page_title: 1944 in the United States
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 in the United States / Births / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Cropped 1971 promotional photo of Dennis Wilson for "Two-Lane Blacktop".
context_page_description: Events from the year 1944 in the United States.
context_section_description: December 1 – John Densmore, drummer, member of The Doors.
  December 2 – Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress (That's Incredible!)
  December 4 – Dennis Wilson, American drummer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983)
  December 6
  Kit Culkin, American stage actor
  Ron Kenoly, American Christian leader
  December 7 – Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
  December 9 – Ki Longfellow, American novelist
  December 11
  Teri Garr, American actress
  Lynda Day George, American actress
  Brenda Lee, American singer
  December 19 – Tim Reid, African-American actor and film director
  December 21 – Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
  December 22 – Steve Carlton, American baseball player
  December 23 – Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
  December 26 – Bill Ayers, American education theorist and former radical anti-war activist
  December 28
  Johnny Isakson, American politician
  Kary Mullis, American biochemist (d. 2019)
  December 30 – Joseph Hilbe, American statistician and author
caption: Dennis Wilson
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