BlogDecember 5, 1934 – Billy Paul (born Paul Williams) is a Grammy Award winning American soul singer, most known for his 1972 number-one single, “Me and Mrs. Jones”.
December 6, 1993 – Elián González whose custody and immigration status was at the center of a heated controversy in 2000 involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father, Juan Miguel González Quintana, his Miami and Cuban relatives, and the Cuban-American community of Miami.
December 7, 1888 – Joyce Cary (born Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and artist.
December 8, 1943 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
December 9, 1909 – Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr. KBE was an American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.
December 10, 1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
December 11, 1883 – Edmund De Wind, VC was a British Army officer during the First World War, and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award of the British Commonwealth for gallantry “in the face of the enemy”.
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