| 147211 | December 31 | Birth | 1919 – Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Puerto Rican-American soldier |
| 147212 | December 31 | Birth | 1919 – Fritz Schwab, Swiss race walker (d. 2006) |
| 147213 | December 31 | Birth | 1919 – G. Wood, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 147214 | December 31 | Birth | 1920 – Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999) |
| 147215 | December 31 | Birth | 1922 – Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (d. 2014) |
| 147216 | December 31 | Birth | 1922 – Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Polish pianist (d. 2001) |
| 147217 | December 31 | Birth | 1922 – Luis Zuloaga, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2013) |
| 147218 | December 31 | Birth | 1923 – Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010) |
| 147219 | December 31 | Birth | 1924 – Taylor Mead, American actor and poet (d. 2013) |
| 147220 | December 31 | Birth | 1925 – Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (d. 2013) |
| 147221 | December 31 | Birth | 1925 – Sri Lal Sukla, Indian author (d. 2011) |
| 147222 | December 31 | Birth | 1926 – Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic |
| 147223 | December 31 | Birth | 1926 – Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia (d. 1987) |
| 147224 | December 31 | Birth | 1928 – Siné, French singer and cartoonist |
| 147225 | December 31 | Birth | 1928 – Tatyana Shmyga, Russian actress and singer (d. 2011) |
| 147226 | December 31 | Birth | 1929 – Mies Bouwman, Dutch television host |
| 147227 | December 31 | Birth | 1930 – Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (d. 2008) |
| 147228 | December 31 | Birth | 1930 – Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (d. 2010) |
| 147229 | December 31 | Birth | 1931 – Ray Graves, American football player and coach (d. 2015) |
| 147230 | December 31 | Birth | 1931 – Bob Shaw, Northern Irish journalist and author (d. 1996) |
| 147231 | December 31 | Birth | 1932 – Don James, American football player and coach (d. 2013) |
| 147232 | December 31 | Birth | 1932 – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist, editor and author (d. 1992) |
| 147233 | December 31 | Birth | 1933 – Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005) |
| 147234 | December 31 | Birth | 1934 – Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian scholar, author, and poet |
| 147235 | December 31 | Birth | 1935 – Salman of Saudi Arabia |
| 147236 | December 31 | Birth | 1936 – Noel Jan Tyl, American astrologer and author |
| 147237 | December 31 | Birth | 1937 – Avram Hershko, Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 147238 | December 31 | Birth | 1937 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh-American actor, director, and composer |
| 147239 | December 31 | Birth | 1937 – Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager |
| 147240 | December 31 | Birth | 1937 – Tess Jaray, Austrian-English painter |