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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Amy Acker
Actor
5-Dec-1976   Fred on Angel
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Head of State
5-Dec-1927   King of Thailand
Rodney Alexander
Politician
5-Dec-1946   Congressman, Louisiana 5th
Gary Allan
Country Musician
5-Dec-1967   Smoke Rings in the Dark
Ross Bagley
Actor
5-Dec-1988   Nicky Banks on Fresh Prince
Karl Blake
Musician
5-Dec-1956   Imp of the perverse
Morgan Brittany
Actor
5-Dec-1951   Katherine Wentworth on Dallas
James Lee Burke
Novelist
5-Dec-1936   Dave Robicheaux series
Adolph Caesar
Actor
5-Dec-1933 6-Mar-1986 A Soldier's Story
J. J. Cale
Songwriter
5-Dec-1938   Wrote Cocaine and After Midnight
José Carreras
Singer
5-Dec-1946   The third tenor
Margaret Cho
Comic
5-Dec-1968   Loud-mouthed standup comic
Carl Cori
Scientist
5-Dec-1896 20-Oct-1984 Catalytic conversion of glycogen
George Armstrong Custer
Military
5-Dec-1839 25-Jun-1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn
Joan Didion
Author
5-Dec-1934   Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Walt Disney
Business
5-Dec-1901 15-Dec-1966 Founder of Disney empire
James J. Duderstadt
Educator
5-Dec-1942   President, University of Michigan, 1988-96
John C. Favalora
Religion
5-Dec-1935   Catholic Archbishop of Miami
Wenche Foss
Actor
5-Dec-1917 28-Mar-2011 Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Arnold Gingrich
Journalist
5-Dec-1903 9-Jul-1976 Founder of Esquire magazine
Sheldon Glashow
Physicist
5-Dec-1932   Electroweak Theory
Bruce Golding
Head of State
5-Dec-1947   Prime Minister of Jamaica
William F. Goodling
Politician
5-Dec-1927   Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1975-2001
James Guthrie
Politician
5-Dec-1792 3-Mar-1869 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1853-57
Peter Hansen
Actor
5-Dec-1921   Lee Baldwin on General Hospital
Shalom Harlow
Model
5-Dec-1973   Face of Chanel's Coco fragrance
Margaret Hayes
Actor
5-Dec-1916 26-Jan-1977 Blackboard Jungle
Johannes Heesters
Actor
5-Dec-1903 24-Dec-2011 Dutch/German film actor
Werner Heisenberg
Physicist
5-Dec-1901 1-Feb-1976 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Stuart Heisler
Film Director
5-Dec-1896 21-Aug-1979 The Glass Key
Henry M. Hoyt
Attorney
5-Dec-1856 20-Nov-1910 US Solicitor General, 1903-09
Nunnally Johnson
Screenwriter
5-Dec-1897 25-Mar-1977 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Odette Joyeux
Actor
5-Dec-1914 26-Aug-2000 Love Story
Pope Julius II
Religion
5-Dec-1443 21-Feb-1513 Roman Catholic Pope, 1503-13
Moshe Katsav
Head of State
5-Dec-1945   President of Israel, 2000-07
Jeroen Krabbé
Actor
5-Dec-1944   The Discovery of Heaven
Rose Wilder Lane
Author
5-Dec-1886 30-Oct-1968 The Discovery of Freedom
Fritz Lang
Film Director
5-Dec-1890 2-Aug-1976 Metropolis
Jim Leavitt
Football
5-Dec-1956   Head Coach, U. of South Florida
Jim Messina
Musician
5-Dec-1947   Loggins and Messina
Art Monk
Football
5-Dec-1957   Former Washington Redskins WR
Alvy Moore
Actor
5-Dec-1921 4-May-1997 Hank Kimball on Green Acres
Grace Moore
Singer
5-Dec-1898 26-Jan-1947 One Night of Love
Frankie Muñiz
Actor
5-Dec-1985   Malcolm in the Middle
Connie Newton
Actor
5-Dec-1959   Elizabeth Bradford on Eight Is Enough
Nivek Ogre
Musician
5-Dec-1962   Vocals, Spooky Horn for Skinny Puppy
Jessica Paré
Actor
5-Dec-1982   Lost and Delirious
Paula Patton
Actor
5-Dec-1975   Deja Vu
Józef Pilsudski
Military
5-Dec-1867 12-May-1935 Military dictator of Poland, 1926-35
Jim Plunkett
Football
5-Dec-1947   Superbowl MVP
Cecil Powell
Physicist
5-Dec-1903 9-Aug-1969 Discovered the pi-meson
Otto Preminger
Film Director
5-Dec-1906 23-Apr-1986 Anatomy of a Murder
Emeric Pressburger
Film Director
5-Dec-1902 5-Feb-1988 Black Narcissus
Lynne Ramsay
Film Director
5-Dec-1969   Morvern Cellar
Stanley R. Resor
Government
5-Dec-1917 17-Apr-2012 Secretary of the Army, 1965-71
Little Richard
Musician
5-Dec-1932   Tutti Frutti
Eurith D. Rivers
Politician
5-Dec-1895 11-Jun-1967 Governor of Georgia, 1937-41
Christina Rossetti
Poet
5-Dec-1830 29-Dec-1894 Goblin Market and Other Poems
Thomas J. Rusk
Politician
5-Dec-1803 29-Jul-1857 US Senator, committed suicide
Johnny Rzeznik
Musician
5-Dec-1965   Goo Goo Dolls frontman
Gershom Scholem
Historian
5-Dec-1897 21-Feb-1982 Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah
Jerome Smucker
Business
5-Dec-1858 19-Mar-1948 Founder of J. M. Smucker Company
Arnold Sommerfeld
Physicist
5-Dec-1868 26-Apr-1951 Fine-structure constant
Anastasio Somoza
Head of State
5-Dec-1925 17-Sep-1980 Dictator of Nicaragua
Nick Stahl
Actor
5-Dec-1979   Carnivàle
Monteagle Stearns
Diplomat
5-Dec-1924   US Ambassador to Greece, 1981-85
James Thornton
Songwriter
5-Dec-1861 27-Jul-1938 When You Were Sweet Sixteen
Strom Thurmond
Politician
5-Dec-1902 26-Jun-2003 US Senator from South Carolina, 1954-2003
Jim Tressel
Football
5-Dec-1952   Former Head Coach, Ohio State
Calvin Trillin
Comic
5-Dec-1935   Humorist
Martin Van Buren
Head of State
5-Dec-1782 24-Jul-1862 8th US President, 1837-41
Lanny Wadkins
Golf
5-Dec-1949   Winner, 1977 PGA Championship
Marion Zioncheck
Politician
5-Dec-1901 7-Aug-1936 Congressman, committed suicide


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