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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles Greeley Abbot
Astronomer
31-May-1872 17-Dec-1973 Solar energy
Eddie Acuff
Actor
3-Jun-1903 17-Dec-1956 Mr. Beasley in Blondie
Rex Allen
Actor
31-Dec-1920 17-Dec-1999 The Arizona Cowboy
Jack Anderson
Columnist
19-Oct-1922 17-Dec-2005 Uncovered CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro
Dana Andrews
Actor
1-Jan-1909 17-Dec-1992 The Best Years of Our Lives
Sammy Baugh
Football
17-Mar-1914 17-Dec-2008 Redskins QB and charter Hall of Famer
Captain Beefheart
Singer
15-Jan-1941 17-Dec-2010 and His Magic Band
John Blatnik
Politician
17-Aug-1911 17-Dec-1991 Congressman from Minnesota, 1947-75
Simón Bolívar
Military
24-Jul-1783 17-Dec-1830 El Libertador
John G. Brady
Politician
25-May-1848 17-Dec-1918 Territorial Governor of Alaska 1897-1906
George Brayton
Inventor
3-Oct-1830 17-Dec-1892 Brayton cycle engine
Wally Butts
Football
7-Feb-1905 17-Dec-1973 UGA Head Coach, 1939-60
Irving Caesar
Songwriter
4-Jul-1895 17-Dec-1996 Tea for Two
Colin Clark
Film/TV Producer
9-Oct-1932 17-Dec-2002 My Week with Marilyn
George N. Craig
Politician
6-Aug-1909 17-Dec-1992 Governor of Indiana, 1953-57
William Barker Cushing
Military
4-Nov-1842 17-Dec-1874 Civil War naval hero
Chris Farley
Comic
15-Feb-1964 17-Dec-1997 Saturday Night Live
Homer S. Ferguson
Politician
25-Feb-1889 17-Dec-1982 US Senator from Michigan, 1943-55
Otto Graham
Football
6-Dec-1921 17-Dec-2003 NFL Hall of Famer
Alaina Reed Hall
Actor
10-Nov-1946 17-Dec-2009 Sesame Street
James Hazeldine
Actor
4-Apr-1947 17-Dec-2002 Mike "Bayleaf" Wilson on London's Burning
Victor Francis Hess
Physicist
24-Jun-1883 17-Dec-1964 Proved cosmic origin of radiation
Harold Holt
Head of State
5-Aug-1908 17-Dec-1967 Prime Minister of Australia, 1966-67
Jerry Hopper
Film Director
29-Jul-1907 17-Dec-1988 The Private War of Major Benson
Kim Jong Il
Head of State
16-Feb-1941 17-Dec-2011 Dictator of North Korea, 1994-2011
Hastings Ismay
Military
21-Jun-1887 17-Dec-1965 Churchill's chief military assistant
Andrew Jacobs, Sr.
Politician
22-Feb-1906 17-Dec-1992 Congressman from Indiana, 1949-51
Jennifer Jones
Actor
2-Mar-1919 17-Dec-2009 The Song of Bernadette
Lord Kelvin
Physicist
26-Jun-1824 17-Dec-1907 Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Leopold II
Royalty
9-Apr-1835 17-Dec-1909 King of Belgium, 1865-1909
Marie Louise
Royalty
12-Dec-1791 17-Dec-1847 Empress of France
Hank Luisetti
Basketball
16-Jun-1916 17-Dec-2002 Invented one-handed shot
Janet Margolin
Actor
25-Jul-1943 17-Dec-1993 Take the Money and Run
Edward B. Marks
Songwriter
28-Nov-1865 17-Dec-1945 My Mother Was a Lady
Thomas Mitchell
Actor
11-Jul-1892 17-Dec-1962 Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
Lewis Henry Morgan
Anthropologist
21-Nov-1818 17-Dec-1881 Ancient Society
Dan O'Bannon
Screenwriter
30-Sep-1946 17-Dec-2009 Alien, Total Recall
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Poet
9-Jan-1856 17-Dec-1935 A Handful of Lavendar
Lina Romay
Actor
16-Jan-1919 17-Dec-2010 Adventure
Dorothy L. Sayers
Novelist
13-Jun-1893 17-Dec-1957 Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels
Noble Sissle
Composer
10-Jul-1889 17-Dec-1975 Shuffle Along
Lewis C. Solmon
Economist
17-Jul-1942 17-Dec-2007 Education reformer
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Military
9-Jul-1897 17-Dec-1989 Victory Program
C. Vann Woodward
Historian
13-Nov-1908 17-Dec-1999 The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Marguerite Yourcenar
Novelist
8-Jun-1903 17-Dec-1987 Mémoires d'Hadrien


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