Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Princess Alice |
Royalty |
25-Dec-1901 |
29-Oct-2004 |
Late Duchess of Gloucester |
Lewis Allen |
Film Director |
25-Dec-1905 |
3-May-2000 |
The Uninvited |
William Andrews |
Football |
25-Dec-1955 |
|
Former Atlanta Falcons RB |
John Ashley |
Actor |
25-Dec-1934 |
3-Oct-1997 |
Beach Blanket Bingo |
Clara Barton |
Activist |
25-Dec-1821 |
12-Apr-1912 |
Co-Founder of the American Red Cross |
Ahmed Ben Bella |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1918 |
11-Apr-2012 |
President of Algeria, 1963-65 |
Humphrey Bogart |
Actor |
25-Dec-1899 |
14-Jan-1957 |
Casablanca |
Louise Bourgeois |
Sculptor |
25-Dec-1911 |
31-May-2010 |
Crouching Spider |
Bill Bowrey |
Tennis |
25-Dec-1943 |
|
Winner, 1968 Australian Championships |
J. Edward Bromberg |
Actor |
25-Dec-1903 |
6-Dec-1951 |
The Mark of Zorro |
Jimmy Buffett |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Dec-1946 |
|
Margaritaville |
Cab Calloway |
Jazz Musician |
25-Dec-1907 |
18-Nov-1994 |
King of Hi-De-Ho |
Dean Cameron |
Actor |
25-Dec-1962 |
|
Spicoli on Fast Times TV |
Twink Caplan |
Actor |
25-Dec-1947 |
|
Look Who's Talking |
Gerhard Casper |
Educator |
25-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1992-2000 |
Carlos Castaneda |
Author |
25-Dec-1925 |
27-Apr-1998 |
The Teachings of Don Juan |
Louis Chevrolet |
Auto Racing |
25-Dec-1878 |
6-Jun-1941 |
Designed the first Chevrolet |
Helena Christensen |
Model |
25-Dec-1968 |
|
Danish model, dates rock stars |
Marguerite Churchill |
Actor |
25-Dec-1910 |
9-Jan-2000 |
The Big Trail |
Clark Clifford |
Government |
25-Dec-1906 |
10-Oct-1998 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1968-69 |
Dani Crayne |
Actor |
25-Dec-1934 |
|
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend |
Quentin Crisp |
Actor |
25-Dec-1908 |
21-Nov-1999 |
The Naked Civil Servant |
Larry Csonka |
Football |
25-Dec-1946 |
|
Hall-of-famer Miami Dolphins #39 |
Dido |
Musician |
25-Dec-1971 |
|
No Angel |
E. A. Dupont |
Film Director |
25-Dec-1891 |
12-Dec-1956 |
Piccadilly |
Margaret Early |
Actor |
25-Dec-1919 |
29-Nov-2000 |
Strike Up the Band |
Christian Fennesz |
Electronic Musician |
25-Dec-1962 |
|
Endless Summer |
Frank Ferguson |
Actor |
25-Dec-1899 |
12-Sep-1978 |
Eli Carson on Peyton Place |
Nellie Fox |
Baseball |
25-Dec-1927 |
1-Dec-1975 |
MLB Hall of Famer |
Josh Freese |
Drummer |
25-Dec-1972 |
|
Session drummer |
Patrick Gilmore |
Composer |
25-Dec-1829 |
24-Sep-1892 |
The Father of The American Band |
Nicolas Godin |
Musician |
25-Dec-1969 |
|
Half of the duo Air |
Fernand Gravey |
Actor |
25-Dec-1905 |
2-Nov-1970 |
The King and the Chorus Girl |
Rickey Henderson |
Baseball |
25-Dec-1958 |
|
Man of Steal |
Gerhard Herzberg |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
Conrad Hilton |
Business |
25-Dec-1887 |
3-Jan-1979 |
Founder, Hilton Hotels |
James F. Hoge, Jr. |
Editor |
25-Dec-1935 |
|
Editor of Foreign Affairs |
Nicholas Hope |
Actor |
25-Dec-1958 |
|
Bad Boy Bubby |
Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1876 |
11-Sep-1948 |
Founder of Pakistan |
Mabel King |
Actor |
25-Dec-1932 |
9-Nov-1999 |
What's Happening! |
Gene Lamont |
Baseball |
25-Dec-1946 |
|
Former MLB Manager |
Annie Lennox |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Dec-1954 |
|
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These) |
Oscar Lewis |
Anthropologist |
25-Dec-1914 |
16-Dec-1970 |
Culture of Poverty |
Shane MacGowan |
Musician |
25-Dec-1957 |
|
The Pogues |
Barton MacLane |
Actor |
25-Dec-1902 |
