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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Walter Abish
Author
24-Dec-1931   Alphabetical Africa
Ilham Aliyev
Head of State
24-Dec-1961   President of Azerbaijan
Matthew Arnold
Poet
24-Dec-1822 15-Apr-1888 Culture and Anarchy
Diedrich Bader
Actor
24-Dec-1966   The Drew Carey Show
Max Baer
Judge
24-Dec-1947   Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Jill Bennett
Actor
24-Dec-1931 4-Oct-1990 The Sheltering Sky
Michael Billington
Actor
24-Dec-1941 3-Jun-2005 Col. Paul Foster on UFO
Harry Brittain
Journalist
24-Dec-1873 9-Jul-1974 Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society
Christopher Buckley
Novelist
24-Dec-1952   Thank You for Smoking
Lorne Calvert
Politician
24-Dec-1954   Premier of Saskatchewan, 2001-07
Timothy Carhart
Actor
24-Dec-1953   Pink Cadillac
Janet Carroll
Actor
24-Dec-1940 22-May-2012 Risky Business
Kit Carson
Explorer
24-Dec-1809 23-May-1868 Frontiersman and Indian agent
James Hadley Chase
Novelist
24-Dec-1906 6-Feb-1985 No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Ruth Chatterton
Actor
24-Dec-1893 24-Nov-1961 Madame X
Mary Higgins Clark
Novelist
24-Dec-1929   A Stranger is Watching
John Cardinal Cody
Religion
24-Dec-1907 25-Apr-1982 Archbishop of Chicago, 1965-82
Joseph Cornell
Sculptor
24-Dec-1903 29-Dec-1972 Exponent of Assemblage
Mike Curb
Politician
24-Dec-1944   Lt. Governor of California, 1979-83
Michael Curtiz
Film Director
24-Dec-1886 10-Apr-1962 Casablanca
Silas Deane
Diplomat
24-Dec-1737 23-Sep-1789 First accredited US diplomat
Bill Dudley
Football
24-Dec-1921 4-Feb-2010 NFL Hall of Famer
Galba
Royalty
24-Dec-3 BC 15-Jan-69 AD Roman Emperor, 68-69 AD
Ava Gardner
Actor
24-Dec-1922 25-Jan-1990 The Barefoot Contessa
George I
Royalty
24-Dec-1845 18-Mar-1913 King of Greece, 1863-1913
Clarence Gilyard
Actor
24-Dec-1955   Conrad McMasters on Matlock
Tarja Halonen
Head of State
24-Dec-1943   President of Finland
Carol Haney
Dancer
24-Dec-1924 10-May-1964 The Pajama Game
Johnny Isakson
Politician
24-Dec-1944   US Senator from Georgia
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Poet
24-Dec-1881 29-May-1958 Pastorales
King John Lackland
Royalty
24-Dec-1166 18-Oct-1216 Signed the Magna Carta, then reneged
James A. Johnson
Business
24-Dec-1943   CEO of Fannie Mae, 1991-98
David Cay Johnston
Journalist
24-Dec-1948   Perfectly Legal
James Prescott Joule
Physicist
24-Dec-1818 11-Oct-1889 English physicist, Joule's Law
Louis Jouvet
Actor
24-Dec-1887 16-Aug-1951 The Strange Adventures of Doctor Molyneaux
Joseph M. Juran
Scientist
24-Dec-1904 28-Feb-2008 The Pareto Principle
Mauricio Kagel
Composer
24-Dec-1931 18-Sep-2008 Absurdist composer
Anil Kapoor
Actor
24-Dec-1959   Taal
Hamid Karzai
Head of State
24-Dec-1957   President of Afghanistan
Richard T. Kennedy
Diplomat
24-Dec-1919 11-Jan-1998 US Ambassador for Nuclear Energy Policy
Volker Kriegel
Jazz Musician
24-Dec-1943 15-Jun-2003 "Father of jazz-rock"
James T. Laney
Educator
24-Dec-1927   President of Emory University, 1977-93
Fritz Leiber
Author
24-Dec-1910 5-Sep-1992 Ship of Shadows
Lemmy
Singer
24-Dec-1945   Bassist for Motorhead
Ricky Martin
Singer
24-Dec-1971   Livin' La Vida Loca
Charles Meade
Religion
24-Dec-1916 10-Apr-2010 Meade Ministries, Inc.
Stjepan Mesic
Head of State
24-Dec-1934   President of Croatia
Nicholas Meyer
Film Director
24-Dec-1945   Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Stephenie Meyer
Novelist
24-Dec-1973   Author of Twilight series
Max Miedinger
Typographer
24-Dec-1910 8-Mar-1980 Designed the Helvetica typeface
Ed Miliband
Politician
24-Dec-1969   British MP, Doncaster North
Mark Millar
Cartoonist
24-Dec-1969   The Ultimates, Ultimate X-Men writer
Randy Neugebauer
Politician
24-Dec-1949   Congressman, Texas 19th
Charles Ng
Criminal
24-Dec-1960   On death row in California
Amaury Nolasco
Actor
24-Dec-1970   Fernando Sucre on Prison Break
Barbara J. Pariente
Judge
24-Dec-1948   Justice, Florida Supreme Court
Matt Passmore
Actor
24-Dec-1972   Jim Longworth on The Glades
William Paterson
Judge
24-Dec-1745 9-Sep-1806 US Supreme Court Justice, 1793-1806
Walter Pincus
Journalist
24-Dec-1932   Washington Post reporter with CIA ties
David T. Prosser, Jr.
Judge
24-Dec-1942   Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Charles Redman
Diplomat
24-Dec-1943   US Ambassador to Germany, 1994-96
Ad Reinhardt
Painter
24-Dec-1913 30-Aug-1967 Abstract expressionist
Norman Rossington
Actor
24-Dec-1928 21-May-1999 A Hard Day's Night
David Rothkopf
Author
24-Dec-1955   Superclass
Michael E. Ryan
Military
24-Dec-1941   USAF Chief of Staff, 1997-2001
Robert Schwartzman
Singer
24-Dec-1982   Lead vocalist of Rooney
Ryan Seacrest
Game Show Host
24-Dec-1974   Host of American Idol
Jeff Sessions
Politician
24-Dec-1946   US Senator from Alabama
Gene Sperling
Economist
24-Dec-1958   Chief Economic Advisor, 1996-2000
I. F. Stone
Journalist
24-Dec-1907 17-Jul-1989 I. F. Stone's Weekly
Louis Tomlinson
Singer
24-Dec-1991   One Direction
Mark Valley
Actor
24-Dec-1964   Christopher Chance on Human Target
William S. Vare
Politician
24-Dec-1867 7-Aug-1934 Philadelphia political boss
Peter Jon de Vos
Diplomat
24-Dec-1938 9-Jun-2008 US Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1994-97
William Warburton
Religion
24-Dec-1698 7-Jun-1779 Divine Legation
Harry Warren
Composer
24-Dec-1893 22-Sep-1981 Forty-Second Street
Jay Wright
Basketball
24-Dec-1961   Villanova Head Coach
Delbert W. Yocam
Business
24-Dec-1943   CEO of Borland, 1996-99
Jonathan Zittrain
Educator
24-Dec-1969   The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It


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