Willa Cather (born December 7, 1873) US novelist
Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) U.S. linguist, philosopher
Dom Joseph Pothier (born December 7, 1835) French monk (Benedictine), Gregorian chant scholar, composer – Les mélodies grégoriennes: d’après la tradition (French Edition) / Traditional Gregorian Melodies (1880)
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi [عبدالرحمن صوفی] (born December 7, 903) Persian astronomer – Book of Fixed Stars