Famous people born in December - page 7

Carol Reed

Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed was a British film director who won two ‘Academy Awards’ for Best Director

BritishDecember 30, 1906100 views

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Sheldon Lee Glashow is an American theoretical physicist who received a share of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics

Martin Rodbell

Martin Rodbell was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Basov was a Soviet physicist who won Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics

RussianDecember 14, 1922183 views

Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was a Hungarian American film director best known for the classic ‘Casablanca.’ This biography of Michael Curtiz provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science fiction writer, inventor and futurist who had also served in the Royal Air Force during the World War II

BritishDecember 16, 1917121 views

Manne Siegbahn

Manne Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924

SwedishDecember 3, 1886155 views

Donovan Bailey

Donovan Bailey is a Canadian former sprinter

CanadianDecember 16, 1967193 views

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is a Jamaican-born Canadian former sprinter who gained notoriety following a doping scandal in the late 1980s

CanadianDecember 30, 1961284 views

Thomas Cech

Thomas Robert Cech is an American chemist who was jointly awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Chemistry’ in 1989