1-Jan-1969 |
Gen. Peterson on I Dream of Jeannie |
Barbara Mandrell |
Country Musician |
25-Dec-1948 |
|
Midnight Oil |
Tony Martin |
Singer |
25-Dec-1913 |
27-Jul-2012 |
There's No Tomorrow |
Bob Martinez |
Politician |
25-Dec-1934 |
|
Governor of Florida, 1987-91 |
Mike Mazurki |
Actor |
25-Dec-1907 |
9-Dec-1990 |
Murder, My Sweet |
Ismail Merchant |
Film/TV Producer |
25-Dec-1936 |
25-May-2005 |
Co-Founder, Merchant Ivory Productions |
Dick Miller |
Actor |
25-Dec-1928 |
|
A Bucket of Blood |
Regina Montoya |
Business |
25-Dec-1953 |
|
CEO of New America Alliance |
Alannah Myles |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Dec-1958 |
|
Black Velvet |
Kid Ory |
Jazz Musician |
25-Dec-1886 |
23-Jan-1973 |
Trombonist, Ory's Creole Jazz Band |
John Peterson |
Politician |
25-Dec-1938 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1997-2007 |
Leo Pfeffer |
Scholar |
25-Dec-1910 |
4-Jun-1993 |
Religious liberty scholar, attorney |
Thomas L. Phillips |
Publisher |
25-Dec-1941 |
|
Phillips Publishing International |
Sam Pollock |
Hockey |
25-Dec-1925 |
15-Aug-2007 |
GM of Montreal Canadiens, 1964-78 |
CCH Pounder |
Actor |
25-Dec-1952 |
|
Claudette on The Shield |
Noel Redding |
Bassist |
25-Dec-1943 |
11-May-2003 |
Bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
Robert L. Ripley |
Curator |
25-Dec-1890 |
27-May-1949 |
Believe It or Not! |
Anne Roiphe |
Author |
25-Dec-1935 |
|
Up the Sandbox! |
Karl Rove |
Government |
25-Dec-1950 |
|
Political Strategist to George W. Bush |
Pete Rugolo |
Composer |
25-Dec-1915 |
16-Oct-2011 |
Jazz and television composer |
Hector Ruiz |
Business |
25-Dec-1945 |
|
CEO of Advanced Micro Devices |
Ernst Ruska |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1906 |
27-May-1988 |
Inventor of the electron microscope |
Anwar Sadat |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1918 |
6-Oct-1981 |
President of Egypt, 1970-81 |
Gary Sandy |
Actor |
25-Dec-1945 |
|
Andy Travis on WKRP |
Hal Scardino |
Actor |
25-Dec-1984 |
|
The Indian in the Cupboard |
Hanna Schygulla |
Actor |
25-Dec-1943 |
|
The Marriage of Maria Braun |
Aleksandr Scriabin |
Composer |
25-Dec-1871 |
14-Apr-1915 |
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire |
Rod Serling |
Author |
25-Dec-1924 |
28-Jun-1975 |
Creator of The Twilight Zone |
Nawaz Sharif |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1949 |
|
Twice Prime Minister of Pakistan |
Sissy Spacek |
Actor |
25-Dec-1949 |
|
Coal Miner's Daughter |
Ken Stabler |
Football |
25-Dec-1945 |
|
Oakland Raiders QB |
Bob Stanley |
Musician |
25-Dec-1964 |
|
Saint Etienne songwriter |
Charlotte von Stein |
Author |
25-Dec-1742 |
6-Jan-1827 |
Friend of Goethe and Schiller |
Gladys Swarthout |
Singer |
25-Dec-1900 |
8-Jul-1969 |
Operatic mezzo-soprano |
Helen Twelvetrees |
Actor |
25-Dec-1908 |
13-Feb-1958 |
The Painted Desert |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1924 |
|
Prime Minister of India, 1998-2004 |
Ismael Valenzuela |
Jockey |
25-Dec-1934 |
2-Sep-2009 |
Winner, 1958 and 1968 Kentucky Derby |
George S. Vest |
Diplomat |
25-Dec-1918 |
|
US Ambassador to the EC, 1981-85 |
Lila Wallace |
Business |
25-Dec-1889 |
8-May-1984 |
Readers Digest co-founder |
Bruce Wasserstein |
Business |
25-Dec-1947 |
14-Oct-2009 |
Wall Street dealmaker |
Maggie Williams |
Government |
25-Dec-1954 |
|
Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff |
Stuart Wilson |
Actor |
25-Dec-1946 |
|
Death and the Maiden |
Adolf Windaus |
Chemist |
25-Dec-1876 |
9-Jun-1959 |
Investigated cholesterol, Vitamin D |