* December 13-George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72

In December 2004, the new coalition government ( PD, PNL, PUR Romanian Humanist Party-which eventually changed its name to Romanian Conservative Party and UDMR ), was sworn in under Prime Minister Tăriceanu.

Solomon Schechter ( Hebrew: שניאור זלמן שכטר ; December 7, 1847 – November, 19 1915 ) was a Moldavian-born Romanian rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement.

* December 12 – Iolanda Balaş, Romanian high-jumper

* December 31 – Ion Creangă, Romanian writer ( b. 1837 or 1839 )

* December 9 – Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de facto leader of Romania.

* December 22 – Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer

* December 12 – Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress

* December 19 – Workers in Romanian cities go on strike in protest against the communist regime.

* December 21 – Nicolae Ceausescu addresses an assembly of some 110, 000 people outside the Romanian Communist Party HQ in Bucharest.

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 began with mass anti-Ceaușescu protests in Timișoara in December 1989 and continued in Bucharest, leading to the overthrow of the Communist regime.

In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, three of the leaders of the National Patriotic Front, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgar, Gheorghe Ghimpu and Valeriu Graur, as well as a fourth person, Alexandru Soltoianu, the leader of a similar clandestine movement in northern Bukovina ( Bucovina ), were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.

Nicolae Ceaușescu (; 26 January 1918 – 25 December 1989 ) was a Romanian Communist politician.

In December 1989, Timișoara witnessed a series of mass street protests by Romanians, Hungarians and Serbs, in what was to become the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

In December 2008 he joined the board of Phorm, an online behaviourial advertising company, and he is a non-executive director of Balli Group PLC and the Honorary President of the British Romanian Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the British Iranian Chamber of Commerce.

* December 2-the Romanian literary review Sămănătorul is founded.

* The supplement dedicated to Iliescu ( in Romanian ), published by Academia Cațavencu, 22 December 2004

According to NKVD orders, tens of thousands of Romanian families were deported to Siberia during this period, with 12, 191 people deported on 2 August 1940 ( less than a month after the occupation ), and another 2, 057 persons deported to Siberia in December 1940, together with their families.

No provisions were made in case of a ( officially declared ) Romanian intervention or an Ottoman counterattack, strangely assuming that Russia would assure that no attack would come from those directions, even though on 9 June Russia had angrily repudiated its Bulgarian alliance and shifted its diplomacy towards Romania ( Russia already had named Romania's King Carol an honorary Russian Field Marshal, as a clear warning in shifting its policy towards Sofia in December 1912 ).

In December 2004, the new coalition government ( PD, PNL, PUR ( Romanian Humanist Party ) and UDMR ) under prime minister Tăriceanu was sworn in.

Pro TV () is a Romanian TV station launched in December 1995 that reaches almost 99 % of Romania ’ s 21. 5 million people and has 48 % of its broadcast schedule comprising locally-produced programs.

Romanian president Nicolae Ceauşescu was stripped of his honorary GCB by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 December 1989, the day before his execution.

Dinu Lipatti (; 2 December 1950 ) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33.

On 30-31 December 1881, following the impact of Zionism on the Romanian Jewish community, the First Congress of all Zionist Unions in Romania for the promotion of the colonization of Eretz Israel was held at Focşani.

Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935 ) was an Austrian composer.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

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

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

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

An animated holiday special, The Happy Elf, aired on NBC in December 2005, with Connick as the composer, the narrator, and one of the executive producers.

Ira Gershwin ( December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983 ) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

Johann Friedrich Agricola ( 4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774 ) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music.

Carl Friedrich Abel ( 22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787 ) was a German composer of the Classical era.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann ( 2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963 ) was a German composer.

Maximilian Raoul " Max " Steiner ( May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971 ) was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films.

* In December 2010, Stephen Colbert wrote and performed an " extended ending " to ' Send in the Clowns ' to composer Stephen Sondheim when he appeared on Colbert's program, The Colbert Report.

The composer for Tomb Raider remains unannounced On 21 December 2010, a podcast was released via the exclusive Game Informer media coverage.

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

* December 26 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer ( b. 1942 )

* December 29 – Leo Robin, American composer ( b. 1900 )

* December 6 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer ( d. 1703 )

* December 5 – Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.

* December 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer ( b. 1756 )

* December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer ( b. 1940 )

* December 10 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer ( d. 1992 )

* December 23 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer ( b. 1901 )

* December 31 – Raimond Valgre, Estonian composer and musician ( b. 1913 )