| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Alois Alzheimer |
Doctor |
14-Jun-1864 |
19-Dec-1915 |
Alzheimer's Disease |
| V. C. Andrews |
Author |
6-Jun-1923 |
19-Dec-1986 |
Flowers in the Attic |
| Vitus Bering |
Explorer |
1681 |
19-Dec-1741 |
Danish navigator in the Bering Sea |
| James Bevel |
Activist |
19-Oct-1936 |
19-Dec-2008 |
Civil rights activist, convicted of incest |
| John Bigelow |
Author |
25-Nov-1817 |
19-Dec-1911 |
Ambassador to France, memoirist |
| Emily Brontë |
Novelist |
30-Jul-1818 |
19-Dec-1848 |
Wuthering Heights |
| Herbert C. Brown |
Chemist |
22-May-1912 |
19-Dec-2004 |
Discovered organoboranes |
| Prentiss M. Brown |
Politician |
18-Jun-1889 |
19-Dec-1973 |
US Senator from Michigan, 1936-43 |
| James Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie |
Government |
12-Apr-1812 |
19-Dec-1860 |
Governor-General of India |
| Juan Bautista de Anza |
Explorer |
Jul-1736 |
19-Dec-1788 |
Spanish explorer |
| Dock Ellis |
Baseball |
11-Mar-1945 |
19-Dec-2008 |
Pitched a no-hitter on LSD |
| Vincent Gigante |
Criminal |
29-Mar-1928 |
19-Dec-2005 |
Mafia boss, headed the Genovese family |
| Lincoln Gordon |
Diplomat |
10-Sep-1913 |
19-Dec-2009 |
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66 |
| John Parker Hale |
Politician |
31-Mar-1806 |
19-Dec-1873 |
Anti-slavery US Senator from NH |
| Ronald Howard |
Actor |
7-Apr-1918 |
19-Dec-1996 |
Sherlock Holmes |
| Duncan Lamont |
Actor |
17-Jun-1918 |
19-Dec-1978 |
The Golden Coach |
| Hope Lange |
Actor |
28-Nov-1931 |
19-Dec-2003 |
Peyton Place |
| Paul Langevin |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1872 |
19-Dec-1946 |
Studied piezoelectricity |
| John Lindsay |
Politician |
24-Nov-1921 |
19-Dec-2000 |
Mayor of New York City, 1966-73 |
| Desmond Llewelyn |
Actor |
12-Sep-1914 |
19-Dec-1999 |
"Q" in James Bond films |
| Dwight Macdonald |
Critic |
24-Mar-1906 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Against the American Grain |
| Michel Magne |
Musician |
20-Mar-1930 |
19-Dec-1984 |
Tropical Fantasy |
| Marcello Mastroianni |
Actor |
28-Sep-1924 |
19-Dec-1996 |
The Pizza Triangle |
| Robert A. Millikan |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1868 |
19-Dec-1953 |
Determined the charge of an electron |
| Francis P. Murphy |
Politician |
16-Aug-1877 |
19-Dec-1958 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41 |
| Michael Oakeshott |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1901 |
19-Dec-1990 |
Rationalism in Politics |
| Kim Peek |
Oddity |
11-Nov-1951 |
19-Dec-2009 |
Inspiration for Raymond in Rain Man |
| Nellie Ross |
Politician |
29-Nov-1876 |
19-Dec-1977 |
First woman elected Governor in America |
| Pops Staples |
Guitarist |
28-Dec-1915 |
19-Dec-2000 |
Blues guitarist |
| Balfour Stewart |
Physicist |
1-Nov-1828 |
19-Dec-1887 |
Studied magnetism, radiant heat |
| Bayard Taylor |
Author |
11-Jan-1825 |
19-Dec-1878 |
Europe seen with Knapsack |
| Frederick Terman |
Scientist |
7-Jun-1900 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Stanford Research Park |
| Norman Thomas |
Activist |
20-Nov-1884 |
19-Dec-1968 |
American Socialist Party |
| Jacques Tourneur |
Film Director |
12-Nov-1904 |
19-Dec-1977 |
Original 1942 Cat People |
| Les Tremayne |
Radio Personality |
16-Apr-1913 |
19-Dec-2003 |
Veteran of 30,000 radio broadcasts |
| J. M. W. Turner |
Painter |
23-Apr-1775 |
19-Dec-1851 |
Romanticist English lanscape painter |
| Pope Urban V |
Religion |
1309 |
19-Dec-1370 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1362-70 |
| Sam Wanamaker |
Actor |
14-Jun-1919 |
19-Dec-1993 |
Rebuilt Globe Theatre |
| Harold Watkinson |
Politician |
25-Jan-1910 |
19-Dec-1995 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1959-62 |
