Athletes and Sports Stars Born in December 1949

Tom Kite (74 years old)

Dec 9 American golfer (US Open 1992; 19 PGA Tour titles, The Tradition 2000), born in McKinney, Texas

Dec 11 Noel Campbell, Irish soccer midfielder (11 caps; St Patrick's Athletic FC, SC Fortuna Köln, Shamrock Rovers FC), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2022)
Dec 12 Ricardo Luis Carreras, American bantamweight boxer (Olympic bronze 1972), born in New York City
Dec 13 Nana Alexandria, Georgian International Woman's Chess Grandmaster (1976), born in Poti, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Dec 14 Bill Buckner, American MLB 1st baseman (1986 World Series infamous fielding error; NL batting champ 1980), born in Vallejo, California (d. 2019)
Dec 17 Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
Dec 19 Christian Dalger, French soccer forward (6 caps; SC Toulon, AS Monaco FC) and manager (SC Toulon, Grenoble, Mali), born in Nîmes, France (d. 2023)
Dec 19 Claudia Kolb, American swimmer (Olympic gold 200/400m medley 1968; silver 200m breaststroke 1964), born in Hayward, California
Dec 20 Cecil Cooper, American baseball player, born in Brenham, Texas
Dec 23 Wally Edwards, Australian cricket batsman (3 Tests; West Australia CA), born in Perth, Australia
Dec 24 Warwick Brown, Australian racing driver, born in Sydney, Australia
Dec 25 Serhiy Novikov, Russian judoka (Olympic gold heavyweight 1976), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2021)
Dec 28 Gheorghe Berceanu, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler (Olympic gold light-flyweight 1972, silver 1976; World C'ship gold 1969, 72), born in Cârna, Romania (d. 2022)
Dec 29 Syed Kirmani, Indian cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), born in Chennai, India
Dec 30 Bruce Davidson, equestrian 3-day (Olympic silver 1996)