December Famous Birthdays

Famous December Birthdays

 

Birthday Name
1800-12-01 Mih ly Vorosmarty  Hungarian poet
1886-12-01 Rex Stout  mystery writer
1899-12-01 Robert Welch  founded John Birch Society
12/1/1902 Morris Red Badgro  NFL end Yankees
12/1/1911 Walter Alston  baseball manager
12/1/1912 Minoru Yamasaki  American architect World Trade Center
12/1/1913 Mary Martin Weatherford  Tx Peter Pan Larry Hagmans mom
12/1/1935 Lou Rawls  singer
12/1/1935 Woody Allen  Allen Stuart Konigsberg Bkln Zelig
12/1/1936 Lee Trevino  pro golfer
12/1/1939 Dianne Lennon  singer
12/1/1940 Richard Pryor  comedian
12/1/1945 Bette Midler  in Patterson NJ
12/1/1958 Charlene Tilton  in San Diego Calif
1859-12-02 Georges Seurat  French painter
1885-12-02 George Minot  US physician
1885-12-02 N┬íkos Kazantazak┬ís  Greek writer Zorba the Greek
12/2/1906 Peter Carl Goldmark  developed color TV & LP records
12/2/1914 Ray Walston  Actor South Pacific
12/2/1915 Adolph Green  songwriter married to Phyllis Newman
12/2/1915 William Randolph Hearst  publisher
12/2/1917 Ezra Stone  American Actor
12/2/1923 Maria Callas  NY opera singer
12/2/1924 Alexander Haig  R sec of state
12/2/1925 Julie Harris  in Michigan
12/2/1931 Edwin Meese III  AG
12/2/1940 Willie Brown  NFL defensive back Denver Broncos
12/2/1949 Cathy Lee Crosby  in LA
12/2/1962 Tracy Austin  tennis pro
1368-12-03 Charles VI  the Well-Beloved
1729-12-03 Antonio Soler  Spain composer
1755-12-03 Gilbert Stuart  American portrait painter
1857-12-03 Joseph Conrad  in Poland
1879-12-03 Sir Rowland Hill  introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp
1883-12-03 Anton von Webern  Austrian 12-tone composer
1895-12-03 Anna Freud  Sigmunds daughter
12/3/1900 Richard Kuhn  Austrian biochemist
12/3/1923 Tom Fears  NFL end LA Rams
12/3/1924 John Backus  inventor of FORTRAN computer language
12/3/1927 Ferlin Husky  Country singer
12/3/1930 Andy Williams  singer Moon River
12/3/1930 Jean-Luc Godard  film maker
12/3/1930 Phyllis Curtin  in West Virginia
12/3/1931 Jaye P Morgan  in Mancos Cal
12/3/1934 Viktor V. Gorbatko  Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 8
12/3/1943 Jim Morrison  rock musician Doors
12/3/1948 Ozzy Osbourne  eat a bat
1443-12-04 Pope Julius II  1503-13
1835-12-04 Samuel Butler  English author Erewhom
1861-12-04 Lillian Russell  American singer
1875-12-04 Rainer Maria Rilke  German poet Duino Elegies
1881-12-04 Thomas Carlyle  Scottish essayist
12/4/1908 A.D. Hershey  US biologist
12/4/1922 Deanna Durbin  Actress 100 Men and a Girl
12/4/1943 Patti Chandler  in Cal
12/4/1944 Dennis Wilson  drummer
12/4/1949 Jeff Bridges  Actor Stay Hungry
1782-12-05 Martin Van Buren  D
1839-12-05 George Armstrong Custer  of Little Big Horn fame
12/5/1901 Walter Elias Disney  father of Mickey Mouse
12/5/1901 Werner Heisenberg  discoverer of uncertainty Nobel 1932
12/5/1902 Strom Thurmond  D/R-Sen-SC
12/5/1903 Cecil Frank Powell  English physicist
12/5/1905 Otto Preminger  movie director
12/5/1947 Jim Plunkett  NFL quarterback
12/5/1947 Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha  1st Mongolian space traveler Soyuz 39
12/5/1951 Morgan Brittany
1421-12-06 Henry VI  king of England 1422-61
1822-12-06 John Eberhard  built 1st large US pencil fActory
1870-12-06 William S Hart  star of silent Westerns
1886-12-06 Joyce Kilmer  poet Trees
1887-12-06 Lynn Fontanne  Bdwy Actress Dulcy
1896-12-06 George Trafton  NFL center Chicago Bears
