* December 12-Paul Martin is sworn in as Canada's 21st Prime Minister

Joseph Elmer Yoakum ( February 22, 1889 – December 25, 1972 ) was a self-taught landscape artist of African-American and Native American descent, who drew landscapes in a highly individual style.

* December 12 – Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist ( d. 1937 )

Also popular was Zaner-Bloser Script, introduced by Charles Paxton Zaner ( 15 February 1864 – 1 December 1918 ) and Elmer Ward Bloser ( 6 November 1865 – 1929 ) of the Zanerian Business College.

* 16 Elmer Lach ( C ) December 4, 2009

Robert Edward Brookmeyer was born on December 19, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri, the only child of Elmer Edward Brookmeyer and the former Mayme Seifert.

Dean Arnold Corll ( December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973 ) was an American serial killer, also known as the " Candy Man " and the " Pied Piper " who, together with two youthful accomplices named David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, raped, tortured and murdered a minimum of 28 boys in a series of killings spanning from 1970 to 1973 in Houston, Texas.

Paul Elmer More ( December 12, 1864 – March 9, 1937 ) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologist.

On December 4, 2009, as part of a 85 minute pre-game ceremony celebrating the Canadiens ' 100th anniversary, Bouchard's No. 3 and Elmer Lach's No. 16 were retired.

McIntyre will co-host with Terri-Rae Elmer, who left KFI in December 2011 where she was the in-studio news anchor during the John and Ken Show.

Elmer Valentine ( June 16, 1923 – December 3, 2008 ) was the co-founder of two famous nightclubs on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California: the Whisky a Go Go and The Roxy Theatre.

Elmer Joseph " Doc " Hamann ( December 21, 1900 – January 11, 1973 ) was a Major League Baseball player.

* Albrecht, Theodore, and Elaine Schwensen, " More Than Just Peanuts: Evidence for December 16 as Beethoven's birthday ".

( More colorful versions have circulated in the folklore, suggesting, for example, that December 31, 1840 was the exact date of the first entry in the MGH records, but these seem to be urban legends.

More than 100, 000 workers were removed from " unsuitable " jobs and conscripted by the Ministry of Labour ; by December 1941, Czechs could be called to work anywhere within the Reich.

Between September and December 1980, the Undertones performed two further tours: the ' Disaster Tour ( European Style )', which saw the band perform in continental Europe and — in December — the ' See No More ' tour of the UK.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

* December 16 – Laura More ( Muncey ), British singer

The Dollars trilogy was not released in the United States until 1967, when A Fistful of Dollars opened in January, followed by For a Few Dollars More in May, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on December 29.

On December 19, 2006, " More Silly Symphonies " was released, completing the collection and allowing the cartoons to be completely available to the public.

More recently Marion has begun " Christmas on the Square " in early December co-sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club and the Marion Chamber of Commerce.

That same year, Faith No More gave memorable performances at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards ( September 6 ) and on the 293rd episode of Saturday Night Live ( December 1 ).

However, Faith No More later confirmed one more date as their final Reunion Tour Performance on December the 5th at Bicentenario de la Florida Stadium in Santiago, Chile.

More recently the temperature fell to-10. 8c ( 12. 6f ) on 20 December 2010.

* " More Power to Canberra ", The Age, 11 December 1986.

More arrests followed in November and December.

More than 15, 000 inhabitants attended the funeral on 9 December 1964, about 5 % of the whole population then.

More product lines became available with the Quicklon ( sometimes called Cosmolon ) fasteners in December 1981. International and product expansion continued durig the 1980s, with a real estate business in Singapore in December 1984, an agricultural business in Brazil in January 1985, and a plant in Indonesia in September 1986 producing zippers and aluminium parts for buildings.

More recently they have occasionally carried regional broadcasts in the event of conflicts with other Sportsnet programming ( Sportsnet West being the regional rightsholder to both the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames ), most recently in December 2009.

* The Count was interviewed in character on the BBC Radio 4 economics programme More or Less on December 11, 2009, where he mentioned his favorite number, 34969.

More than 70 % of the rain falls from December through March, while the summer brings much drier conditions.

More important than the five composed speeches from the later sources, which tend to be colored by the authors ' own views of crusading, is a letter that was written by Urban himself in December of 1095 referring to the council.

* Oprah Winfrey presents For One More Day which aired on ABC in December 2007

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

The New York Times did not review the film upon release, but film critic Howard Thompson gave it a positive review on a re-release at a children's matinee with the Bugs Bunny short, Napoleon Bunny-Part, in December 1970.

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

Mad poked fun at the tendency of readers to accuse the magazine of declining in quality at various points in its history, depending on the age of the critic, in its " Untold History of Mad Magazine ," a self-referential faux history in the 400th issue which joked: " The second issue of Mad goes on sale on December 9, 1952.

By that December, the term was in circulation to the extent that The New Yorkers Ellen Willis, contrasting her own tastes with those of Flash and fellow critic Nick Tosches, wrote, " Punk-rock has become the favored term of endearment.

Peter Guralnick ( born December 15, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts ) is an American music critic, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter.

* December 6 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic ( d. 1983 )

* December 13 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic ( b. 1812 )

* December 23 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic ( d. 1869 )

* December 26 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist ( b. 1713 )

* December 4 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist ( d. 1786 )

* December 24 – William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester ( d. 1779 )

William Melvin " Bill " Hicks ( December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994 ) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician.

Le Pen has been a vocal critic of the European Reform Treaty ( formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon ) which was signed by EU member states on 13 December 2007, and entered into force on 1 December 2009.

* Ian Watt ( 9 March 1917 – 13 December 1999 ), literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University

He was a vocal critic of the government's actions in the Suez Crisis, noticeably delivering high profile speeches in Trafalgar Square on 4 November 1956 at a protest rally, and devastating the government's actions and arguments in the House of Commons on 5 December 1956.

When the work was performed at the Théâtre de l ' Athénée on 13 December 1867 it was a great success, and the Revue et Gazette Musicale's critic lavished particular praise on Bizet's act: " Nothing could be more stylish, smarter and, at the same time, more distinguished ".

* Paul Bourget ( 2 September 1852 – 25 December 1935 ), novelist and critic

Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais née Gray, known as Effie Gray, Effie Ruskin or Effie Millais ( 1828 – 23 December 1897 ) was the wife of the critic John Ruskin, but left her husband without the marriage being consummated, and after the annulment of the marriage, married his protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.

Nicolas Slonimsky ( – December 25, 1995 ) was a Russian born American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author.

Messiah remains Handel's best-known work, with performances particularly popular during the Christmas season ; writing in December 1993, the music critic Alex Ross refers to that month's 21 performances in New York alone as " numbing repetition ".

John Pym ( 1584 – 8 December 1643 ) was an English parliamentarian, leader of the Long Parliament and a prominent critic of James I and then Charles I.

Yao Wenyuan ( pinyin: Yáo Wényuán ; IPA: ; 1931, Zhuji, Shaoxing, Zhejiang – December 23, 2005, Shanghai ) was a Chinese literary critic, a politician, and a member of the " Gang of Four " during China's Cultural Revolution.