| 139831 | December 11 | Birth | 1931 – Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 139832 | December 11 | Birth | 1931 – Jerome Rothenberg, American anthropologist and poet |
| 139833 | December 11 | Birth | 1932 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (d. 1991) |
| 139834 | December 11 | Birth | 1932 – Anne Heywood, English actress and singer |
| 139835 | December 11 | Birth | 1932 – Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian pentathlete (d. 2010) |
| 139836 | December 11 | Birth | 1932 – Keith Waldrop, American author and poet |
| 139837 | December 11 | Birth | 1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines |
| 139838 | December 11 | Birth | 1935 – Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 139839 | December 11 | Birth | 1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, Indian journalist and politician, 13th President of India |
| 139840 | December 11 | Birth | 1936 – Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician |
| 139841 | December 11 | Birth | 1936 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 139842 | December 11 | Birth | 1938 – Reg Livermore, Australian actor and singer |
| 139843 | December 11 | Birth | 1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 139844 | December 11 | Birth | 1938 – McCoy Tyner, American pianist and composer |
| 139845 | December 11 | Birth | 1940 – David Gates, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bread) |
| 139846 | December 11 | Birth | 1940 – Donna Mills, American actress and producer |
| 139847 | December 11 | Birth | 1941 – Max Baucus, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China |
| 139848 | December 11 | Birth | 1941 – J. P. Parisé, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2015) |
| 139849 | December 11 | Birth | 1941 – Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988) |
| 139850 | December 11 | Birth | 1941 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991) |
| 139851 | December 11 | Birth | 1942 – Anna Carteret, Indian-English actress |
| 139852 | December 11 | Birth | 1943 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (Hot Chocolate) (d. 2015) |
| 139853 | December 11 | Birth | 1943 – John Kerry, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State |
| 139854 | December 11 | Birth | 1944 – Jon Garrison, American tenor and educator |
| 139855 | December 11 | Birth | 1944 – Lynda Day George, American actress |
| 139856 | December 11 | Birth | 1944 – Brenda Lee, American singer |
| 139857 | December 11 | Birth | 1944 – Juan E. Méndez, Argentinian lawyer, academic, and activist |
| 139858 | December 11 | Birth | 1946 – Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor |
| 139859 | December 11 | Birth | 1946 – Diana Palmer, American journalist and author |
| 139860 | December 11 | Birth | 1947 – Teri Garr, American actress and dancer |