| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Robert Aldrich |
Film Director |
9-Aug-1918 |
5-Dec-1983 |
The Dirty Dozen |
| Roone Arledge |
Sports Figure |
8-Jul-1931 |
5-Dec-2002 |
Created Wide World of Sports |
| Rudolf Bahro |
Philosopher |
18-Nov-1935 |
5-Dec-1997 |
The Alternative in Eastern Europe |
| Charles Barton |
Film Director |
25-May-1902 |
5-Dec-1981 |
Africa Screams |
| Gaspard Bauhin |
Botanist |
17-Jan-1560 |
5-Dec-1624 |
Pinax Theatri Botanici |
| George S. Brown |
Military |
17-Aug-1918 |
5-Dec-1978 |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1974-78 |
| David K. E. Bruce |
Diplomat |
12-Feb-1898 |
5-Dec-1977 |
US Ambassador to England, France, Germany |
| Fred Clark |
Actor |
19-Mar-1914 |
5-Dec-1968 |
A Place in the Sun |
| Carlo Denina |
Historian |
1731 |
5-Dec-1813 |
Delle revoluzioni d'Italia |
| Alexandre Dumas père |
Novelist |
24-Jul-1802 |
5-Dec-1870 |
The Three Musketeers |
| Joseph Erlanger |
Scientist |
5-Jan-1874 |
5-Dec-1965 |
Nerve conduction |
| Nina Foch |
Actor |
20-Apr-1924 |
5-Dec-2008 |
Executive Suite |
| Francis II |
Royalty |
19-Jan-1544 |
5-Dec-1560 |
King of France 1559-60 |
| Beverly Garland |
Actor |
17-Oct-1926 |
5-Dec-2008 |
Dotty West on Scarecrow and Mrs. King |
| Albert Gore, Sr. |
Politician |
26-Dec-1907 |
5-Dec-1998 |
US Senator from Tennessee, 1953-71 |
| Paul Harvey |
Actor |
10-Sep-1882 |
5-Dec-1955 |
American character actor |
| Shoeless Joe Jackson |
Baseball |
16-Jul-1889 |
5-Dec-1951 |
Say it ain't so, Joe |
| Otto Lambsdorff |
Politician |
20-Dec-1926 |
5-Dec-2009 |
German Economic Minister, 1977-84 |
| Herbert H. Lehman |
Politician |
28-Mar-1878 |
5-Dec-1963 |
Governor of New York, 1933-42 |
| John Leslie |
Pornstar |
25-Jan-1945 |
5-Dec-2010 |
Talk Dirty To Me |
| Vachel Lindsay |
Poet |
10-Nov-1879 |
5-Dec-1931 |
The Congo and Other Poems |
| Glenn L. Martin |
Engineer |
17-Jan-1886 |
5-Dec-1955 |
Martin Aircraft Co. |
| Don Meredith |
Football |
10-Apr-1938 |
5-Dec-2010 |
Dallas Cowboys, Monday Night Foorball |
| Claude Monet |
Painter |
14-Nov-1840 |
5-Dec-1926 |
The Water Lilies |
| Garfield Morgan |
Actor |
19-Apr-1931 |
5-Dec-2009 |
Chief Haskins on The Sweeney |
| John E. Moss |
Politician |
13-Apr-1915 |
5-Dec-1997 |
Congressman from California, 1953-78 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Composer |
27-Jan-1756 |
5-Dec-1791 |
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik |
| Pedro II |
Royalty |
2-Dec-1825 |
5-Dec-1891 |
Emperor of Brazil, 1831-89 |
| Leyla Qasim |
Activist |
1952 |
5-Dec-1974 |
Kurdish martyr |
| Wladyslaw Reymont |
Author |
7-May-1867 |
5-Dec-1925 |
The Peasants |
| Jack Rose |
Guitarist |
16-Feb-1971 |
5-Dec-2009 |
Pelt |
| Charles G. Ross |
Government |
9-Nov-1885 |
5-Dec-1950 |
White House Press Secretary for Truman |
| Lesley Selander |
Film Director |
26-May-1900 |
5-Dec-1979 |
The Texican |
| Richard Speck |
Criminal |
6-Dec-1941 |
5-Dec-1991 |
Killed eight student nurses |
| James Stirling |
Mathematician |
1692 |
5-Dec-1770 |
Methodus differentialis |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen |
Composer |
22-Aug-1928 |
5-Dec-2007 |
Influential avant-garde composer |
| Sir Henry Tate |
Philanthropist |
1819 |
5-Dec-1899 |
Bequeathed the Tate Gallery |
| Robert C. Turner |
Economist |
2-Mar-1908 |
5-Dec-1978 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1952-53 |
| Robert Watson-Watt |
Physicist |
13-Apr-1892 |
5-Dec-1973 |
Radar |
| Roy Welensky |
Head of State |
20-Jan-1907 |
5-Dec-1991 |
Rhodesian Prime Minister, 1956-63 |
| Phillis Wheatley |
Poet |
c. 1743 |
5-Dec-1784 |
First prominent African-American poet |
| Herbert S. Zim |
Author |
12-Jul-1909 |
5-Dec-1994 |
Golden Guides |
