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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edwin A. Abbott
Author
20-Dec-1838 12-Oct-1926 Flatland
Walter S. Adams
Astronomer
20-Dec-1876 11-May-1956 Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory
Jenny Agutter
Actor
20-Dec-1952   Jessica 6 in Logan's Run
Michael Badalucco
Actor
20-Dec-1954   Jimmy Berluti on The Practice
Nicole de Boer
Actor
20-Dec-1970   Lt. Dax on Star Trek: DS9
David Bohm
Physicist
20-Dec-1917 29-Oct-1992 Particle physicist
Billy Bragg
Musician
20-Dec-1957   Sexuality
Henry Brown
Politician
20-Dec-1935   Congressman, South Carolina 1st
Ferdinand Buisson
Activist
20-Dec-1841 16-Feb-1932 French pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Robin Bush
Relative
20-Dec-1949 11-Oct-1953 George W. Bush sister, died at age four
Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
Politician
20-Dec-1914   US Senator from Virginia, 1965-83
Hortense Calisher
Novelist
20-Dec-1911 15-Jan-2009 In the Absence of Angels
Charlie Callas
Comic
20-Dec-1924 27-Jan-2011 Malcolm Argos on Switch
Jean Carnahan
Politician
20-Dec-1933   US Senator from Missouri, 2001-02
Michel Chartrand
Labor Leader
20-Dec-1916 12-Apr-2010 Quebec nationalist labor activist
Jack Christiansen
Football
20-Dec-1928 29-Jun-1986 NFL Hall of Famer, coach
Sandra Cisneros
Author
20-Dec-1954   The House on Mango Street
Andrei Codrescu
Author
20-Dec-1946   Exquisite Corpse
David Cook
Singer
20-Dec-1982   Season 7 winner, American Idol
Cecil Cooper
Baseball
20-Dec-1949   Manager, Houston Astros
Peter Criss
Drummer
20-Dec-1945   One of the original KISS quartet
James R. Curtiss
Attorney
20-Dec-1953   Nuclear lobbyist, Winston & Strawn
Albert Dekker
Actor
20-Dec-1905 5-May-1968 The Wild Bunch
Irene Dunne
Actor
20-Dec-1898 4-Sep-1990 Penny Serenade
Harvey Firestone
Business
20-Dec-1868 7-Feb-1938 Rubber tire baron
Uri Geller
Paranormal
20-Dec-1946   Thinks he has us snowed
Terry George
Film Director
20-Dec-1952   Hotel Rwanda
Gordon Getty
Business
20-Dec-1934   Heir to the Getty Oil fortune
Lowell Gilmore
Actor
20-Dec-1906 31-Jan-1960 King Solomon's Mines
James Goodby
Diplomat
20-Dec-1929   US Ambassador to Finland, 1980-81
Charley Grapewin
Actor
20-Dec-1869 2-Feb-1956 Tobacco Road
Joel Gretsch
Actor
20-Dec-1963   Tom Baldwin on The 4400
Tom Gries
Film Director
20-Dec-1922 3-Jan-1977 Breakheart Pass
Gabby Hartnett
Baseball
20-Dec-1900 20-Dec-1972 Chicago Cubs catcher, Hall-of-Famer
Bob Hayes
Football
20-Dec-1942 18-Sep-2002 Sprinter, Cowboy, NFH Hall-of-Famer
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
Chemist
20-Dec-1890 27-Mar-1967 Polarography
George Roy Hill
Film Director
20-Dec-1921 27-Dec-2002 Slaughterhouse Five
Jonah Hill
Actor
20-Dec-1983   Superbad
John Hillerman
Actor
20-Dec-1932   Higgins on Magnum, P.I.
Sidney Hook
Philosopher
20-Dec-1902 12-Jul-1989 Pragmatist
Geoffrey Howe
Politician
20-Dec-1926   UK Foreign Secretary, 1983-89
JoJo
Singer
20-Dec-1990   Leave (Get Out)
Kathryn Joosten
Actor
20-Dec-1939 2-Jun-2012 Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives
John W. Kern
Politician
20-Dec-1849 17-Aug-1917 US Senator from Indiana, 1911-17
Kim Ki-Duk
Film Director
20-Dec-1960   Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Cynthia D. Kinser
Judge
20-Dec-1951   Justice, Virginia Supreme Court
Otto Lambsdorff
Politician
20-Dec-1926 5-Dec-2009 German Economic Minister, 1977-84
Max Lerner
Sociologist
20-Dec-1902 5-Jun-1992 Ideas Are Weapons
David Levine
Cartoonist
20-Dec-1926 29-Dec-2009 Caricaturist, New York Review of Books
Robert Menzies
Head of State
20-Dec-1894 15-May-1978 Twice Prime Minister of Australia
Dennis Morgan
Actor
20-Dec-1908 7-Sep-1994 My Wild Irish Rose
Samuel Mudd
Doctor
20-Dec-1833 10-Jan-1883 Physician who treated Lincoln's assassin
Alan Parsons
Musician
20-Dec-1948   Studio engineer and Project leader
Sonny Perdue
Politician
20-Dec-1946   Governor of Georgia, 2003-11
Jerry Perenchio
Business
20-Dec-1930   Univision billionaire
Todd Phillips
Film Director
20-Dec-1970   Old School
Mala Powers
Actor
20-Dec-1931 11-Jun-2007 Cyrano de Bergerac
Jean Racine
Playwright
20-Dec-1639 21-Apr-1699 Phèdre
Marjorie O. Rendell
Judge
20-Dec-1947   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Ann Richards
Actor
20-Dec-1917 24-Aug-2006 Sorry, Wrong Number
Branch Rickey
Baseball
20-Dec-1881 9-Dec-1965 Longtime Baseball GM
Chris Robinson
Musician
20-Dec-1966   Lead singer, The Black Crowes
C. J. Rogers
Politician
20-Dec-1897 18-May-1962 Governor of Wyoming, 1953-55
Bo Ryan
Basketball
20-Dec-1947   Head Coach, UW-Madison
Kim Young Sam
Head of State
20-Dec-1927   President of South Korea, 1993-98
Eduardo Sánchez
Film Director
20-Dec-1968   The Blair Witch Project
John D. Scanlan
Diplomat
20-Dec-1927 20-Nov-2007 US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1985-89
Giuliana Sgrena
Activist
20-Dec-1948   Marxist journalist, kidnapped in Iraq
Joey Silvera
Pornstar
20-Dec-1951   Anal Hounds and Bitches
Ike Skelton
Politician
20-Dec-1931   Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2011
John J. Sparkman
Politician
20-Dec-1899 16-Nov-1985 US Senator from Alabama, 1946-79
John Spencer
Actor
20-Dec-1946 16-Dec-2005 Leo McGarry on The West Wing
Tom Tancredo
Politician
20-Dec-1945   Congressman from Colorado, 1999-2009
Angel Tompkins
Actor
20-Dec-1943   I Love My Wife
Audrey Totter
Actor
20-Dec-1918   The Unsuspected
Jean-Claude Trichet
Business
20-Dec-1942   President, European Central Bank
Gloria Tristani
Government
20-Dec-1953   FCC Commissioner, 1997-2001
Mike Watt
Musician
20-Dec-1957   fIREHOSE, Minutemen
Paul Francis Webster
Songwriter
20-Dec-1907 22-Mar-1984 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
William Julius Wilson
Sociologist
20-Dec-1935   Poverty in America's inner cities
Dick Wolf
Film/TV Producer
20-Dec-1946   Producer of Law and Order
David Wright
Baseball
20-Dec-1982   3rd Base, New York Mets


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