| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Hervey Allen |
Poet |
8-Dec-1889 |
28-Dec-1949 |
Ballads of the Border |
| Clarence Day |
Author |
18-Nov-1874 |
28-Dec-1935 |
Life with Father |
| William Demarest |
Actor |
27-Feb-1892 |
28-Dec-1983 |
The Great McGinty |
| Theodore Dreiser |
Novelist |
27-Aug-1871 |
28-Dec-1945 |
An American Tragedy |
| Allan Dwan |
Film Director |
3-Apr-1885 |
28-Dec-1981 |
Sands of Iwo Jima |
| St. Francis de Sales |
Religion |
21-Aug-1567 |
28-Dec-1622 |
Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary |
| Charlotte Greenwood |
Actor |
25-Jun-1890 |
28-Dec-1977 |
Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! |
| Horatio Hale |
Anthropologist |
3-May-1817 |
28-Dec-1896 |
Ethnologist studied polynesia |
| Paul Hindemith |
Composer |
16-Nov-1895 |
28-Dec-1963 |
Mathis der Maler |
| A. J. Liebling |
Journalist |
18-Oct-1904 |
28-Dec-1963 |
The New Yorker |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Historian |
25-Oct-1800 |
28-Dec-1859 |
History of England |
| John D. MacDonald |
Novelist |
24-Jul-1916 |
28-Dec-1986 |
Travis McGee mystery novels |
| Queen Mary II |
Head of State |
30-Apr-1662 |
28-Dec-1694 |
Queen of England 1689-94 |
| Clayton Moore |
Actor |
14-Sep-1914 |
28-Dec-1999 |
The Lone Ranger |
| Jerry Orbach |
Actor |
20-Oct-1935 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order |
| Sam Peckinpah |
Film Director |
21-Feb-1925 |
28-Dec-1984 |
Breakthrough director of ultraviolent film |
| J. Donald Rauth |
Business |
1918 |
28-Dec-2005 |
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1973-83 |
| Maurice Ravel |
Composer |
7-Mar-1875 |
28-Dec-1937 |
Bolero |
| L. Mendel Rivers |
Politician |
28-Sep-1905 |
28-Dec-1970 |
Congressman from South Carolina, 1941-70 |
| Rob Roy |
Criminal |
7-Mar-1671 |
28-Dec-1734 |
War leader of the Gregor clan |
| Johannes Rydberg |
Physicist |
8-Nov-1854 |
28-Dec-1919 |
Rydberg constant |
| William L. Shirer |
Historian |
23-Feb-1904 |
28-Dec-1993 |
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| Gerrit Smith |
Activist |
6-Mar-1797 |
28-Dec-1874 |
Anti-slavery and temperance reformer |
| Susan Sontag |
Author |
16-Jan-1933 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Novelist, critic, intellectual |
| Robert C. Strong |
Diplomat |
29-Sep-1915 |
28-Dec-1999 |
US Ambassador to Iraq, 1963-67 |
| Andrei Tarkovsky |
Film Director |
4-Apr-1932 |
28-Dec-1986 |
Director, Solaris |
| James Van Ness |
Politician |
1808 |
28-Dec-1872 |
Mayor of San Francisco, 1855-56 |
| George Henry White |
Politician |
18-Dec-1852 |
28-Dec-1918 |
Congressman from North Carolina, 1897-1901 |
| James Wilkinson |
Military |
1757 |
28-Dec-1825 |
Duplicitous soldier and adventurer |
| Dennis Wilson |
Musician |
4-Dec-1944 |
28-Dec-1983 |
Founding member of The Beach Boys |
| Edith Wilson |
First Lady |
15-Oct-1872 |
28-Dec-1961 |
Second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson |
| Harry Woods |
Actor |
5-May-1889 |
28-Dec-1968 |
Perpetual Hollywood villain |
