| 146791 | December 30 | Birth | 1906 – Carol Reed, English director and producer (d. 1976) |
| 146792 | December 30 | Birth | 1910 – Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999) |
| 146793 | December 30 | Birth | 1911 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 146794 | December 30 | Birth | 1913 – Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996) |
| 146795 | December 30 | Birth | 1913 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002) |
| 146796 | December 30 | Birth | 1914 – Bert Parks, American actor and singer (d. 1992) |
| 146797 | December 30 | Birth | 1914 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 146798 | December 30 | Birth | 1917 – Seymour Melman, American engineer and author (d. 2004) |
| 146799 | December 30 | Birth | 1919 – David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 2015) |
| 146800 | December 30 | Birth | 1920 – Jack Lord, American actor and director (d. 1998) |
| 146801 | December 30 | Birth | 1921 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1987) |
| 146802 | December 30 | Birth | 1922 – Jane Langton, American author and illustrator |
| 146803 | December 30 | Birth | 1923 – Prakash Vir Shastri, Indian politician (d. 1977) |
| 146804 | December 30 | Birth | 1925 – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, producer and director (d. 2002) |
| 146805 | December 30 | Birth | 1926 – Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (d. 2013) |
| 146806 | December 30 | Birth | 1927 – Bernard Barrow, American actor and educator (d. 1993) |
| 146807 | December 30 | Birth | 1927 – Robert Hossein, French actor, director, and screenwriter |
| 146808 | December 30 | Birth | 1928 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008) |
| 146809 | December 30 | Birth | 1929 – Rosalinde Hurley, English physician, microbiologist, and academic (d. 2004) |
| 146810 | December 30 | Birth | 1929 – Barbara Nichols, American actress and singer (d. 1976) |
| 146811 | December 30 | Birth | 1930 – Roy Yorke Calne, English surgeon and academic |
| 146812 | December 30 | Birth | 1930 – Red Rhodes, American guitarist |
| 146813 | December 30 | Birth | 1930 – Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 146814 | December 30 | Birth | 1931 – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (The Davis Sisters) (d. 2004) |
| 146815 | December 30 | Birth | 1931 – John T. Houghton, Welsh physicist and author |
| 146816 | December 30 | Birth | 1931 – Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014) |
| 146817 | December 30 | Birth | 1934 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and astronomer, co-developed the Hubble Space Telescope (d. 2005) |
| 146818 | December 30 | Birth | 1934 – Joseph Bologna, American actor, director, and screenwriter |
| 146819 | December 30 | Birth | 1934 – Barry Briggs, New Zealand motorcycle racer and sportscaster |
| 146820 | December 30 | Birth | 1934 – Joseph P. Hoar, American general |