| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Robert Adler |
Physicist |
4-Dec-1913 |
15-Feb-2007 |
Invented wireless remote control |
| Stew Albert |
Activist |
4-Dec-1939 |
30-Jan-2006 |
Founding Yippie |
| Barbara Amiel |
Journalist |
4-Dec-1940 |
|
Director of The Spectator |
| Fred Armisen |
Actor |
4-Dec-1966 |
|
Saturday Night Live |
| Lloyd Bacon |
Film Director |
4-Dec-1889 |
15-Nov-1955 |
Knute Rockne All American |
| Max Baer, Jr. |
Actor |
4-Dec-1937 |
|
Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies |
| Albert Bandura |
Psychologist |
4-Dec-1925 |
|
Bobo doll experiments |
| Tyra Banks |
Model |
4-Dec-1973 |
|
America's Next Top Model |
| Michael Bates |
Actor |
4-Dec-1920 |
11-Jan-1978 |
A Clockwork Orange |
| Steven Jesse Bernstein |
Poet |
4-Dec-1950 |
22-Oct-1991 |
Grunge poet and punk rocker |
| Kayla Blake |
Actor |
4-Dec-1963 |
|
Kim on Sports Night |
| Stephen W. Bosworth |
Diplomat |
4-Dec-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000 |
| Pappy Boyington |
Military |
4-Dec-1912 |
11-Jan-1988 |
World War II flying ace |
| Jeff Bridges |
Actor |
4-Dec-1949 |
|
The Dude abides |
| Orlando Brown |
Actor |
4-Dec-1987 |
|
That's So Raven |
| Sergey Bubka |
Track and Field |
4-Dec-1963 |
|
Pole vaulter |
| Horst Buchholz |
Actor |
4-Dec-1933 |
3-Mar-2003 |
The Magnificent Seven |
| Jesse Burkett |
Baseball |
4-Dec-1868 |
27-May-1953 |
The Crab, MLB Hall of Famer |
| Samuel Butler |
Author |
4-Dec-1835 |
18-Jun-1902 |
Erewheon |
| Thomas Carlyle |
Historian |
4-Dec-1795 |
5-Feb-1881 |
The French Revolution |
| Edith Cavell |
Victim |
4-Dec-1865 |
12-Oct-1915 |
British nurse, shot by the Germans |
| Ronnie Corbett |
Comic |
4-Dec-1930 |
|
The Two Ronnies |
| John Cotton |
Religion |
4-Dec-1585 |
23-Dec-1652 |
First Church of Boston |
| Deanna Durbin |
Actor |
4-Dec-1921 |
|
It Started with Eve |
| Francisco Franco |
Head of State |
4-Dec-1892 |
20-Nov-1975 |
Spanish Generalissimo, 1939-75 |
| Victor French |
Actor |
4-Dec-1934 |
15-Jun-1989 |
Highway to Heaven |
| Mick Garris |
Film Director |
4-Dec-1951 |
|
Sleepwalkers |
| Gwilym Lloyd George |
Politician |
4-Dec-1894 |
14-Feb-1967 |
UK Home Secretary, 1954-57 |
| Wally George |
TV Personality |
4-Dec-1931 |
5-Oct-2003 |
Abusive conservative spectacle |
| Gary Gilmore |
Criminal |
4-Dec-1940 |
17-Jan-1977 |
Executed by firing squad in Utah |
| Inder Kumar Gujral |
Head of State |
4-Dec-1919 |
|
Prime Minister of India, 1997-98 |
| Hamilton Harty |
Conductor |
4-Dec-1879 |
19-Feb-1941 |
Principal Conductor, The Hallé, 1920-34 |
| Alfred D. Hershey |
Scientist |
4-Dec-1908 |
22-May-1997 |
Molecular structure of viral genes |
| George A. Hormel |
Business |
4-Dec-1860 |
5-Jun-1946 |
Founder of Hormel Foods Corporation |
| Álex de la Iglesia |
Film Director |
4-Dec-1965 |
|
The Oxford Murders |
| Jay-Z |
Rapper |
4-Dec-1969 |
|
Can I Get A... |
| Buck Jones |
Actor |
4-Dec-1889 |
30-Nov-1942 |
Cowboy actor died at Cocoanut Grove |
