LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alois Alzheimer	Doctor	14-Jun-1864	19-Dec-1915	Alzheimer's Disease
V. C. Andrews	Author	6-Jun-1923	19-Dec-1986	Flowers in the Attic
Vitus Bering	Explorer	1681	19-Dec-1741	Danish navigator in the Bering Sea
James Bevel	Activist	19-Oct-1936	19-Dec-2008	Civil rights activist, convicted of incest
John Bigelow	Author	25-Nov-1817	19-Dec-1911	Ambassador to France, memoirist
Emily Brontë	Novelist	30-Jul-1818	19-Dec-1848	Wuthering Heights
Herbert C. Brown	Chemist	22-May-1912	19-Dec-2004	Discovered organoboranes
Prentiss M. Brown	Politician	18-Jun-1889	19-Dec-1973	US Senator from Michigan, 1936-43
James Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie	Government	12-Apr-1812	19-Dec-1860	Governor-General of India
Juan Bautista de Anza	Explorer	Jul-1736	19-Dec-1788	Spanish explorer
Dock Ellis	Baseball	11-Mar-1945	19-Dec-2008	Pitched a no-hitter on LSD
Vincent Gigante	Criminal	29-Mar-1928	19-Dec-2005	Mafia boss, headed the Genovese family
Lincoln Gordon	Diplomat	10-Sep-1913	19-Dec-2009	US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66
John Parker Hale	Politician	31-Mar-1806	19-Dec-1873	Anti-slavery US Senator from NH
Ronald Howard	Actor	7-Apr-1918	19-Dec-1996	Sherlock Holmes
Duncan Lamont	Actor	17-Jun-1918	19-Dec-1978	The Golden Coach
Hope Lange	Actor	28-Nov-1931	19-Dec-2003	Peyton Place
Paul Langevin	Physicist	23-Jan-1872	19-Dec-1946	Studied piezoelectricity
John Lindsay	Politician	24-Nov-1921	19-Dec-2000	Mayor of New York City, 1966-73
Desmond Llewelyn	Actor	12-Sep-1914	19-Dec-1999	"Q" in James Bond films
Dwight Macdonald	Critic	24-Mar-1906	19-Dec-1982	Against the American Grain
Michel Magne	Musician	20-Mar-1930	19-Dec-1984	Tropical Fantasy
Marcello Mastroianni	Actor	28-Sep-1924	19-Dec-1996	The Pizza Triangle
Robert A. Millikan	Physicist	22-Mar-1868	19-Dec-1953	Determined the charge of an electron
Francis P. Murphy	Politician	16-Aug-1877	19-Dec-1958	Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41
Michael Oakeshott	Philosopher	11-Dec-1901	19-Dec-1990	Rationalism in Politics
Kim Peek	Oddity	11-Nov-1951	19-Dec-2009	Inspiration for Raymond in Rain Man
Nellie Ross	Politician	29-Nov-1876	19-Dec-1977	First woman elected Governor in America
Pops Staples	Guitarist	28-Dec-1915	19-Dec-2000	Blues guitarist
Balfour Stewart	Physicist	1-Nov-1828	19-Dec-1887	Studied magnetism, radiant heat
Bayard Taylor	Author	11-Jan-1825	19-Dec-1878	Europe seen with Knapsack
Frederick Terman	Scientist	7-Jun-1900	19-Dec-1982	Stanford Research Park
Norman Thomas	Activist	20-Nov-1884	19-Dec-1968	American Socialist Party
Jacques Tourneur	Film Director	12-Nov-1904	19-Dec-1977	Original 1942 Cat People
Les Tremayne	Radio Personality	16-Apr-1913	19-Dec-2003	Veteran of 30,000 radio broadcasts
J. M. W. Turner	Painter	23-Apr-1775	19-Dec-1851	Romanticist English lanscape painter
Pope Urban V	Religion	1309	19-Dec-1370	Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1362-70
Sam Wanamaker	Actor	14-Jun-1919	19-Dec-1993	Rebuilt Globe Theatre
Harold Watkinson	Politician	25-Jan-1910	19-Dec-1995	UK Minister of Defence, 1959-62

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