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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hervey Allen
Poet
8-Dec-1889 28-Dec-1949 Ballads of the Border
Katharine Byron
Politician
25-Oct-1903 28-Dec-1976 Congresswoman from Maryland, 1941-43
Howard Caine
Actor
2-Jan-1928 28-Dec-1993 Maj. Hochstetter on Hogan's Heroes
Stoyan Christowe
Author
1-Sep-1898 28-Dec-1995 Heroes and Assassins
Clarence Day
Author
18-Nov-1874 28-Dec-1935 Life with Father
William Demarest
Actor
27-Feb-1892 28-Dec-1983 The Great McGinty
Jimmy Demaret
Golf
24-May-1910 28-Dec-1983 Winner of three Masters Tournaments
Terry Dolan
Activist
1950 28-Dec-1986 Conservative activist
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
Marjorie Fielding
Actor
17-Feb-1892 28-Dec-1956 English stage actress
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
Freddie King
Guitarist
3-Sep-1934 28-Dec-1976 Blues guitarist, The Texas Cannonball
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
Kiel Martin
Actor
26-Jul-1944 28-Dec-1990 J. D. LaRue on Hill Street Blues
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
Henry F. Schricker
Politician
30-Aug-1883 28-Dec-1966 Twice Governor of Indiana
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
Max Steiner
Composer
10-May-1888 28-Dec-1971 Gone With the Wind
Kaye Stevens
Singer
21-Jul-1932 28-Dec-2011 Ruckus at the Riviera
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 Solaris
Billy Taylor
Jazz Musician
24-Jul-1921 28-Dec-2010 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
James Van Ness
Politician
1808 28-Dec-1872 Mayor of San Francisco, 1855-56
Victor Emmanuel III
Royalty
11-Nov-1869 28-Dec-1947 King of Italy, 1900-46
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, 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




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