Famous Birthdays
- Dec 5 Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist and ornithologist, born in New York City (d. 1942)
- Dec 10 Henry Nicholas Ridley, British botanist (Malay Peninsula rubber industry), born in West Harling, Norfolk, England (d. 1956)
- Dec 11 Julian Edwards, American composer, born in Manchester, England (d. 1910)
- Dec 23 Alan Gray, British composer (Trinity College), born in York, England (d. 1935)
- Dec 26 Arnold Mendelssohn, German composer, born in Ratibor, Province of Silesia (now Poland) (d. 1933)
- Dec 27 Paul Ehrenreich, German ethnologist and mythologist, born in Berlin (d. 1914)
- Dec 30 Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity), born in Wesel, Westphalia (d. 1906)
- Dec 31 Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist & poet, born in San Mauro Pascoli, Italy (d. 1912)
