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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Pope Adrian II
Religion
792 AD 14-Dec-872 AD Roman Catholic Pope, 867-72
Louis Agassiz
Paleontologist
28-May-1807 14-Dec-1873 Ichthyologist at Harvard
Prince Albert
Royalty
26-Aug-1819 14-Dec-1861 Royal Consort of Queen Victoria
Vicente Aleixandre
Poet
26-Apr-1898 14-Dec-1984 Spanish surrealist poet
Roy L. Ash
Business
20-Oct-1918 14-Dec-2011 Director of the OMB, 1973-75
Stanley Baldwin
Head of State
3-Aug-1867 14-Dec-1947 UK Prime Minister three times
William Bendix
Actor
14-Jan-1906 14-Dec-1964 The Life of Riley
Charles III
Royalty
20-Jan-1716 14-Dec-1788 King of Spain, 1759-88
Jeanne Crain
Actor
25-May-1925 14-Dec-2003 20th Century Fox studio actress
Emma Dunn
Actor
26-Feb-1874 14-Dec-1966 The Talk of the Town
Pierre Dupuy
Historian
27-Nov-1582 14-Dec-1651 Historian, Librarian to Louis XIV
Ahmet Ertegün
Business
21-Jul-1923 14-Dec-2006 Atlantic Records co-founder
Mike Evans
Actor
3-Nov-1949 14-Dec-2006 Lionel Jefferson on The Jeffersons
Orval Faubus
Politician
7-Jan-1910 14-Dec-1994 Governor of Arkansas, 1955-67
Norman Fell
Actor
24-Mar-1924 14-Dec-1998 Mr. Roper on Three's Company
Verna Felton
Actor
20-Jul-1890 14-Dec-1966 Hilda Crocker on December Bride
George Gipp
Football
18-Feb-1895 14-Dec-1920 Win one for the Gipper
Julia Grant
First Lady
26-Jan-1826 14-Dec-1902 Wife of US President Ulysses Grant
C. Lowell Harriss
Economist
2-Aug-1912 14-Dec-2009 Columbia University Economist
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Judge
25-Feb-1928 14-Dec-1998 Chief Justice, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Henry B. Jackson
Military
21-Jan-1855 14-Dec-1929 Radio telegraphy
James V
Royalty
10-Apr-1512 14-Dec-1542 King of Scotland, 1513-42
St. John of the Cross
Religion
24-Jun-1542 14-Dec-1591 Spanish mystic, Doctor of the Church
Stubby Kaye
Actor
11-Nov-1918 14-Dec-1997 Guys and Dolls
John Harvey Kellogg
Doctor
26-Feb-1852 14-Dec-1943 Battle Creek Sanitarium
Max Kohl
Business
12-May-1901 14-Dec-1981 Kohl's Department Stores
Walter Lippmann
Journalist
23-Sep-1889 14-Dec-1974 Today and Tomorrow
Myrna Loy
Actor
2-Aug-1905 14-Dec-1993 The Thin Man
Salvador de Madariaga
Author
23-Jul-1886 14-Dec-1978 Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards
Jock Mahoney
Actor
7-Feb-1919 14-Dec-1989 Yancy Derringer
Roger Maris
Baseball
10-Sep-1934 14-Dec-1985 Broke Babe Ruth's home run record
Roy William Neill
Film Director
4-Sep-1887 14-Dec-1946 Pursuit to Algiers
Sir John Oldcastle
Military
c. 1378 14-Dec-1417 Lollard rebel leader
Neva Patterson
Actor
10-Feb-1920 14-Dec-2010 An Affair to Remember
Charles B. Purvis
Doctor
14-Apr-1842 14-Dec-1929 Pioneering African-American physician
Gregory Ratoff
Film Director
20-Apr-1897 14-Dec-1960 Intermezzo: A Love Story
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Novelist
8-Aug-1896 14-Dec-1953 The Yearling
Andrei Sakharov
Physicist
21-May-1921 14-Dec-1989 Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb
Harry Snyder
Business
9-Sep-1913 14-Dec-1976 Co-Founder of In-N-Out Burger
Annette Strauss
Politician
26-Jan-1924 14-Dec-1998 Mayor of Dallas 1987-91
Stuart Symington
Politician
26-Jun-1901 14-Dec-1988 US Senator from Missouri, 1953-76
Arthur Treacher
Actor
23-Jul-1894 14-Dec-1975 The Merv Griffin Show
Trevanian
Novelist
12-Jun-1931 14-Dec-2005 The Eiger Sanction
Dinah Washington
Singer
29-Aug-1924 14-Dec-1963 Queen of the Blues
George Washington
Head of State
22-Feb-1732 14-Dec-1799 1st US President, 1789-97
Hubert Work
Government
3-Jul-1860 14-Dec-1942 US Interior Secretary, 1923-28




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