1896-12-06 Ira Gershwin  lyricist
1898-12-06 Gunnar Myrdal  Swedish sociologist
12/6/1906 Agnes Moorehead  Endorra-Bewitched
12/6/1920 Dave Brubeck  jazz pianist
12/6/1921 Otto Graham  AAFC
12/6/1925 Andy Robustelli  NFL defensive end LA Rams
12/6/1947 Chelsea Brown  in Chicago Ill
1542-12-07 Mary Queen  of Scots
1598-12-07 Gian Bernini  baroque sculptor
1761-12-07 Madame Marie Tussaud  created wax museum
1873-12-07 Willa Cather  American author My Antonia
1878-12-07 Akiko Yosano  Japanese poet
1888-12-07 Joyce Cary  writer
12/7/1905 Gerard Kuiper  US astronomer
12/7/1915 Eli Wallach  Actor
12/7/1923 Ted Knight  Actor Ted Baxter
12/7/1924 Mario Soares  Socialist
12/7/1928 Noam Chomsky  linguist
12/7/1932 Ellen Burstyn  in Det
12/7/1947 Gregg Allman  singer
12/7/1947 Johnny Bench  baseball catcher
12/7/1948 Yoko Morishita  prima ballerina
12/7/1956 Larry Bird  Boston Celtics
12/7/1956 Priscilla Barnes  3s Company
0065-12-08 Horace  BC in Rome
1626-12-08 Christina  queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1765-12-08 Eli Whitney  inventor
1832-12-08 Bj├¡rnstjerne Bj├¡rnson  Norwegian writer Nobel 1903
1861-12-08 Aristide Maillol  French painter
1861-12-08 William Crapo Durant  founded GM
1865-12-08 Jean Sibelius  major Scandinavian composer
1886-12-08 Diego Rivera  Mexican muralist
1894-12-08 James  Grover Thurber
12/8/1903 Adele Simpson  fashion designer
12/8/1906 Richard Llewellyn  Welsh novelist How Green Was My Valley
12/8/1908 John Volpe  former governor of Massachusetts
12/8/1922 John B. Jack McKay  X-15 pilot
12/8/1925 Sammy Davis Jr  singer
12/8/1927 Vladimir A. Shatalov  Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 4
12/8/1930 Maximilian Schell  Actor Odessa File
12/8/1933 Flip Wilson  comedian
12/8/1936 David Carradine  Actor Kung Fu
12/8/1937 James MacArthur  Actor — “BookEm Danno!”
12/8/1953 Kim Basinger  in Athens Ga 9 1/2 Weeks
1561-12-09 Edwin Sandys  a founder of Va colony
1594-12-09 Gustavus II Adolphus  king who made Sweden a major power 1611-32
1608-12-09 John Milton  poet and puritan Paradise Lost
1848-12-09 Joel Chandler Harris  created Uncle Remus stories
1886-12-09 Clarence Birdseye  frozen vegatable king
1897-12-09 Hermione Gingold
1898-12-09 Emmett Kelly  circus clown Weary Willie
12/9/1902 Margaret Hamilton  Actress Wicked Witch of the West
12/9/1905 Dalton Trumbo  writer
12/9/1909 Douglas Fairbanks Jr  Actor Ghost Story
12/9/1911 Broderick Crawford  Actor All the Kings Men
12/9/1911 Lee J. Cobb  Actor The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
12/9/1912 Thomas P. ONeill  D-Mass-Rep Speaker of the House
12/9/1915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf  soprano
12/9/1918 Kirk Douglas  Actor Gunfight at the OK Corral
12/9/1922 Redd Foxx  Actor and comedian Sanford and Son
12/9/1925 Dina Merrill  in NYC
12/9/1926 Luis Miguel Domingu┬ín  matador
12/9/1928 Dick Van Patten  Actor Eight Is Enough
12/9/1929 Robert J.L. Hawke  Labor
12/9/1938 David Deacon Jones  NFL defensive end LA
12/9/1942 Dick Butkus  NFL linebacker Chicago Bears
12/9/1957 Donny Osmond  singer
1787-12-10 Thomas H. Gallaudet  pioneer of educating the deaf
1822-12-10 Cesar Franck  in Belgium
1824-12-10 George Macdonald  Scottish novelist Lilith
1830-12-10 Emily Dickinson  poet
1851-12-10 Melvil Dewey  creator of Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1891-12-10 Nelly Sachs  German poet O the Chimneys Nobel 1966