| Gemma Jones |
Actor |
4-Dec-1942 |
|
The Duchess of Duke Street |
| Charles Keating |
Business |
4-Dec-1923 |
|
Morality crusader, white-collar swindler |
| Bernard King |
Basketball |
4-Dec-1956 |
|
Former NBA small forward |
| Munro Leaf |
Author |
4-Dec-1905 |
21-Dec-1976 |
The Story of Ferdinand |
| Lauren London |
Actor |
4-Dec-1984 |
|
New New in ATL |
| Wink Martindale |
Game Show Host |
4-Dec-1934 |
|
Tic-Tac-Dough |
| William G. Mays |
Business |
4-Dec-1945 |
|
Mays Chemical |
| William McGurn |
Government |
4-Dec-1958 |
|
Chief speechwriter for Bush, 2005-08 |
| Verne Meisner |
Musician |
4-Dec-1938 |
10-Jun-2005 |
Wisconsin's Polka King |
| Grace Napolitano |
Politician |
4-Dec-1936 |
|
Congresswoman, California 38th |
| Chelsea Noble |
Actor |
4-Dec-1964 |
|
Kate Macdonald on Growing Pains |
| Charles Norris |
Government |
4-Dec-1867 |
11-Sep-1935 |
New York's first Chief Medical Examiner |
| Paul O'Neill |
Government |
4-Dec-1935 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 2001-02 |
| Mary Peters |
Government |
4-Dec-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Transportation, 2006-09 |
| Eric S. Raymond |
Computer Programmer |
4-Dec-1957 |
|
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
| Rainer Maria Rilke |
Poet |
04-Dec-1875 |
29-Dec-1926 |
Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus |
| Mark Robson |
Film Director |
4-Dec-1913 |
20-Jun-1978 |
Valley of the Dolls |
| Francis Rooney |
Business |
4-Dec-1953 |
|
US Ambassador to the Vatican, 2005-08 |
| William B. Ross |
Politician |
4-Dec-1873 |
2-Oct-1924 |
Governor of Wyoming, 1923-24 |
| Lillian Russell |
Actor |
4-Dec-1860 |
6-Jun-1922 |
Turn of the century actress, suffragette |
| Paul Schäfer |
Criminal |
4-Dec-1921 |
24-Apr-2010 |
Colonia Dignidad cult leader |
| Mary M. Schroeder |
Judge |
4-Dec-1940 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| D. Brooks Smith |
Judge |
4-Dec-1951 |
|
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Lee Smith |
Baseball |
4-Dec-1957 |
|
Former MLB relief pitcher |
| Pamela Stephenson |
Actor |
4-Dec-1949 |
|
Not the Nine O'Clock News |
| Plum Sykes |
Author |
4-Dec-1969 |
|
Bergdorf Blondes |
| Tony Todd |
Actor |
4-Dec-1954 |
|
Candyman |
| Marisa Tomei |
Actor |
4-Dec-1964 |
|
My Cousin Vinny |
| Nikki Tyler |
Pornstar |
4-Dec-1972 |
|
Inscrewtible, Carnal Instincts, Porcupussy |
| Erwin von Witzleben |
Military |
4-Dec-1881 |
8-Aug-1944 |
German general, tried to overthrow Hitler |
| Patricia Wettig |
Actor |
4-Dec-1951 |
|
thirtysomething |
| John Bell Williams |
Politician |
4-Dec-1918 |
25-Mar-1983 |
Governor of Mississippi, 1968-72 |
| Cassandra Wilson |
Singer |
4-Dec-1955 |
|
New Moon Daughter |
| Dennis Wilson |
Musician |
4-Dec-1944 |
28-Dec-1983 |
Founding member, The Beach Boys |
| Roh Tae Woo |
Head of State |
4-Dec-1932 |
|
President of South Korea, 1988-93 |
| Cornell Woolrich |
Novelist |
4-Dec-1903 |
25-Sep-1968 |
The Bride Wore Black |
