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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hervey Allen
Poet
8-Dec-1889 28-Dec-1949 Ballads of the Border
Gregg Allman
Musician
8-Dec-1947   The Allman Brothers
Barbara Cox Anthony
Business
8-Dec-1922 28-May-2007 Cox Enterprises billionaire
John Banville
Novelist
8-Dec-1945   The Book of Evidence
Paul A. Baran
Economist
8-Dec-1910 26-Mar-1964 Marxist economist
Tom Barrett
Politician
8-Dec-1953   Mayor of Milwaukee
William W. Barron
Politician
8-Dec-1911 12-Nov-2002 Governor of West Virginia, 1961-65
Kim Basinger
Actor
8-Dec-1953   L.A. Confidential
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Playwright
8-Dec-1832 26-Apr-1910 Synnöve Solbakken
Bob Brown
Football
8-Dec-1941   NFL Hall of Famer
Elihu Burritt
Activist
8-Dec-1810 6-Mar-1879 Organized Friends of Peace
Jerry Butler
Singer/Songwriter
8-Dec-1939   The Ice Man
David Carradine
Actor
8-Dec-1936 3-Jun-2009 Grasshopper
Paul Cavanagh
Actor
8-Dec-1888 15-Mar-1964 The Scarlet Claw
Thomas R. Cech
Chemist
8-Dec-1947   Proved enzyme role of RNA
Whitman Chambers
Novelist
8-Dec-1896 20-Jul-1968 Hard-boiled mystery novelist
Christina of Sweden
Royalty
8-Dec-1626 16-Apr-1689 Crossdressing Queen of Sweden 1632-54
George Christopher
Politician
8-Dec-1907 14-Sep-2000 Mayor of San Francisco, 1956-64
Camille Claudel
Sculptor
8-Dec-1864 19-Oct-1943 French sculptor, mistress of Rodin
Lee J. Cobb
Actor
8-Dec-1911 11-Feb-1976 The Left Hand of God
Michael Cole
TV Personality
8-Dec-1968   WWE Announcer
Phil Collen
Guitarist
8-Dec-1957   Guitarist for Def Leppard
Padraic Colum
Novelist
8-Dec-1881 11-Jan-1972 Wild Earth
Ann Coulter
Pundit
8-Dec-1961   Rightwing bombthrower
Duke Cunningham
Politician
8-Dec-1941   Congressman from California, 1991-2005
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Singer
8-Dec-1925 16-May-1990 Coolest hepcat in the Rat Pack
Dharmendra
Actor
8-Dec-1935   Phool Aur Patthar
William C. Durant
Business
8-Dec-1861 18-Mar-1947 Founder of General Motors
Steve Elkington
Golf
8-Dec-1962   Winner, 1995 PGA Championship
Frank Faylen
Actor
8-Dec-1905 2-Aug-1985 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Norman Finkelstein
Scholar
8-Dec-1953   The Holocaust Industry
Richard Fleischer
Film Director
8-Dec-1916 24-Mar-2006 Soylent Green
Noël Forgeard
Business
8-Dec-1946   CEO of Airbus, 2004-06
James Galway
Musician
8-Dec-1939   Flute virtuoso
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard
Mathematician
8-Dec-1865 17-Oct-1963 Prime number theorem
Peter Andreas Hansen
Astronomer
8-Dec-1795 28-Mar-1874 Fundamenta nova investigationis
Dan Hartman
Singer/Songwriter
8-Dec-1950 22-Mar-1994 I Can Dream About You
Kevin Harvick
Auto Racing
8-Dec-1975   Winner, 2007 Daytona 500
Teri Hatcher
Actor
8-Dec-1964   Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives
Bertie Higgins
Singer/Songwriter
8-Dec-1944   Key Largo
Tom Holkenborg
Musician
8-Dec-1967   Junkie XL
Dwight Howard
Basketball
8-Dec-1985   Los Angeles Lakers center
Billy Hufsey
Actor
8-Dec-1958   Christopher Donlon on Fame
Francis Huster
Actor
8-Dec-1947   The Dinner Game
Mikhail Kasyanov
Head of State
8-Dec-1957   Prime Minister of Russia, 2000-04
Jim Yong Kim
Educator
8-Dec-1959   President of Dartmouth College
Sam Kinison
Comic
8-Dec-1953 10-Apr-1992 Caustic stand-up comic
Bernie Krause
Musician
8-Dec-1938   Field recordist, electronic musician
John Kufuor
Head of State
8-Dec-1938   President of Ghana, 2001-09
