Here’s a list of authors and illustrators as well as a few famous people with birthdays in December. You can find more famost people at http://holidayinsights.com/bday/ or the birthday calendar from Perma Bound.
1 Jan Brett, author
2 David Macaulay, author
3 Barbara Brooks Wallace, author
4 Munro Leaf, author
5 Jim Kjelgaard, author
5 Harve Zemach, author
5 Walt Disney
5 Martin Van Buren, president
5 General Custer
6 Cornelia Meigs, author
8 Eli Whitney, inventor
9 Grace Hopper, computer scientist
9 Joan W. Blos, author
9 Jean de Brunhoff, author
10 Emily Dickinson, author
10 Mary Norton, author
10 Ada Lovelace, mathematician
10 Melvil Dewey, librarian
11 William Joyce, author
12 Barbara Emberley, author
13 Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady
14 James Doolittle, World War II aviator
15 Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer
15 Ann Nolan Clark, author
18 Ty Cobb, MLB baseball player
19 Eve Bunting, author
19 Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer
20 Richard Atwater, author
20 Sandra Cisneros, author
20 Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer
22 Jerry Pinkney, author
22 Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady
23 Avi, author
24 James Prescott Joule, physicist
24 Mary Higgins Clark, author
25 Sir Isaac Newton, scientist
25 Pam Munoz Ryan, author
25 Eth Clifford, author
25 Clara Barton, nurse
27 Ingri D’Aulaire, author
27 Johannes Kepler, astronomer
27 Louis Pasteur, chemist
28 Carol Ryrie Brink, author
28 Woodrow Wilson, President
29 Andrew Johnson, President
29 Molly Bang, author
30 Rudyard Kipling, author
30 Mercer Mayer, author
31 Cynthia Leitich Smith, author
31 Henri Matisse, painter
Who will you celebrate?