| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Johnny Ace |
Singer/Songwriter |
9-Jun-1929 |
25-Dec-1954 |
R&B star, shot himself |
| Pope Adrian I |
Religion |
? |
25-Dec-795 AD |
Roman Catholic Pope, 772-95 |
| Phil Alvarado |
Boxing |
18-Jan-1919 |
25-Dec-2003 |
Greatest amateur boxer ever |
| Leona Anderson |
Actor |
3-Apr-1885 |
25-Dec-1973 |
House on Haunted Hill |
| Warren R. Austin |
Politician |
12-Nov-1877 |
25-Dec-1962 |
US Senator from Vermont, 1931-46 |
| Derek Bailey |
Guitarist |
29-Jan-1932 |
25-Dec-2005 |
Uncompromising guitar improvisationist |
| Newton D. Baker |
Politician |
3-Dec-1871 |
25-Dec-1937 |
US Secretary of War, 1916-21 |
| Benny Binion |
Business |
20-Nov-1904 |
25-Dec-1989 |
Founder, World Series of Poker |
| Joan Blondell |
Actor |
30-Aug-1906 |
25-Dec-1979 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Lee Bowman |
Actor |
28-Dec-1914 |
25-Dec-1979 |
Smash-Up |
| James Brown |
Singer |
3-May-1933 |
25-Dec-2006 |
Purportedly felt good |
| Karel Capek |
Author |
9-Jan-1890 |
25-Dec-1938 |
R.U.R. |
| Nicolae Ceausescu |
Head of State |
26-Jan-1918 |
25-Dec-1989 |
Dictator of Romania |
| Charlie Chaplin |
Actor |
16-Apr-1889 |
25-Dec-1977 |
Silent film comedian |
| Frankie Darro |
Actor |
22-Dec-1917 |
25-Dec-1976 |
The Phantom Empire |
| Samuel de Champlain |
Explorer |
1567 |
25-Dec-1635 |
Namesake of Lake Champlain |
| Dietrich Eckart |
Playwright |
23-Mar-1868 |
25-Dec-1923 |
Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend |
| W. C. Fields |
Comic |
29-Jan-1880 |
25-Dec-1946 |
The Bank Dick |
| Eugen Goldstein |
Physicist |
5-Sep-1850 |
25-Dec-1930 |
Cathode rays |
| Sir Matthew Hale |
Judge |
1-Nov-1609 |
25-Dec-1676 |
Lord Chief Justice of England |
| Ismet Inonu |
Government |
25-Sep-1884 |
25-Dec-1973 |
President, Prime Minister of Turkey |
| Emmanuel Levinas |
Philosopher |
12-Jan-1906 |
25-Dec-1995 |
Totality and Infinity |
| Ralph Linton |
Anthropologist |
27-Feb-1893 |
25-Dec-1953 |
The Study of Man |
| Otto Loewi |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1873 |
25-Dec-1961 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| Billy Martin |
Baseball |
16-May-1928 |
25-Dec-1989 |
NY Yankees manager, fired 5 times |
| Dean Martin |
Singer |
7-Jun-1917 |
25-Dec-1995 |
Member of Rat Pack |
| Nicholas Mavroules |
Politician |
1-Nov-1929 |
25-Dec-2003 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1979-93 |
| Joan Miró |
Painter |
20-Apr-1893 |
25-Dec-1983 |
The most surrealist of them all |
| Birgit Nilsson |
Singer |
17-May-1918 |
25-Dec-2005 |
Swedish operatic soprano |
| Nicola Paone |
Business |
5-Oct-1915 |
25-Dec-2003 |
Restaurateur, Italian Troubadour |
| Richard Paul |
Actor |
6-Jun-1940 |
25-Dec-1998 |
Born to play Jerry Falwell |
| Denver Pyle |
Actor |
11-May-1920 |
25-Dec-1997 |
Jesse Duke on Dukes of Hazzard |
| Willard Van Orman Quine |
Philosopher |
25-Jun-1908 |
25-Dec-2000 |
Two Dogmas of Empiricism |
| Nicolas Slonimsky |
Lexicographer |
27-Apr-1894 |
25-Dec-1995 |
Preeminent musicologist |
| Charles W. Socarides |
Activist |
24-Jan-1922 |
25-Dec-2005 |
Deprogrammer of homosexuals |
| Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
