LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ed Barrow	Baseball	10-May-1868	15-Dec-1953	Yankees General Manager, 1920-45
Alfonso Bedoya	Actor	16-Apr-1904	15-Dec-1957	Doesn't need no stinking badges
Julia Carson	Politician	8-Jul-1938	15-Dec-2007	Congresswoman from Indiana, 1997-2007
Claud Cockburn	Journalist	12-Apr-1904	15-Dec-1981	Radical British journalist
Walt Disney	Business	5-Dec-1901	15-Dec-1966	Founder of Disney empire
Blake Edwards	Film Director	26-Jul-1922	15-Dec-2010	The Pink Panther
John A. Elston	Politician	10-Feb-1874	15-Dec-1921	US Congressman from California, 1915-21
Bob Feller	Baseball	3-Nov-1918	15-Dec-2010	Pitched three no-hitters for Cleveland
Haakon IV Haakonsson	Royalty	1204	15-Dec-1263	King of Norway, 1217-63
George Hickes	Religion	20-Jun-1642	15-Dec-1715	Provoked the Bangorian controversy
Christopher Hitchens	Journalist	13-Apr-1949	15-Dec-2011	Agent provocateur
Rodd Keith	Musician	30-Jan-1937	15-Dec-1974	Legendary Song-Poem Composer
Charles Laughton	Actor	1-Jul-1899	15-Dec-1962	Island of Lost Souls
Anatole Litvak	Film Director	10-May-1902	15-Dec-1974	Anastasia
Diane Middlebrook	Author	16-Apr-1939	15-Dec-2007	Biographer of Anne Sexton
Glenn Miller	Musician	1-Mar-1904	15-Dec-1944	Popular bandleader and trombonist
Donald Grant Mitchell	Author	12-Apr-1822	15-Dec-1908	Reveries of a Bachelor
Wolfgang Pauli	Physicist	25-Apr-1900	15-Dec-1958	Pauli Exclusion Principle
Jan Peerce	Singer	3-Jun-1904	15-Dec-1984	Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera
Philip Syng Physick	Doctor	7-Jul-1768	15-Dec-1837	Father of American surgery
William Proxmire	Politician	11-Nov-1915	15-Dec-2005	US Senator from Wisconsin, 1957-89
Whitelaw Reid	Journalist	27-Oct-1837	15-Dec-1912	Editor of the New York Tribune, 1872-1905
Oral Roberts	Religion	24-Jan-1918	15-Dec-2009	Televangelist, faith healer
Selim II	Royalty	28-May-1524	15-Dec-1574	Ottoman Sultan, 1566-74
Sitting Bull	Military	c. 1831	15-Dec-1890	Warrior Chief of the Sioux
Laurens van der Post	Author	13-Dec-1906	15-Dec-1996	The Lost World of the Kalahari
Jan Vermeer	Painter	31-Oct-1632	15-Dec-1675	17th c. Dutch Master
Fats Waller	Jazz Musician	21-May-1904	15-Dec-1943	Influential jazz pianist
Izaak Walton	Author	9-Aug-1593	15-Dec-1683	The Compleat Angler
Anthony Wayne	Military	1-Jan-1745	15-Dec-1796	Revolutionary War general
George White	Politician	21-Aug-1872	15-Dec-1953	Governor of Ohio, 1931-35
Chill Wills	Actor	18-Jul-1903	15-Dec-1978	The Alamo

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