| 138661 | December 8 | Birth | 1941 – Bobby Elliott, English drummer (The Hollies) |
| 138662 | December 8 | Birth | 1941 – Geoff Hurst, English footballer and manager |
| 138663 | December 8 | Birth | 1943 – Larry Martin, American paleontologist and ornithologist (d. 2013) |
| 138664 | December 8 | Birth | 1943 – Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter and poet (The Doors and Rick & the Ravens) (d. 1971) |
| 138665 | December 8 | Birth | 1943 – James Tate, American poet and academic (d. 2015) |
| 138666 | December 8 | Birth | 1943 – Bodo Tümmler, German runner |
| 138667 | December 8 | Birth | 1943 – Mary Woronov, American actress, director, and screenwriter |
| 138668 | December 8 | Birth | 1944 – George Baker, Dutch singer-songwriter |
| 138669 | December 8 | Birth | 1944 – Ted Irvine, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 138670 | December 8 | Birth | 1944 – Vince MacLean, Canadian educator and politician |
| 138671 | December 8 | Birth | 1945 – John Banville, Irish author and journalist |
| 138672 | December 8 | Birth | 1946 – John Rubinstein, American actor, director, and composer |
| 138673 | December 8 | Birth | 1946 – Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress |
| 138674 | December 8 | Birth | 1947 – Chava Alberstein, Polish-born Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 138675 | December 8 | Birth | 1947 – Gregg Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band and Hour Glass) |
| 138676 | December 8 | Birth | 1947 – Gérard Blanc, French singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2009) |
| 138677 | December 8 | Birth | 1947 – Thomas Cech, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 138678 | December 8 | Birth | 1947 – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish author and poet |
| 138679 | December 8 | Birth | 1947 – Margaret Geller, American astrophysicist |
| 138680 | December 8 | Birth | 1947 – Bruce Kimmel, American actor, director, and producer |
| 138681 | December 8 | Birth | 1948 – Luis Caffarelli, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic |
| 138682 | December 8 | Birth | 1949 – Mary Gordon, American author and academic |
| 138683 | December 8 | Birth | 1949 – Nancy Meyers, American director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 138684 | December 8 | Birth | 1949 – Ray Shulman, English violinist, guitarist, and producer (Simon Dupree and the Big Sound and Gentle Giant) |
| 138685 | December 8 | Birth | 1949 – Robert Sternberg, American psychologist and academic |
| 138686 | December 8 | Birth | 1950 – Rick Baker, American actor and makeup artist |
| 138687 | December 8 | Birth | 1950 – Tim Foli, American baseball player, coach, and manager |
| 138688 | December 8 | Birth | 1950 – Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter and producer (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994) |
| 138689 | December 8 | Birth | 1951 – Bill Bryson, American author and academic |
| 138690 | December 8 | Birth | 1951 – Richard Desmond, English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell |