| 139801 | December 11 | Birth | 1911 – Val Guest, English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2006) |
| 139802 | December 11 | Birth | 1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) |
| 139803 | December 11 | Birth | 1911 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (d. 2009) |
| 139804 | December 11 | Birth | 1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian-Swiss film producer (d. 2007) |
| 139805 | December 11 | Birth | 1913 – Jean Marais, French actor and director (d. 1998) |
| 139806 | December 11 | Birth | 1916 – Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989) |
| 139807 | December 11 | Birth | 1918 – Clinton Adams, American painter and historian (d. 2002) |
| 139808 | December 11 | Birth | 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian soldier and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) |
| 139809 | December 11 | Birth | 1919 – Cliff Michelmore, English television host and producer |
| 139810 | December 11 | Birth | 1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress and singer (d. 2000) |
| 139811 | December 11 | Birth | 1920 – Denis Jenkinson, English motorcycle racer and journalist (d. 1996) |
| 139812 | December 11 | Birth | 1921 – Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (d. 2000) |
| 139813 | December 11 | Birth | 1921 – Liz Smith, English actress |
| 139814 | December 11 | Birth | 1922 – Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005) |
| 139815 | December 11 | Birth | 1922 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) |
| 139816 | December 11 | Birth | 1922 – Grace Paley, American author and poet (d. 2007) |
| 139817 | December 11 | Birth | 1923 – Betsy Blair, American-English actress and dancer (d. 2009) |
| 139818 | December 11 | Birth | 1923 – Nikolai Matvejev, Estonian cyclist (d. 1984) |
| 139819 | December 11 | Birth | 1924 – Doc Blanchard, American football player and colonel (d. 2009) |
| 139820 | December 11 | Birth | 1925 – Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and philanthropist |
| 139821 | December 11 | Birth | 1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 139822 | December 11 | Birth | 1925 – James Sullivan, American politician (d. 2012) |
| 139823 | December 11 | Birth | 1926 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 139824 | December 11 | Birth | 1927 – John Buscema, American illustrator (d. 2002) |
| 139825 | December 11 | Birth | 1929 – Axel Anderson, German-Puerto Rican actor and production manager (d. 2012) |
| 139826 | December 11 | Birth | 1930 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress |
| 139827 | December 11 | Birth | 1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor, director, and screenwriter |
| 139828 | December 11 | Birth | 1931 – Rajneesh, Indian guru, mystic, and educator (d. 1990) |
| 139829 | December 11 | Birth | 1931 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (d. 2013) |
| 139830 | December 11 | Birth | 1931 – Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer |