| 141601 | December 16 | Birth | 1903 – Hardie Albright, American actor (d. 1975) |
| 141602 | December 16 | Birth | 1903 – Harold Whitlock, English race walker and coach (d. 1985) |
| 141603 | December 16 | Birth | 1905 – Piet Hein, Danish mathematician, author, and poet (d. 1996) |
| 141604 | December 16 | Birth | 1907 – Barbara Kent, Canadian-American actress (d. 2011) |
| 141605 | December 16 | Birth | 1910 – Freddie Brown, Peruvian-English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1991) |
| 141606 | December 16 | Birth | 1913 – George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1989) |
| 141607 | December 16 | Birth | 1913 – Salik Lucknawi, Indian journalist and poet (d. 2013) |
| 141608 | December 16 | Birth | 1915 – Turk Murphy, American trombonist and singer (d. 1987) |
| 141609 | December 16 | Birth | 1916 – Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress (d. 2014) |
| 141610 | December 16 | Birth | 1917 – Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2011) |
| 141611 | December 16 | Birth | 1917 – Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (d. 2013) |
| 141612 | December 16 | Birth | 1917 – Arthur C. Clarke, English-Sri Lankan soldier and author (d. 2008) |
| 141613 | December 16 | Birth | 1917 – Ruth Johnson Colvin, American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide |
| 141614 | December 16 | Birth | 1918 – Pierre Delanoë, French songwriter (d. 2006) |
| 141615 | December 16 | Birth | 1918 – Vida Hope, English actress (d. 1963) |
| 141616 | December 16 | Birth | 1920 – Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2005) |
| 141617 | December 16 | Birth | 1921 – Eulalio González, Mexican actor, humorist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, announcer, director and producer (d. 2003) |
| 141618 | December 16 | Birth | 1922 – Cy Leslie, American record producer, founded Pickwick Records (d. 2008) |
| 141619 | December 16 | Birth | 1923 – Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist (Beaux Arts Trio) |
| 141620 | December 16 | Birth | 1923 – Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (d. 2014) |
| 141621 | December 16 | Birth | 1924 – Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator (d. 1993) |
| 141622 | December 16 | Birth | 1926 – James McCracken, American tenor and actor (d. 1988) |
| 141623 | December 16 | Birth | 1926 – A. N. R. Robinson, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014) |
| 141624 | December 16 | Birth | 1927 – Peter Dickinson, English author and poet |
| 141625 | December 16 | Birth | 1927 – Randall Garrett, American author and poet (d. 1987) |
| 141626 | December 16 | Birth | 1928 – Terry Carter, American actor, director, and producer |
| 141627 | December 16 | Birth | 1928 – Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author (d. 1982) |
| 141628 | December 16 | Birth | 1929 – Nicholas Courtney, Egyptian-English actor (d. 2011) |
| 141629 | December 16 | Birth | 1930 – Bill Brittain, American author (d. 2011) |
| 141630 | December 16 | Birth | 1930 – Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (d. 2013) |