| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Harry Beaumont |
Film Director |
10-Feb-1888 |
22-Dec-1966 |
The Broadway Melody |
| Samuel Beckett |
Playwright |
13-May-1906 |
22-Dec-1989 |
Waiting for Godot |
| Maximilien de Béthune |
Aristocrat |
13-Dec-1560 |
22-Dec-1641 |
Duc de Sully, confidant of Henri IV |
| Franz Boas |
Anthropologist |
9-Jul-1858 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Father of American Anthropology |
| St. Frances Xavier Cabrini |
Religion |
15-Jul-1850 |
22-Dec-1917 |
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart |
| Lansana Conté |
Head of State |
c. 1934 |
22-Dec-2008 |
President of Guinea, 1984-2008 |
| Henry Cotton |
Golf |
26-Jan-1907 |
22-Dec-1987 |
Won the British Open three times |
| Walter Damrosch |
Conductor |
30-Jan-1862 |
22-Dec-1950 |
Conductor, popularizer of music |
| Don DeFore |
Actor |
25-Aug-1913 |
22-Dec-1993 |
Mr. B. on Hazel |
| George Eliot |
Novelist |
22-Nov-1819 |
22-Dec-1880 |
Silas Marner |
| Gilda Gray |
Dancer |
24-Oct-1901 |
22-Dec-1959 |
The Shimmy Queen |
| Arvid Harnack |
Spy |
24-May-1901 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Hanged by the Nazis for espionage |
| Charles K. Harris |
Songwriter |
1-May-1865 |
22-Dec-1930 |
After The Ball |
| Desmond Hoyte |
Head of State |
9-Mar-1929 |
22-Dec-2002 |
President of Guyana, 1985-92 |
| Rachel Jackson |
First Lady |
Jun-1767 |
22-Dec-1828 |
Wife of US President Andrew Jackson |
| Robert Keith |
Actor |
10-Feb-1896 |
22-Dec-1966 |
Guys and Dolls |
| Harry Langdon |
Actor |
15-Jun-1884 |
22-Dec-1944 |
The Strong Man |
| Georg Luger |
Inventor |
6-Mar-1849 |
22-Dec-1923 |
Invented the Luger pistol |
| Alexander Mackendrick |
Film Director |
8-Sep-1912 |
22-Dec-1993 |
The Sweet Smell of Success |
| Connie McCready |
Politician |
21-Aug-1921 |
22-Dec-2000 |
Mayor of Portland Oregon, 1979-81 |
| Butterfly McQueen |
Actor |
7-Jan-1911 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Gone with the Wind |
| James Edward Meade |
Economist |
23-Jun-1907 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Theory of International Economic Policy |
| Dwight L. Moody |
Religion |
5-Feb-1837 |
22-Dec-1899 |
Revivalist, founder Northfield Mt. Hermon |
| Jose Maria Morelos |
Military |
30-Sep-1765 |
22-Dec-1815 |
Mexico's war for independence |
| Otto Neurath |
Sociologist |
10-Dec-1882 |
22-Dec-1945 |
Vienna Circle positivist |
| Beatrix Potter |
Artist |
28-Jul-1866 |
22-Dec-1943 |
Peter Rabbit |
| Philip Rahv |
Critic |
10-Mar-1908 |
22-Dec-1973 |
Co-Founder, Partisan Review |
| Daniel R. Raichel |
Scientist |
1935 |
22-Dec-2006 |
Acoustics expert |
| Ma Rainey |
Singer |
26-Apr-1886 |
22-Dec-1939 |
The mother of the blues |
| Théodore Rousseau |
Painter |
15-Apr-1812 |
22-Dec-1867 |
French landscape painter |
| Josef von Sternberg |
Film Director |
29-May-1894 |
22-Dec-1969 |
The Last Command |
| Joe Strummer |
Musician |
21-Aug-1952 |
22-Dec-2002 |
Lead singer of The Clash |
| Alice Terry |
Actor |
24-Jul-1899 |
22-Dec-1987 |
Scaramouche |
| Michelle Thomas |
Actor |
23-Sep-1969 |
22-Dec-1998 |
Myra on Family Matters |
| Wallace Thurman |
Author |
16-Aug-1902 |
22-Dec-1934 |
The Blacker the Berry |
| Kenneth Tobey |
Actor |
23-Mar-1917 |
22-Dec-2002 |
Chuck Martin on Whirlybirds |
| Marvin Wachman |
Educator |
24-Mar-1917 |
22-Dec-2007 |
Temple University President, 1973-83 |
| Henry Watterson |
Journalist |
16-Feb-1840 |
22-Dec-1921 |
Founder of Louisville Courier-Journal |
| Nathanael West |
Author |
17-Oct-1903 |
22-Dec-1940 |
The Day of the Locust |
| Thomas D. White |
Military |
6-Aug-1901 |
22-Dec-1965 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1957-61 |
| William Hyde Wollaston |
Chemist |
6-Aug-1766 |
22-Dec-1828 |
Discovered palladium, rhodium |
| Gridley Wright |
Religion |
19-Jan-1934 |
22-Dec-1979 |
Shiva Lila cult founder |
| Darryl F. Zanuck |
Film/TV Producer |
5-Sep-1902 |
22-Dec-1979 |
Ran 20th Century Fox, 1935-71 |
