* December 24-William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist

* December 24-William Warburton, English critic ( died 1779 )

* December 24-William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.

* December 24-William Hayward Pickering ( died 2004 ), head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

* December 24-William Van Steenburgh, scientist

* December 24-William John Macquorn Rankine ( born 1820 ), physicist.

* November 24-William Lyon Mackenzie delivers order to local leaders to march on Toronto December 7.

* 2007 John Duncan Edwards ( Final president of Gate as an all-male house, evicted on December 18 by the Dean of Students )

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

In December 1967, Jan and Dean signed an agreement with Warner Bros. Records.

* December 2 – Dean Alfange, American politician ( d. 1989 )

* December 27 – Priscilla Dean, American actress ( b. 1896 )

Excerpts from La coupe du roi de Thulé, edited by Winton Dean, were broadcast by the BBC on 12 July 1955, and Le docteur Miracle was revived in London on 8 December 1957 by the Park Lane Group.

In an interview with Colorado Springs Independent reporter Pam Zubeck on 16 December 2010, Dean of Faculty, Brigadier General Dana Born stated that " All the instructors we have, have graduate degrees in the areas they're teaching or a related field.

David Dean Rusk ( February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994 ) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

In December 2011, Dean DeLeo told Rolling Stone, " what I'd like to see happen is the band go out and do more intimate shows – really lovely theaters around the country.

the Mayor of Haworth is John Dean DeRienzo ( D, term ends December 31, 2014 ).

Dean Martin ( born Dino Paul Crocetti ; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995 ) was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian.

For the week ending December 23, 2006, the Dean Martin and Martina McBride duet of " Baby, It's Cold Outside " reached # 7 on the R & R AC chart.

* Tacita Dean elected 9 December, 2008

Eric Hilliard Nelson ( May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985 ), better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor, starring alongside his family in the long-running television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ( 1952-1966 ), as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks ' Western feature film Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

* December 9: Former Vice President Al Gore endorses Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean for President.

* Dean Martin died at home on Christmas morning, December 25, 1995, aged 78.

with Will Rogers, Jr., which lasted 14 months before being replaced from April – December 1957 by The Morning Show, a variety program hosted by Jimmy Dean.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley ( 13 December 1815 – 18 July 1881 ) was an English churchman, Dean of Westminster, known as Dean Stanley.

* The Dean Martin Show as himself " Celebrity Roast: Carroll O ' Connor " 7 December 1973

Richard William Church ( 25 April 1815 – 6 December 1890 ) was an English churchman and writer, known latterly as Dean Church.

Gordon Evans Dean ( December 28, 1905-August 15, 1958 ) was a Seattle-born American lawyer and prosecutor who served as chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) from 1950 to 1953.

On 18 December 2009, Howells announced that he would stand down at the 2010 general election.

In September 2001, Clive Jones rejoined Pontypridd as Director of Rugby, and had, by December 2001, brought Lynn Howells back from Cardiff, who then proceeded to marshal the club to become Principality Cup winners in May 2002 and guided the team to the final of the Parker Pen European Shield days later.

* December 18 President Woodrow Wilson marries Mrs Edith B Galt in Washington

* December 7 – Princess Louise Henriette ( 19 ) marries Frederick William of Brandenburg.

* December 26 – The Earl of Somerset marries Frances Howard, occasioning John Donne's Eclogue.

* December 6 – In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his second wife ( of four ), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, near Groton, Suffolk.

* December – In the Middle East, traveller Pietro Della Valle marries Jowaya, daughter of a Nestorian Christian father and an Armenian mother, in Baghdad.

* December 13 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais marries Joséphine Tascher.

* December 26 – King Alexander III of Scotland marries Margaret, daughter of King Henry III of England, precipitating a power struggle between the two monarchs.

* December 6 – King Charles VIII of France marries Anne of Brittany, forcing her to break her marriage with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, thus incorporating Brittany into the kingdom of France.

* December 24-Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter at St Mary's Church, Carlisle, and the couple immediately move into their new home at 50 George Street, Edinburgh.

* December 1-John Dryden marries Elizabeth, sister of Sir Robert Howard ; Dryden and John Aubrey become Fellows of the Royal Society in the same year.

Screened on the UK television station ITV1 in December 2005, McCutcheon appeared in The English Harem, playing a woman in love with a Muslim man ( Art Malik ), who marries him despite knowing he already has two wives.

She made a brief return to the soap opera when her television mother ( Erica ) marries in May 2005, and returned for an extended stay from December 16, 2005 to January 10, 2006.

She marries Alf, in an episode on 23 December 1985, later enjoying the social status of mayoress and believing herself to be better than the other Street residents.

Grant marries Sharon in December 1991 and together they run The Queen Victoria.