Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy.

On December 10, 1810 he married the socially prominent Countess Marie von Brühl and socialized with Berlin's literary and intellectual elite.

After three months of intense work, he predicted a position for Ceres in December 1801 — just about a year after its first sighting — and this turned out to be accurate within a half-degree when it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on 31 December at Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").

Their change of heart occurred after General Kurt von Schleicher ousted von Papen in December 1932.

Caspar ( or Kaspar ) Schwen ( c ) kfeld von Ossig ( 1489 or 1490 – 10 December 1561, Ulm ) was a German theologian, writer, and preacher who became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist, one of the earliest promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Silesia.

Nicolaus von Amsdorf ( 3 December 1483 – 14 May 1565 ) was a German theologian and Protestant reformer.

* from 1938 to 19 December 1941, Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch

Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich ( December 11, 1806 – July 1, 1886 ) was a German mineralogist and geologist.

Pope Clement II ( born Suidger von Morsleben ; died October 1047 ), was Pope from 25 December 1046 until his death.

Contrary to von Moll's report, the fossil was not missing ; it was being studied by Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, who gave a public lecture about it on 27 December 1810.

* Die Fraumetta Catharina von Flensburg, a 53 ton brigantine, sank near Drake's Island in December 1786.

In December 1930 he attended a rowing club ball and met Lina von Osten.

But he kept the engagement and married von Osten in December 1931.

On 28 December 1233, the Teutonic Knights Hermann von Salza and Hermann Balk signed the foundation charters for Thorn and Chełmno.

* December 20 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman ( d. 1692 )

* December 22 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian film director ( b. 1894 )

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

* December 31 – Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer

Heschel married Sylvia Straus, a concert pianist, on December 10, 1946, in Los Angeles.

David Warren " Dave " Brubeck ( born December 6, 1920 ) is an American jazz pianist.

Franz Schmidt ( 22 December 187411 February 1939 ) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.

Gerard Hengeveld ( 7 December 1910, Kampen-October 28, 2001, Bergen, North Holland ) was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist.

Showings of silent films almost always featured live music, starting with the pianist at the first public projection of movies by the Lumière Brothers on December 28, 1895 in Paris.

* December 23 – Alison Sudol, American singer / songwriter and pianist known professionally as A Fine Frenzy

* December 5 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and memoirist ( d. 2000 )

* December 15 – Fats Waller, African-American jazz pianist ( Ain't Misbehavin ) ( b. 1904 )

* December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor ( d. 1972 )

* December 2 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist ( d. 1967 )

* December 20 – Artur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor ( b. 1887 )

* December 13 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist ( d. 1944 )

* December 22 – Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist and composer ( b. 1788 )

* December 13 – Amy Lee, American pianist / singer / songwriter ( Evanescence )

* December 18 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist ( b. 1829 )

* December 2 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist ( d. 2002 )

* December 19 – Jose Ignacio Quinton, Puerto Rican composer and pianist ( b. 1881 )

* December 19 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist ( d. 1974 )

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921 ) was a French late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist.

Fats Waller ( May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943 ), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH ( 22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 ) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist ; and one of the central figures of twentieth-century British classical music.

Alan Dudley Bush ( 22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995 ) was a British composer and pianist.

Willing to record artists that most other labels would consider to be uncommercial, in December 1943 the label initiated more sessions with artists such as pianist Art Hodes, trumpeter Sidney DeParis, clarinetist Edmond Hall, and Harlem stride pianist James P. Johnson, who was returning to a high degree of musical activity after having largely recovered from a stroke suffered in 1940.

Matt Slocum ( born 27 December 1972 ) is a guitarist, cellist, pianist and composer, known for his work as the principal songwriter and lead guitarist of Sixpence None the Richer.