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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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