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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alois Alzheimer
Doctor
14-Jun-1864 19-Dec-1915 Alzheimer's Disease
V. C. Andrews
Author
6-Jun-1923 19-Dec-1986 Flowers in the Attic
Vitus Bering
Explorer
1681 19-Dec-1741 Danish navigator in the Bering Sea
James Bevel
Activist
19-Oct-1936 19-Dec-2008 Civil rights activist, convicted of incest
John Bigelow
Author
25-Nov-1817 19-Dec-1911 Ambassador to France, memoirist
Emily Brontë
Novelist
30-Jul-1818 19-Dec-1848 Wuthering Heights
Herbert C. Brown
Chemist
22-May-1912 19-Dec-2004 Discovered organoboranes
Prentiss M. Brown
Politician
18-Jun-1889 19-Dec-1973 US Senator from Michigan, 1936-43
James Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie
Government
12-Apr-1812 19-Dec-1860 Governor-General of India
Juan Bautista de Anza
Explorer
Jul-1736 19-Dec-1788 Spanish explorer
Dock Ellis
Baseball
11-Mar-1945 19-Dec-2008 Pitched a no-hitter on LSD
Vincent Gigante
Criminal
29-Mar-1928 19-Dec-2005 Mafia boss, headed the Genovese family
Lincoln Gordon
Diplomat
10-Sep-1913 19-Dec-2009 US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66
John Parker Hale
Politician
31-Mar-1806 19-Dec-1873 Anti-slavery US Senator from NH
Ronald Howard
Actor
7-Apr-1918 19-Dec-1996 Sherlock Holmes
Duncan Lamont
Actor
17-Jun-1918 19-Dec-1978 The Golden Coach
Hope Lange
Actor
28-Nov-1931 19-Dec-2003 Peyton Place
Paul Langevin
Physicist
23-Jan-1872 19-Dec-1946 Studied piezoelectricity
John Lindsay
Politician
24-Nov-1921 19-Dec-2000 Mayor of New York City, 1966-73
Desmond Llewelyn
Actor
12-Sep-1914 19-Dec-1999 "Q" in James Bond films
Dwight Macdonald
Critic
24-Mar-1906 19-Dec-1982 Against the American Grain
Michel Magne
Musician
20-Mar-1930 19-Dec-1984 Tropical Fantasy
Marcello Mastroianni
Actor
28-Sep-1924 19-Dec-1996 The Pizza Triangle
Robert A. Millikan
Physicist
22-Mar-1868 19-Dec-1953 Determined the charge of an electron
Francis P. Murphy
Politician
16-Aug-1877 19-Dec-1958 Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41
Michael Oakeshott
Philosopher
11-Dec-1901 19-Dec-1990 Rationalism in Politics
Kim Peek
Oddity
11-Nov-1951 19-Dec-2009 Inspiration for Raymond in Rain Man
Nellie Ross
Politician
29-Nov-1876 19-Dec-1977 First woman elected Governor in America
Pops Staples
Guitarist
28-Dec-1915 19-Dec-2000 Blues guitarist
Balfour Stewart
Physicist
1-Nov-1828 19-Dec-1887 Studied magnetism, radiant heat
Bayard Taylor
Author
11-Jan-1825 19-Dec-1878 Europe seen with Knapsack
Frederick Terman
Scientist
7-Jun-1900 19-Dec-1982 Stanford Research Park
Norman Thomas
Activist
20-Nov-1884 19-Dec-1968 American Socialist Party
Jacques Tourneur
Film Director
12-Nov-1904 19-Dec-1977 Original 1942 Cat People
Les Tremayne
Radio Personality
16-Apr-1913 19-Dec-2003 Veteran of 30,000 radio broadcasts
J. M. W. Turner
Painter
23-Apr-1775 19-Dec-1851 Romanticist English lanscape painter
Pope Urban V
Religion
1309 19-Dec-1370 Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1362-70
Sam Wanamaker
Actor
14-Jun-1919 19-Dec-1993 Rebuilt Globe Theatre
Harold Watkinson
Politician
25-Jan-1910 19-Dec-1995 UK Minister of Defence, 1959-62


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