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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Stella Adler
Actor
10-Feb-1901 21-Dec-1992 Theater actress, Group Theater
Sigurd Anderson
Politician
22-Jan-1904 21-Dec-1990 Governor of South Dakota, 1951-55
Alexander T. Augusta
Doctor
8-Mar-1825 21-Dec-1890 First black battlefield surgeon
Giovanni Boccaccio
Author
1313 21-Dec-1375 Decameron
Rod Cameron
Actor
7-Dec-1910 21-Dec-1983 The Bounty Killer
Hattie Wyatt Caraway
Politician
1-Feb-1878 21-Dec-1950 First female elected to US Senate
Marc Connelly
Playwright
13-Dec-1890 21-Dec-1980 The Green Pastures
William Davison
Government
c. 1541 21-Dec-1608 Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I
Patrick H. Drewry
Politician
24-May-1875 21-Dec-1947 Congressman from Virginia, 1920-47
Stuart Erwin
Actor
14-Feb-1903 21-Dec-1967 The Stu Erwin Show
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author
24-Sep-1896 21-Dec-1940 The Great Gatsby
William J. Green, Jr.
Politician
5-Mar-1910 21-Dec-1963 Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1949-63
Myron Healey
Actor
8-Jun-1923 21-Dec-2005 Prolific actor in Westerns
Ted Healy
Actor
1-Oct-1896 21-Dec-1937 Creator of The Three Stooges
Kenneth J. Hendricks
Business
8-Sep-1941 21-Dec-2007 Billionaire, ABC Supply
Lister Hill
Politician
29-Dec-1894 21-Dec-1984 US Senator from Alabama, 1938-69
Hincmar
Religion
c. 805 AD 21-Dec-882 AD Archbishop of Reims
Kelly Johnson
Engineer
27-Feb-1910 21-Dec-1990 Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer
Frank B. Kellogg
Government
22-Dec-1856 21-Dec-1937 US Secretary of State, 1925-29
Albert King
Guitarist
25-Apr-1923 21-Dec-1992 Blues electric guitarist
Hans Koller
Musician
12-Feb-1921 21-Dec-2003 Austrian saxophone prodigy
Edwin G. Krebs
Scientist
6-Jun-1918 21-Dec-2009 Protein phosphorylation
Munro Leaf
Author
4-Dec-1905 21-Dec-1976 The Story of Ferdinand
Rowland V. Lee
Film Director
6-Sep-1891 21-Dec-1975 Son of Frankenstein
Richard Long
Actor
17-Dec-1927 21-Dec-1974 Jarrod Barkley on The Big Valley
Margaret of Angoulême
Royalty
11-Apr-1492 21-Dec-1549 Consort of Henry II of Navarre
Lambdin P. Milligan
Criminal
24-Mar-1812 21-Dec-1899 Ex Parte Milligan
Nathan Milstein
Violinist
31-Dec-1904 21-Dec-1992 Virtuoso violinist, interpreter of Bach
Ralph Nelson
Film Director
12-Aug-1916 21-Dec-1987 Father Goose
Robert Paige
Actor
2-Dec-1910 21-Dec-1987 Son of Dracula
James Parkinson
Doctor
11-Apr-1755 21-Dec-1824 Essay on the Shaking Palsy
George S. Patton
Military
11-Nov-1885 21-Dec-1945 American WWII Army commander
P. B. S. Pinchback
Government
10-May-1837 21-Dec-1921 First African-American US Governor
Samuel Rubin
Business
1901 21-Dec-1978 Founder of Fabergé Cosmetics
Dean Rusk
Government
9-Feb-1909 21-Dec-1994 US Secretary of State, 1961-69
Dick Schaap
Journalist
27-Sep-1934 21-Dec-2001 Flashing Before My Eyes
Bob Steele
Actor
23-Jan-1907 21-Dec-1988 Trooper Duffy on F Troop
Eugene Talmadge
Politician
23-Sep-1884 21-Dec-1946 Twice Governor of Georgia
Lewis Terman
Psychologist
15-Jan-1877 21-Dec-1956 Intelligence tests
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Zoologist
15-Apr-1907 21-Dec-1988 Grand Master of Ethology
Carl Van Vechten
Novelist
17-Jun-1880 21-Dec-1964 Patron of the Harlem Renaissance
H. B. Warner
Actor
26-Oct-1875 21-Dec-1958 The King of Kings




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