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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Harry Beaumont
Film Director
10-Feb-1888 22-Dec-1966 The Broadway Melody
Samuel Beckett
Playwright
13-May-1906 22-Dec-1989 Waiting for Godot
Maximilien de Béthune
Aristocrat
13-Dec-1560 22-Dec-1641 Duc de Sully, confidant of Henri IV
Franz Boas
Anthropologist
9-Jul-1858 22-Dec-1942 Father of American Anthropology
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Religion
15-Jul-1850 22-Dec-1917 Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
Lansana Conté
Head of State
c. 1934 22-Dec-2008 President of Guinea, 1984-2008
Henry Cotton
Golf
26-Jan-1907 22-Dec-1987 Won the British Open three times
Walter Damrosch
Conductor
30-Jan-1862 22-Dec-1950 Conductor, popularizer of music
Don DeFore
Actor
25-Aug-1913 22-Dec-1993 Mr. B. on Hazel
George Eliot
Novelist
22-Nov-1819 22-Dec-1880 Silas Marner
Gilda Gray
Dancer
24-Oct-1901 22-Dec-1959 The Shimmy Queen
Arvid Harnack
Spy
24-May-1901 22-Dec-1942 Hanged by the Nazis for espionage
Charles K. Harris
Songwriter
1-May-1865 22-Dec-1930 After The Ball
Desmond Hoyte
Head of State
9-Mar-1929 22-Dec-2002 President of Guyana, 1985-92
Rachel Jackson
First Lady
Jun-1767 22-Dec-1828 Wife of US President Andrew Jackson
Robert Keith
Actor
10-Feb-1896 22-Dec-1966 Guys and Dolls
Harry Langdon
Actor
15-Jun-1884 22-Dec-1944 The Strong Man
Georg Luger
Inventor
6-Mar-1849 22-Dec-1923 Invented the Luger pistol
Alexander Mackendrick
Film Director
8-Sep-1912 22-Dec-1993 The Sweet Smell of Success
Connie McCready
Politician
21-Aug-1921 22-Dec-2000 Mayor of Portland Oregon, 1979-81
Butterfly McQueen
Actor
7-Jan-1911 22-Dec-1995 Gone with the Wind
James Edward Meade
Economist
23-Jun-1907 22-Dec-1995 Theory of International Economic Policy
Dwight L. Moody
Religion
5-Feb-1837 22-Dec-1899 Revivalist, founder Northfield Mt. Hermon
Jose Maria Morelos
Military
30-Sep-1765 22-Dec-1815 Mexico's war for independence
Otto Neurath
Sociologist
10-Dec-1882 22-Dec-1945 Vienna Circle positivist
Beatrix Potter
Artist
28-Jul-1866 22-Dec-1943 Peter Rabbit
Philip Rahv
Critic
10-Mar-1908 22-Dec-1973 Co-Founder, Partisan Review
Daniel R. Raichel
Scientist
1935 22-Dec-2006 Acoustics expert
Ma Rainey
Singer
26-Apr-1886 22-Dec-1939 The mother of the blues
Théodore Rousseau
Painter
15-Apr-1812 22-Dec-1867 French landscape painter
Josef von Sternberg
Film Director
29-May-1894 22-Dec-1969 The Last Command
Joe Strummer
Musician
21-Aug-1952 22-Dec-2002 Lead singer of The Clash
Alice Terry
Actor
24-Jul-1899 22-Dec-1987 Scaramouche
Michelle Thomas
Actor
23-Sep-1969 22-Dec-1998 Myra on Family Matters
Wallace Thurman
Author
16-Aug-1902 22-Dec-1934 The Blacker the Berry
Kenneth Tobey
Actor
23-Mar-1917 22-Dec-2002 Chuck Martin on Whirlybirds
Marvin Wachman
Educator
24-Mar-1917 22-Dec-2007 Temple University President, 1973-83
Henry Watterson
Journalist
16-Feb-1840 22-Dec-1921 Founder of Louisville Courier-Journal
Nathanael West
Author
17-Oct-1903 22-Dec-1940 The Day of the Locust
Thomas D. White
Military
6-Aug-1901 22-Dec-1965 USAF Chief of Staff, 1957-61
William Hyde Wollaston
Chemist
6-Aug-1766 22-Dec-1828 Discovered palladium, rhodium
Gridley Wright
Religion
19-Jan-1934 22-Dec-1979 Shiva Lila cult founder
Darryl F. Zanuck
Film/TV Producer
5-Sep-1902 22-Dec-1979 Ran 20th Century Fox, 1935-71


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