| 147181 | December 31 | Birth | 1872 – Fred Marriott, American racing driver (d. 1956) |
| 147182 | December 31 | Birth | 1873 – Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1936) |
| 147183 | December 31 | Birth | 1874 – Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (d. 1937) |
| 147184 | December 31 | Birth | 1877 – Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967) |
| 147185 | December 31 | Birth | 1878 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (d. 1966) |
| 147186 | December 31 | Birth | 1878 – Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1937) |
| 147187 | December 31 | Birth | 1880 – Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (d. 1957) |
| 147188 | December 31 | Birth | 1880 – George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) |
| 147189 | December 31 | Birth | 1881 – Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (d. 1955) |
| 147190 | December 31 | Birth | 1884 – Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (d. 1964) |
| 147191 | December 31 | Birth | 1884 – Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1960) |
| 147192 | December 31 | Birth | 1885 – Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970) |
| 147193 | December 31 | Birth | 1899 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1940) |
| 147194 | December 31 | Birth | 1900 – Ivan Riley, American hurdler (d. 1943) |
| 147195 | December 31 | Birth | 1901 – Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek politician (d. 1954) |
| 147196 | December 31 | Birth | 1902 – Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1982) |
| 147197 | December 31 | Birth | 1904 – William Heynes, English engineer (d. 1989) |
| 147198 | December 31 | Birth | 1905 – Helen Dodson Prince, American astronomer (d. 2002) |
| 147199 | December 31 | Birth | 1905 – Jule Styne, English-American composer (d. 1994) |
| 147200 | December 31 | Birth | 1908 – Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2005) |
| 147201 | December 31 | Birth | 1909 – Jonah Jones, American trumpet player and saxophonist (d. 2000) |
| 147202 | December 31 | Birth | 1910 – Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 147203 | December 31 | Birth | 1911 – Dal Stivens, Australian author (d. 1997) |
| 147204 | December 31 | Birth | 1912 – John Frost, Indian-English general (d. 1993) |
| 147205 | December 31 | Birth | 1914 – Yrjö Nikkanen, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1985) |
| 147206 | December 31 | Birth | 1915 – Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1996) |
| 147207 | December 31 | Birth | 1917 – Evelyn Knight, American singer (d. 2007) |
| 147208 | December 31 | Birth | 1917 – Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962) |
| 147209 | December 31 | Birth | 1918 – Virginia Davis, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 147210 | December 31 | Birth | 1919 – Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, coach, and politician (d. 2007) |