| 139411 | December 10 | Birth | 1891 – Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) |
| 139412 | December 10 | Birth | 1896 – Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (d. 1948) |
| 139413 | December 10 | Birth | 1903 – Una Merkel, American actress and singer (d. 1986) |
| 139414 | December 10 | Birth | 1905 – Valter Palm, Estonian-American boxer (d. 1994) |
| 139415 | December 10 | Birth | 1906 – Jules Ladoumègue, French runner (d. 1973) |
| 139416 | December 10 | Birth | 1907 – Rumer Godden, English author and poet (d. 1998) |
| 139417 | December 10 | Birth | 1907 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach (d. 2005) |
| 139418 | December 10 | Birth | 1908 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992) |
| 139419 | December 10 | Birth | 1909 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1990) |
| 139420 | December 10 | Birth | 1910 – Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player, baseball player and politician (d. 1996) |
| 139421 | December 10 | Birth | 1911 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974) |
| 139422 | December 10 | Birth | 1912 – Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1976) |
| 139423 | December 10 | Birth | 1913 – Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American composer (d. 1988) |
| 139424 | December 10 | Birth | 1913 – Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1996) |
| 139425 | December 10 | Birth | 1913 – Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987) |
| 139426 | December 10 | Birth | 1914 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (d. 1996) |
| 139427 | December 10 | Birth | 1915 – Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player and fighter pilot (d. 2006) |
| 139428 | December 10 | Birth | 1916 – Walt Arfons, American race car driver (d. 2013) |
| 139429 | December 10 | Birth | 1916 – Rafael Ruiz, Spanish field hockey player (d. 2006) |
| 139430 | December 10 | Birth | 1917 – Yahya Petra of Kelantan (d. 1979) |
| 139431 | December 10 | Birth | 1918 – Anne Gwynne, American actress and singer (d. 2003) |
| 139432 | December 10 | Birth | 1918 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995) |
| 139433 | December 10 | Birth | 1919 – Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (d. 2008) |
| 139434 | December 10 | Birth | 1920 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1977) |
| 139435 | December 10 | Birth | 1920 – Reginald Rose, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2002) |
| 139436 | December 10 | Birth | 1920 – Thanassis Skordalos, Greek lyra player and composer (d. 1998) |
| 139437 | December 10 | Birth | 1922 – Lucía Hiriart, Chilean wife of Augusto Pinochet, 30th First Lady of Chile |
| 139438 | December 10 | Birth | 1923 – Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 139439 | December 10 | Birth | 1923 – Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel (d. 2013) |
| 139440 | December 10 | Birth | 1924 – Michael Manley, Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997) |