| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ed Barrow |
Baseball |
10-May-1868 |
15-Dec-1953 |
Yankees General Manager, 1920-45 |
| Alfonso Bedoya |
Actor |
16-Apr-1904 |
15-Dec-1957 |
Doesn't need no stinking badges |
| Julia Carson |
Politician |
8-Jul-1938 |
15-Dec-2007 |
Congresswoman from Indiana, 1997-2007 |
| Claud Cockburn |
Journalist |
12-Apr-1904 |
15-Dec-1981 |
Radical British journalist |
| Walt Disney |
Business |
5-Dec-1901 |
15-Dec-1966 |
Founder of Disney empire |
| Blake Edwards |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1922 |
15-Dec-2010 |
The Pink Panther |
| John A. Elston |
Politician |
10-Feb-1874 |
15-Dec-1921 |
US Congressman from California, 1915-21 |
| Bob Feller |
Baseball |
3-Nov-1918 |
15-Dec-2010 |
Pitched three no-hitters for Cleveland |
| Haakon IV Haakonsson |
Royalty |
1204 |
15-Dec-1263 |
King of Norway, 1217-63 |
| George Hickes |
Religion |
20-Jun-1642 |
15-Dec-1715 |
Provoked the Bangorian controversy |
| Christopher Hitchens |
Journalist |
13-Apr-1949 |
15-Dec-2011 |
Agent provocateur |
| Rodd Keith |
Musician |
30-Jan-1937 |
15-Dec-1974 |
Legendary Song-Poem Composer |
| Charles Laughton |
Actor |
1-Jul-1899 |
15-Dec-1962 |
Island of Lost Souls |
| Anatole Litvak |
Film Director |
10-May-1902 |
15-Dec-1974 |
Anastasia |
| Diane Middlebrook |
Author |
16-Apr-1939 |
15-Dec-2007 |
Biographer of Anne Sexton |
| Glenn Miller |
Musician |
1-Mar-1904 |
15-Dec-1944 |
Popular bandleader and trombonist |
| Donald Grant Mitchell |
Author |
12-Apr-1822 |
15-Dec-1908 |
Reveries of a Bachelor |
| Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
| Jan Peerce |
Singer |
3-Jun-1904 |
15-Dec-1984 |
Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Philip Syng Physick |
Doctor |
7-Jul-1768 |
15-Dec-1837 |
Father of American surgery |
| William Proxmire |
Politician |
11-Nov-1915 |
15-Dec-2005 |
US Senator from Wisconsin, 1957-89 |
| Whitelaw Reid |
Journalist |
27-Oct-1837 |
15-Dec-1912 |
Editor of the New York Tribune, 1872-1905 |
| Oral Roberts |
Religion |
24-Jan-1918 |
15-Dec-2009 |
Televangelist, faith healer |
| Selim II |
Royalty |
28-May-1524 |
15-Dec-1574 |
Ottoman Sultan, 1566-74 |
| Sitting Bull |
Military |
c. 1831 |
15-Dec-1890 |
Warrior Chief of the Sioux |
| Laurens van der Post |
Author |
13-Dec-1906 |
15-Dec-1996 |
The Lost World of the Kalahari |
| Jan Vermeer |
Painter |
31-Oct-1632 |
15-Dec-1675 |
17th c. Dutch Master |
| Fats Waller |
Jazz Musician |
21-May-1904 |
15-Dec-1943 |
Influential jazz pianist |
| Izaak Walton |
Author |
9-Aug-1593 |
15-Dec-1683 |
The Compleat Angler |
| Anthony Wayne |
Military |
1-Jan-1745 |
15-Dec-1796 |
Revolutionary War general |
| George White |
Politician |
21-Aug-1872 |
15-Dec-1953 |
Governor of Ohio, 1931-35 |
| Chill Wills |
Actor |
18-Jul-1903 |
15-Dec-1978 |
The Alamo |
