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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Paul Arizin
Basketball
9-Mar-1928 12-Dec-2006 Philadelphia Warriors
Val Avery
Actor
14-Jul-1924 12-Dec-2009 The Anderson Tapes
Tallulah Bankhead
Actor
31-Jan-1902 12-Dec-1968 Lifeboat
Stephen Báthory
Royalty
27-Sep-1533 12-Dec-1586 King of Poland, 1575-86
Anne Baxter
Actor
7-May-1923 12-Dec-1985 The Razor's Edge
Peter Boyle
Actor
18-Oct-1935 12-Dec-2006 Young Frankenstein
Robert Browning
Poet
7-May-1812 12-Dec-1889 Prominent Victorian poet and playwright
John Bernard Burke
Historian
5-Jan-1814 12-Dec-1892 Burke's Peerage
Carloman
Royalty
? 12-Dec-884 AD King of France, 882-84
John Paddy Carstairs
Film Director
11-May-1910 12-Dec-1970 The Saint in London
Jack Cassidy
Actor
5-Mar-1927 12-Dec-1976 The Eiger Sanction
Lawton Chiles
Politician
3-Apr-1930 12-Dec-1998 Florida Governor and Senator
Carolyn Craig
Actor
27-Oct-1934 12-Dec-1970 House on Haunted Hill
John H. Crimmins
Diplomat
26-Nov-1919 12-Dec-2007 US Ambassador to Brazil, 1973-78
Brad Dexter
Actor
9-Apr-1917 12-Dec-2002 The Magnificent Seven
Avery Cardinal Dulles
Religion
24-Aug-1918 12-Dec-2008 Fordham Professor, Roman Catholic Cardinal
E. A. Dupont
Film Director
25-Dec-1891 12-Dec-1956 Piccadilly
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Actor
23-May-1883 12-Dec-1939 The Thief of Baghdad
Edwin Forrest
Actor
9-Mar-1806 12-Dec-1872 19th. c. American actor
D. Carleton Gajdusek
Scientist
9-Sep-1923 12-Dec-2008 Kuru (slow virus infections)
Albrecht von Haller
Doctor
16-Oct-1708 12-Dec-1777 Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani
Joseph Heller
Author
1-May-1923 12-Dec-1999 Catch-22
Theodor Heuss
Head of State
31-Jan-1884 12-Dec-1963 President of Germany, 1949-59
Van Johnson
Actor
25-Aug-1916 12-Dec-2008 The Caine Mutiny
Phil Karlson
Film Director
2-Jul-1908 12-Dec-1985 Walking Tall
Keiko
unspecified
c. 1977 12-Dec-2003 The killer whale from Free Willy
James Kent
Judge
31-Jul-1763 12-Dec-1847 Commentaries on American Law
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Astronomer
4-Jul-1868 12-Dec-1921 Cepheid variable
Ranald MacDougall
Screenwriter
10-Mar-1915 12-Dec-1973 We're No Angels
William H. Mann
Politician
30-Jul-1843 12-Dec-1927 Governor of Virginia, 1910-14
George Montgomery
Actor
29-Aug-1916 12-Dec-2000 Coney Island
Vance Packard
Sociologist
22-May-1914 12-Dec-1996 The Hidden Persuaders
Tassos Papadopoulos
Head of State
7-Jan-1934 12-Dec-2008 President of Cyprus, 2003-08
Raymond Radiguet
Novelist
18-Jun-1903 12-Dec-1923 Le Diable au Corps
David Sarnoff
Business
27-Feb-1891 12-Dec-1971 CEO of RCA, founder of NBC
Raymond P. Shafer
Politician
5-Mar-1917 12-Dec-2006 Governor of Pennsylvania, 1967-71
Alan Shugart
Inventor
27-Sep-1930 12-Dec-2006 SCSI interface
Russell Simpson
Actor
17-Jun-1880 12-Dec-1959 The Grapes of Wrath
Tancred
Military
c. 1075 12-Dec-1112 Leader of the First Crusade
John Thompson
Head of State
10-Nov-1845 12-Dec-1894 Prime Minister of Canada, 1892-94
Allen G. Thurman
Politician
13-Nov-1813 12-Dec-1895 US Senator from Ohio, 1869-81
Ike Turner
Musician
5-Nov-1931 12-Dec-2007 River Deep, Mountain High
Mo Udall
Politician
15-Jun-1922 12-Dec-1998 Congressman from Arizona, 1961-91
Helen Westley
Actor
28-Mar-1875 12-Dec-1942 Death Takes a Holiday




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