* December 23 – Sara Coleridge, British scholar ( d. 1852 )

Samuel Rogers ( 30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855 ) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron.

He died of a streptococcal infection, erysipelas, contracted from a minor graze on his face sustained after slipping in the street, on 27 December 1834, just a few months after Coleridge.

John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, PC ( 3 December 1820 – 14 June 1894 ) was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician.

Sara Coleridge ( 23 December 1802 – 3 May 1852 ) was an English author and translator.

John Livingston Lowes ( December 20, 1867, Decatur, Indiana – August 15, 1945, Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American scholar of English literature, specializing in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Geoffrey Chaucer.

By sheer chance Fitzroy Kelly and Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Lord Chief Justice of England respectively both died in 1880, allowing the merger of the common law judges under John Coleridge, who had been Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and became Lord Chief Justice of England, by an Order in Council of 16 December 1880.

x London 10 October 1944 Lt .- Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips ( 1909-1980 ), son of Colonel Joseph Harold John Phillips ; xx London December 1992 Lt .- Col. Sir George Arnold Ford Kennard, 3rd Bt., son of Sir Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, 1st Bt.

Frederic ( k ) Michael Coleridge Mackarness ( 31 August 1854 – 23 December 1920 ) born at Tardebigge, Saint Bartholomew, Worcestershire, England was a British barrister, judge and Liberal politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency.

* John Taylor Coleridge ( March 1825 – December 1825.

Eden Phillpotts ( 4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960 ) was an English author, poet and dramatist.

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 ) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

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

Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular.

Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

He was also the great nephew of both George Sandys ( 2 March 1577 – March 1644 ), an English traveller, colonist and poet ; and of Sir Edwin Sandys ( 9 December 1561 – October 1629 ), an English statesman and one of the founders of the London Company.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (; 4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 ), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet.

* December 9 – Edith Sitwell, British poet ( b. 1887 )

* December 8 – John Davies, English poet ( b. 1569 )

* December 30 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet ( d. 1707 )

* December 29 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet ( b. 1594 )

* December 9 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet / author ( d. 1990 )

* December 28 – Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet ( b. 1865 )

* December 23 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet ( d. 1803 )

* December 5 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet ( b. 1879 )

* December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet

* December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet ( b. 1875 )

* December 2 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist ( b. 1911 ).

* December 18 – William McKendree Carleton, American poet ( b. 1845 )

* December 8 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet ( d. 1966 )

* December 15 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet ( d. 1980 )

* December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer ( b. 1864 )

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

John Wycliffe (; also spelt Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe ) ( c. 1320 – 31 December 1384 ) was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England, who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century.

* December 19 – Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author and translator ( d. 1958 )

* December 31 – John Wycliffe, English theologian, Bible translator and Catholic reform campaigner

Patrick O ' Brian, CBE ( 12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000 ), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey – Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish – Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

* December 21-Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet, translator and critic ( died 1997 )

* December 4-Stefan George, poet and translator

Henry Reed ( 22 February 1914 – 8 December 1986 ) was a British poet, translator, radio dramatist and journalist.

* December 6-Henry Cary, author, editor and translator

* December 16-Elizabeth Carter, poet, classicist, writer and translator ( died 1806 )

* December 26-Jan František Beckovský, Czech historian and translator ( born 1658 )

* December 29-Thomas Cooke, first translator of Hesiod into English ( born 1703 )

* December 17-Émilie du Châtelet, French writer and translator ( died 1749 )

* December 16-Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla, Jesuit missionary and translator ( died 1748 )

* December 30-Francisco de Enzinas, classical scholar, translator, author, and Protestant apologist ( born c. 1518 )

Paul Frederic Bowles ( December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999 ) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.

Daniel Poliquin ( born December 18, 1953 ) is a Canadian novelist and translator.

Tian Han (; March 12, 1898 — December 10, 1968 ), born in Changsha, Hunan, was a Chinese drama activist, playwright, a leader of revolutionary music and films, as well as a translator and poet.

Thomas Murner ( 24 December 1475 – c. 1537 ) was a German satirist, poet and translator.

Kenneth Rexroth ( December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982 ) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist.

* December 18 – Daniel Poliquin, novelist and translator

Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac ( December 16, 1865 – December 28, 1918 ) was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator.

Shalva Nutsubidze ( December 14, 1888-January 6, 1969 ) was a Georgian philosopher, translator and public benefactor, one of founders of the Tbilisi State University ( TSU ), founder of Alethology, one of founders of the scientific school in the field of history of Georgian philosophy, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences ( GAS ), Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor.