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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Babur
Royalty
14-Feb-1483 26-Dec-1530 Mughal Emperor
Jack Benny
Actor
14-Feb-1894 26-Dec-1974 The Jack Benny Show
Lennox Berkeley
Composer
12-May-1903 26-Dec-1989 Stabat Mater
Salvador Jorge Blanco
Head of State
5-Jul-1926 26-Dec-2010 President of Dominican Republic, 1982-86
Dennis Brutus
Poet
28-Nov-1924 26-Dec-2009 Sirens, Knuckles and Boots
George Dangerfield
Historian
28-Oct-1904 26-Dec-1986 The Strange Death of Liberal England
Melvil Dewey
Curator
10-Dec-1851 26-Dec-1931 Dewey Decimal System
John Diebold
Author
8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation
Robert Emhardt
Actor
24-Jul-1914 26-Dec-1994 The Intruder
Gerald Ford
Head of State
14-Jul-1913 26-Dec-2006 38th US President, 1974-77
Dian Fossey
Anthropologist
16-Jan-1932 26-Dec-1985 Gorillas in the Mist
James Gadsden
Military
15-May-1788 26-Dec-1858 Gadsden Purchase
Leo Gordon
Actor
2-Dec-1922 26-Dec-2000 Riot in Cell Block 11
Ivor Gurney
Poet
28-Aug-1890 26-Dec-1937 War's Embers
William Haines
Actor
2-Jan-1900 26-Dec-1973 Hollywood's first openly gay leading man
Doug Harvey
Hockey
19-Dec-1924 26-Dec-1989 NHL Hall of Famer
Hurd Hatfield
Actor
7-Dec-1917 26-Dec-1998 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gayelord Hauser
Author
1895 26-Dec-1984 Look Younger, Live Longer
Howard Hawks
Film Director
30-May-1896 26-Dec-1977 Rio Bravo
Nigel Hawthorne
Actor
5-Apr-1929 26-Dec-2001 The Madness of King George
Claude-Adrien Helvétius
Philosopher
26-Jan-1715 26-Dec-1771 De l'Esprit
Kin Hubbard
Cartoonist
1-Sep-1868 26-Dec-1930 Abe Martin of Brown County
Paul B. Johnson, Sr.
Politician
23-Mar-1880 26-Dec-1943 Governor of Mississippi, 1940-43
Sylva Koscina
Actor
22-Aug-1933 26-Dec-1994 Bride of Hercules
Elsa Lanchester
Actor
28-Oct-1902 26-Dec-1986 Bride of Frankenstein
Paul Landres
Film Director
21-Aug-1912 26-Dec-2001 B-Movie and television director
William Leonard Langer
Historian
16-Mar-1896 26-Dec-1977 Our Vichy Gamble
John Loder
Actor
3-Jan-1898 26-Dec-1988 Sabotage
Robert Lowery
Actor
17-Oct-1913 26-Dec-1971 The Mummy's Ghost
Teena Marie
Singer/Songwriter
5-Mar-1956 26-Dec-2010 White soul singer/songwriter
Curtis Mayfield
Musician
3-Jun-1942 26-Dec-1999 Superfly soundtrack
Jeff Morrow
Actor
13-Jan-1907 26-Dec-1993 This Island Earth
Kerry Packer
Business
17-Dec-1937 26-Dec-2005 Richest man in Australia
Kenneth S. Pitzer
Chemist
6-Jan-1914 26-Dec-1997 President of Rice University, 1961-68
JonBenét Ramsey
Victim
6-Aug-1990 26-Dec-1996 6-year-old murdered pageant winner
Frederic Remington
Sculptor
4-Oct-1861 26-Dec-1909 The Bronco Buster
Jason Robards
Actor
26-Jul-1922 26-Dec-2000 All The President's Men
Vincent Schiavelli
Actor
10-Nov-1948 26-Dec-2005 Character actor and cookbook author
Heinrich Schliemann
Archaeologist
6-Jan-1822 26-Dec-1890 Discoverer of ancient Troy
David Taylor
Politician
22-Aug-1946 26-Dec-2009 British MP, North West Leicestershire
Erich Topp
Military
2-Jul-1914 26-Dec-2005 World War II U-Boat commander
Harry S. Truman
Head of State
8-May-1884 26-Dec-1972 33rd US President, 1945-53
Preston Tucker
Business
21-Sep-1903 26-Dec-1956 The car of tomorrow -- today
Max M. Warburg
Business
5-Jun-1867 26-Dec-1946 M. M. Warburg & Company
Weegee
Photographer
12-Jun-1899 26-Dec-1968 Crime photographer
Reggie White
Football
19-Dec-1961 26-Dec-2004 NFL's Minister of Defense
John Wilkes
Politician
17-Oct-1725 26-Dec-1797 Colorful London radical
Nikolai Yazykov
Poet
16-Mar-1803 26-Dec-1846 Russian Golden Age poet
Huang Yong
Criminal
c. 1974 26-Dec-2003 Prolific Chinese serial killer


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