| 140881 | December 14 | Birth | 1897 – Margaret Chase Smith, American educator and politician (d. 1995) |
| 140882 | December 14 | Birth | 1901 – Paul of Greece (d. 1964) |
| 140883 | December 14 | Birth | 1902 – Frances Bavier, American actress and singer (d. 1989) |
| 140884 | December 14 | Birth | 1903 – Walter Rangeley, English sprinter (d. 1982) |
| 140885 | December 14 | Birth | 1908 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1996) |
| 140886 | December 14 | Birth | 1908 – Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player (d. 2001) |
| 140887 | December 14 | Birth | 1908 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 140888 | December 14 | Birth | 1909 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) |
| 140889 | December 14 | Birth | 1911 – Spike Jones, American singer, actor, and bandleader (d. 1965) |
| 140890 | December 14 | Birth | 1911 – Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1998) |
| 140891 | December 14 | Birth | 1911 – Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish athlete and resistance member (d. 1943) |
| 140892 | December 14 | Birth | 1913 – Dan Dailey, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (d. 1978) |
| 140893 | December 14 | Birth | 1914 – Karl Carstens, German lieutenant and politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1992) |
| 140894 | December 14 | Birth | 1914 – Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943) |
| 140895 | December 14 | Birth | 1914 – Nam Phương, Vietnamese wife of Bảo Đại (d. 1963) |
| 140896 | December 14 | Birth | 1914 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (d. 2003) |
| 140897 | December 14 | Birth | 1915 – Rashid Behbudov, Georgian-Azerbaijani singer and actor (d. 1989) |
| 140898 | December 14 | Birth | 1916 – Shirley Jackson, American author (d. 1965) |
| 140899 | December 14 | Birth | 1917 – C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish author and politician |
| 140900 | December 14 | Birth | 1917 – Elyse Knox, American actress and fashion designer (d. 2012) |
| 140901 | December 14 | Birth | 1917 – June Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004) |
| 140902 | December 14 | Birth | 1918 – James T. Aubrey, American broadcaster (d. 1994) |
| 140903 | December 14 | Birth | 1918 – Radu Beligan, Romanian actor |
| 140904 | December 14 | Birth | 1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014) |
| 140905 | December 14 | Birth | 1920 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (d. 2015) |
| 140906 | December 14 | Birth | 1922 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001) |
| 140907 | December 14 | Birth | 1922 – Don Hewitt, American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes (d. 2009) |
| 140908 | December 14 | Birth | 1922 – Junior J. Spurrier, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1984) |
| 140909 | December 14 | Birth | 1922 – Antonio Larreta, Uruguayan theatre actor, critic and writer (d. 2015) |
| 140910 | December 14 | Birth | 1923 – Gerard Reve, Dutch-Belgian author and poet (d. 2006) |