| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Babur |
Royalty |
14-Feb-1483 |
26-Dec-1530 |
Mughal Emperor |
| Jack Benny |
Actor |
14-Feb-1894 |
26-Dec-1974 |
The Jack Benny Show |
| Lennox Berkeley |
Composer |
12-May-1903 |
26-Dec-1989 |
Stabat Mater |
| Salvador Jorge Blanco |
Head of State |
5-Jul-1926 |
26-Dec-2010 |
President of Dominican Republic, 1982-86 |
| Dennis Brutus |
Poet |
28-Nov-1924 |
26-Dec-2009 |
Sirens, Knuckles and Boots |
| George Dangerfield |
Historian |
28-Oct-1904 |
26-Dec-1986 |
The Strange Death of Liberal England |
| Melvil Dewey |
Curator |
10-Dec-1851 |
26-Dec-1931 |
Dewey Decimal System |
| John Diebold |
Author |
8-Jun-1926 |
26-Dec-2005 |
Advocate of automation |
| Robert Emhardt |
Actor |
24-Jul-1914 |
26-Dec-1994 |
The Intruder |
| Gerald Ford |
Head of State |
14-Jul-1913 |
26-Dec-2006 |
38th US President, 1974-77 |
| Dian Fossey |
Anthropologist |
16-Jan-1932 |
26-Dec-1985 |
Gorillas in the Mist |
| James Gadsden |
Military |
15-May-1788 |
26-Dec-1858 |
Gadsden Purchase |
| Leo Gordon |
Actor |
2-Dec-1922 |
26-Dec-2000 |
Riot in Cell Block 11 |
| Ivor Gurney |
Poet |
28-Aug-1890 |
26-Dec-1937 |
War's Embers |
| William Haines |
Actor |
2-Jan-1900 |
26-Dec-1973 |
Hollywood's first openly gay leading man |
| Doug Harvey |
Hockey |
19-Dec-1924 |
26-Dec-1989 |
NHL Hall of Famer |
| Hurd Hatfield |
Actor |
7-Dec-1917 |
26-Dec-1998 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Gayelord Hauser |
Author |
1895 |
26-Dec-1984 |
Look Younger, Live Longer |
| Howard Hawks |
Film Director |
30-May-1896 |
26-Dec-1977 |
Rio Bravo |
| Nigel Hawthorne |
Actor |
5-Apr-1929 |
26-Dec-2001 |
The Madness of King George |
| Claude-Adrien Helvétius |
Philosopher |
26-Jan-1715 |
26-Dec-1771 |
De l'Esprit |
| Kin Hubbard |
Cartoonist |
1-Sep-1868 |
26-Dec-1930 |
Abe Martin of Brown County |
| Paul B. Johnson, Sr. |
Politician |
23-Mar-1880 |
26-Dec-1943 |
Governor of Mississippi, 1940-43 |
| Sylva Koscina |
Actor |
22-Aug-1933 |
26-Dec-1994 |
Bride of Hercules |
| Elsa Lanchester |
Actor |
28-Oct-1902 |
26-Dec-1986 |
Bride of Frankenstein |
| Paul Landres |
Film Director |
21-Aug-1912 |
26-Dec-2001 |
B-Movie and television director |
| William Leonard Langer |
Historian |
16-Mar-1896 |
26-Dec-1977 |
Our Vichy Gamble |
| John Loder |
Actor |
3-Jan-1898 |
26-Dec-1988 |
Sabotage |
| Robert Lowery |
Actor |
17-Oct-1913 |
26-Dec-1971 |
The Mummy's Ghost |
| Teena Marie |
Singer/Songwriter |
5-Mar-1956 |
26-Dec-2010 |
White soul singer/songwriter |
| Curtis Mayfield |
Musician |
3-Jun-1942 |
26-Dec-1999 |
Superfly soundtrack |
| Jeff Morrow |
Actor |
13-Jan-1907 |
26-Dec-1993 |
This Island Earth |
| Kerry Packer |
Business |
17-Dec-1937 |
26-Dec-2005 |
Richest man in Australia |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer |
Chemist |
6-Jan-1914 |
26-Dec-1997 |
President of Rice University, 1961-68 |
| JonBenét Ramsey |
Victim |
6-Aug-1990 |
26-Dec-1996 |
6-year-old murdered pageant winner |
| Frederic Remington |
Sculptor |
4-Oct-1861 |
26-Dec-1909 |
The Bronco Buster |
| Jason Robards |
Actor |
26-Jul-1922 |
26-Dec-2000 |
All The President's Men |
| Vincent Schiavelli |
Actor |
10-Nov-1948 |
26-Dec-2005 |
Character actor and cookbook author |
| Heinrich Schliemann |
Archaeologist |
6-Jan-1822 |
26-Dec-1890 |
Discoverer of ancient Troy |
| David Taylor |
Politician |
22-Aug-1946 |
26-Dec-2009 |
British MP, North West Leicestershire |
| Erich Topp |
Military |
2-Jul-1914 |
26-Dec-2005 |
World War II U-Boat commander |
| Harry S. Truman |
Head of State |
8-May-1884 |
26-Dec-1972 |
33rd US President, 1945-53 |
| Preston Tucker |
Business |
21-Sep-1903 |
26-Dec-1956 |
The car of tomorrow -- today |
| Max M. Warburg |
Business |
5-Jun-1867 |
26-Dec-1946 |
M. M. Warburg & Company |
| Weegee |
Photographer |
12-Jun-1899 |
26-Dec-1968 |
Crime photographer |
| Reggie White |
Football |
19-Dec-1961 |
26-Dec-2004 |
NFL's Minister of Defense |
| John Wilkes |
Politician |
17-Oct-1725 |
26-Dec-1797 |
Colorful London radical |
| Nikolai Yazykov |
Poet |
16-Mar-1803 |
26-Dec-1846 |
Russian Golden Age poet |
| Huang Yong |
Criminal |
c. 1974 |
26-Dec-2003 |
Prolific Chinese serial killer |
