) |
| 136795 | December 3 | Birth | 1925 – Kim Dae-jung, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009) |
| 136796 | December 3 | Birth | 1925 – Ferlin Husky, American singer and guitarist (d. 2011) |
| 136797 | December 3 | Birth | 1927 – Andy Williams, American singer and actor (The Williams Brothers) (d. 2012) |
| 136798 | December 3 | Birth | 1928 – Thomas M. Foglietta, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (d. 2004) |
| 136799 | December 3 | Birth | 1928 – Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Indian-Bangladeshi jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 2014) |
| 136800 | December 3 | Birth | 1929 – John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (d. 2013) |