Raúl Labrador
Politician
8-Dec-1967   Congressman, Idaho 1st
Edward G. Lanpher
Diplomat
8-Dec-1942   US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 1991-95
Carina Lau
Actor
8-Dec-1964   Infernal Affairs
Richard Llewellyn
Novelist
8-Dec-1906 30-Nov-1983 How Green Was My Valley
Lauren Luke
YouTube Personality
8-Dec-1981   YouTube make-up entrepreneur
James MacArthur
Actor
8-Dec-1937 28-Oct-2010 Dano from Hawaii 5-O
John MacDougall
Politician
8-Dec-1947 13-Aug-2008 Labour MP for Glenrothes, 2005-08
Dewey Martin
Actor
8-Dec-1923   The Big Sky
Mary I of Scotland
Royalty
8-Dec-1542 8-Feb-1587 Mary, Queen of Scots
Edward McGaffigan
Government
8-Dec-1948 2-Sep-2007 NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007
Bird McIntyre
Singer
8-Dec-1958   Thai pop star
Bill McKibben
Activist
8-Dec-1960   The End of Nature
Nancy Meyers
Film Director
8-Dec-1949   What Women Want
Chrisette Michele
Singer
8-Dec-1982   Be OK
Nicki Minaj
Singer
8-Dec-1984   Pink Friday
Dominic Monaghan
Actor
8-Dec-1976   Charlie on Lost
Jim Morrison
Singer/Songwriter
8-Dec-1943 3-Jul-1971 Lead singer and songwriter, The Doors
Mike Mussina
Baseball
8-Dec-1968   Pitcher, New York Yankees
Sinead O'Connor
Musician
8-Dec-1966   Pop star ripped up Pope picture
Wendell Pierce
Actor
8-Dec-1962   Det. Moreland on The Wire
Jean Porter
Actor
8-Dec-1925   Till the End of Time
John Qualen
Actor
8-Dec-1899 12-Sep-1987 The Grapes of Wrath
Diego Rivera
Painter
8-Dec-1886 24-Nov-1957 Mexican painter
AnnaSophia Robb
Actor
8-Dec-1993   Because of Winn-Dixie
Kenneth Roberts
Novelist
8-Dec-1885 21-Jul-1957 Northwest Passage
George Rogers
Football
8-Dec-1958   Winner, 1980 Heisman Trophy
Kathleen Ryan
Actor
8-Dec-1922 11-Nov-1985 The Sound of Fury
Mario Savio
Activist
8-Dec-1942 6-Nov-1996 Free Speech Movement
Maximilian Schell
Actor
8-Dec-1930   Judgment at Nuremberg
Delmore Schwartz
Poet
8-Dec-1913 11-Jul-1966 Summer Knowledge
Raymond Seitz
Diplomat
8-Dec-1940   US Ambassador to the UK, 1991-94
Frank Shamrock
Wrestling
8-Dec-1972   Ultimate Fighting Champion
David Shea
Disc Jockey
8-Dec-1965   Turntablist and electronic music composer
Jean Sibelius
Composer
8-Dec-1865 20-Sep-1957 The Swan of Tuonela
Jimmy Smith
Jazz Musician
8-Dec-1925 8-Feb-2005 Master of the Hammond B3 organ
Ian Somerhalder
Actor
8-Dec-1978   Damon on The Vampire Diaries
William Spoelhof
Educator
8-Dec-1909 3-Dec-2008 President of Calvin College, 1951-76
Mark Steyn
Author
8-Dec-1959   America Alone
Sharmila Tagore
Actor
8-Dec-1946   Apur Sansar
James Tate
Poet
8-Dec-1943   The Lost Pilot
Corey Taylor
Singer
8-Dec-1973   Slipknot lead vocalist
John B. Taylor
Economist
8-Dec-1946   Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91
James Thurber
Author
8-Dec-1894 2-Nov-1961 Short story writer and cartoonist
Floyd Tillman
Country Musician
8-Dec-1914 22-Aug-2003 Honky-tonk drawler and guitarist
Jeff Tremaine
Film/TV Producer
8-Dec-1966   Co-creator of MTV's Jackass
Butch Vig
Music Producer
8-Dec-1957   Record producer, drummer for Garbage
Kate Voegele
Singer/Songwriter
8-Dec-1986   A Fine Mess
John A. Volpe
Politician
8-Dec-1908 11-Sep-1994 Twice Governor of Massachusetts
Eli Whitney
Inventor
8-Dec-1765 8-Jan-1825 Inventor of the cotton gin
Flip Wilson
Comic
8-Dec-1933 25-Nov-1998 The Flip Wilson Show
Mary Woronov
Actor
8-Dec-1943   Eating Raoul
George C. Wortley
Politician
8-Dec-1926   Congressman from New York, 1981-89


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