| 137131 | December 4 | Birth | 1875 – Joe Corbett, American baseball player and coach (d. 1945) |
| 137132 | December 4 | Birth | 1875 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (d. 1926) |
| 137133 | December 4 | Birth | 1878 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1918) |
| 137134 | December 4 | Birth | 1880 – Tom Taylor, Canadian soccer player (d. 1945) |
| 137135 | December 4 | Birth | 1881 – Erwin von Witzleben, Polish-German field marshal (d. 1944) |
| 137136 | December 4 | Birth | 1883 – Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author and playwright (d. 1969) |
| 137137 | December 4 | Birth | 1886 – Jan Thomée, Dutch footballer (d. 1954) |
| 137138 | December 4 | Birth | 1889 – Lloyd Bacon, American actor and director (d. 1955) |
| 137139 | December 4 | Birth | 1892 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1975) |
| 137140 | December 4 | Birth | 1892 – Liu Bocheng, Chinese commander and politician (d. 1986) |
| 137141 | December 4 | Birth | 1893 – Herbert Read, English poet and critic (d. 1968) |
| 137142 | December 4 | Birth | 1895 – Feng Youlan, Chinese philosopher and academic (d. 1990) |
| 137143 | December 4 | Birth | 1899 – Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and politician (d. 1934) |
| 137144 | December 4 | Birth | 1899 – Charlie Spencer, English footballer and manager (d. 1953) |
| 137145 | December 4 | Birth | 1903 – Anna van der Vegt, Dutch gymnast (d. 1983) |
| 137146 | December 4 | Birth | 1903 – Cornell Woolrich, American author (d. 1968) |
| 137147 | December 4 | Birth | 1904 – Albert Norden, German politician (d. 1982) |
| 137148 | December 4 | Birth | 1908 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |
| 137149 | December 4 | Birth | 1909 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor and singer (d. 1995) |
| 137150 | December 4 | Birth | 1910 – Alex North, American composer (d. 1991) |
| 137151 | December 4 | Birth | 1910 – R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th President of India (d. 2009) |
| 137152 | December 4 | Birth | 1912 – Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1988) |
| 137153 | December 4 | Birth | 1913 – Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (d. 1978) |
| 137154 | December 4 | Birth | 1914 – Rudolf Hausner, Austrian painter and sculptor (d. 1995) |
| 137155 | December 4 | Birth | 1914 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993) |
| 137156 | December 4 | Birth | 1915 – Eddie Heywood, American pianist and composer (d. 1989) |
| 137157 | December 4 | Birth | 1916 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American journalist and author (d. 1994) |
| 137158 | December 4 | Birth | 1919 – I. K. Gujral, Indian poet and politician, 12th Prime Minister of India (d. 2012) |
| 137159 | December 4 | Birth | 1920 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (d. 2013) |
| 137160 | December 4 | Birth | 1920 – Michael Bates, Indian-born English actor (d. 1978) |