| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Greeley Abbot |
Astronomer |
31-May-1872 |
17-Dec-1973 |
Solar energy |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wally Butts |
Football |
7-Feb-1905 |
17-Dec-1973 |
UGA Head Coach, 1939-60 |
| 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 |
| Otto Graham |
Football |
6-Dec-1921 |
17-Dec-2003 |
NFL Hall of Famer |
| 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 |
| Andrew Jacobs, Sr. |
Politician |
22-Feb-1906 |
17-Dec-1992 |
Congressman from Indiana, 1949-51 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lizette Woodworth Reese |
Poet |
9-Jan-1856 |
17-Dec-1935 |
A Handful of Lavendar |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
Novelist |
13-Jun-1893 |
17-Dec-1957 |
Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels |
| Lewis C. Solmon |
Economist |
17-Jul-1942 |
17-Dec-2007 |
Education reformer |
| 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 |
