| 143881 | December 22 | Birth | 1936 – Héctor Elizondo, American actor and director |
| 143882 | December 22 | Birth | 1936 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (d. 1969) |
| 143883 | December 22 | Birth | 1937 – Charlotte Lamb, English author (d. 2000) |
| 143884 | December 22 | Birth | 1937 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian author, poet, and playwright |
| 143885 | December 22 | Birth | 1937 – Ken Whitmore, English author and playwright |
| 143886 | December 22 | Birth | 1938 – Matty Alou, Dominican-American baseball player and scout (d. 2011) |
| 143887 | December 22 | Birth | 1938 – Lucien Bouchard, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Premier of Quebec |
| 143888 | December 22 | Birth | 1939 – James Gurley, American guitarist (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (d. 2009) |
| 143889 | December 22 | Birth | 1940 – Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian rancher and politician (d. 2009) |
| 143890 | December 22 | Birth | 1940 – Mike Molloy, English journalist, author, and illustrator |
| 143891 | December 22 | Birth | 1941 – Jose Duval, Belgian pornographic actor |
| 143892 | December 22 | Birth | 1941 – Tiit Pääsuke, Estonian painter |
| 143893 | December 22 | Birth | 1942 – Jerry Koosman, American baseball player |
| 143894 | December 22 | Birth | 1942 – Dick Parry, English saxophonist (Jokers Wild) |
| 143895 | December 22 | Birth | 1943 – Stefan Janos, Slovak-Swiss physicist and academic |
| 143896 | December 22 | Birth | 1943 – Paul Wolfowitz, American banker and politician, 25th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense |
| 143897 | December 22 | Birth | 1944 – Mary Archer, English chemist and academic |
| 143898 | December 22 | Birth | 1944 – Steve Carlton, American baseball player |
| 143899 | December 22 | Birth | 1944 – Barry Jenkins, English drummer (The Animals and The Nashville Teens) |
| 143900 | December 22 | Birth | 1945 – Frances Lannon, English historian and academic |
| 143901 | December 22 | Birth | 1945 – Diane Sawyer, American journalist |
| 143902 | December 22 | Birth | 1946 – Roger Carr, English businessman |
| 143903 | December 22 | Birth | 1947 – Brian Daley, American author and screenwriter (d. 1996) |
| 143904 | December 22 | Birth | 1948 – Noel Edmonds, English game show host |
| 143905 | December 22 | Birth | 1948 – Steve Garvey, American baseball player and sportscaster |
| 143906 | December 22 | Birth | 1948 – Don Kardong, American runner, journalist, and author |
| 143907 | December 22 | Birth | 1948 – Flip Mark, American actor |
| 143908 | December 22 | Birth | 1948 – Rick Nielsen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cheap Trick, Fuse, and Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters) |
| 143909 | December 22 | Birth | 1948 – Chris Old, English cricketer |
| 143910 | December 22 | Birth | 1948 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (d. 2003) |