12/10/1903 Una Merkel  Actress The Parent Trap
12/10/1914 Dorothy Lamour  in New Orleans Road to Bali
12/10/1946 Gloria Loring  in NYC
12/10/1952 Susan Hallock Dey  in Ill First Love
12/10/1961 Nia Peeples
1781-12-11 Sir David Brewster  Scottish physicist
1803-12-11 Hector Berlioz  in France
1863-12-11 Annie Jump Cannon  American stellar spectroscopist
1882-12-11 Fiorello La Guardia  R
1882-12-11 Max Born  German physicist Nobel 1954
12/11/1905 Gilbert Roland  Actor Barbarosa
12/11/1913 Carlo Ponti  director
12/11/1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  Russian writer Cancer Ward Nobel 1970
12/11/1931 Rita Moreno  Actress The King and I
12/11/1937 Anne Heywood
12/11/1944 Brenda Lee  in Atlanta Georgia
12/11/1944 Donna Mills  in Chicago Illinois
12/11/1945 Lynda Day-George  in Tennessee
12/11/1947 Elizabeth Baur  in Cal
12/11/1950 Christine Onasis  in NYC
12/11/1962 Kim Linehan  swimmer
1745-12-12 John Jay  diplomat
1805-12-12 Henry Wells  founded Am Expr & Wells Fargo
1821-12-12 Gustave Flaubert  novelist Madame Bovary
1852-12-12 Henri Becquerel  discoverer of radioactivity Nobel 1903
1863-12-12 Edvard Munch  Norwegian painter and print maker The Scream
12/12/1915 Frank Sinatra  singer
12/12/1918 Joe Williams  jazz singer
12/12/1923 Bob Barker  game show host
12/12/1924 Edward Koch  mayor of NYC
12/12/1929 John Osborne  playwright
12/12/1938 Connie Francis  in Newark NJ
12/12/1941 Dionne Warwick  in East Orange NJ
12/12/1950 Billy Smith  goaltender NY Islanders
12/12/1962 Holly Gagnier  in LA
1797-12-13 Heinrich Heine  German poet
1818-12-13 Mary Todd Lincoln  1st lady
1835-12-13 Phillips Brooks  clergyman
1871-12-13 Russell Porter
12/13/1903 Carlos Montoya  guitarist
12/13/1913 Archie Moore  light-heavyweight boxing champ
12/13/1915 Ross Macdonald  detective novelist
12/13/1920 George Schultz  secof state
12/13/1925 Dick Van Dyke  Actor Dick Van Dyke Show
12/13/1929 Christopher Plummer  Actor
12/13/1930 Genevieve Page
12/13/1941 John Davidson  TV host
12/13/1948 Kathy Garver  in Cal
1503-12-14 Nostradamus  astrologer and physician
1546-12-14 Tycho Brahe  at Knudstrup
1895-12-14 George VI  king of England 1936-52
1896-12-14 James H. Doolittle  former Air Force general
1897-12-14 Margaret Chase Smith  R-Sen-Maine
12/14/1909 Edward L. Tatum  American molecular geneticist Nobel 1958
12/14/1914 Morey Amsterdam  Actor
12/14/1922 Charley Trippi  NFL halfback Chicago Cardinals
12/14/1932 Abbe Lane  in Bkln
12/14/1932 Charlie Rich  singer
12/14/1935 Lee Remick  in Boston Mass Days of Wine and Rose
12/14/1938 Janette Scott
12/14/1946 Jane Birkin
12/14/1946 Joyce Wilson Dawn  in Detroit Michigan
12/14/1946 Patty Duke  in Bkln
1832-12-15 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel  built a tower in Paris
1859-12-15 Ludwik Zamenhof  inventor of Esperanto
1861-12-15 Charles Edgar Duryea  invented 1st auto built and operated in US
1892-12-15 J. Paul Getty  business tycoon
12/15/1933 Tim Conway  comedian Carol Burnett Show
12/15/1965 Helen Slater  Actress Supergirl
1485-12-16 Catherine of Aragon  1st wife of Henry VIII
1770-12-16 Ludwig von Beethoven  Bonn Germany
1775-12-16 Jane Austen  English novelist Pride and Prejudice
1863-12-16 George Santayana  philosopher
1899-12-16 Sir Noel Coward  playwright
12/16/1900 V.S. Pritchett  literary critic
12/16/1901 Margaret Mead  anthropologist Coming of Age in Samoa
12/16/1917 Arthur C. Clarke  science-fiction author 2001
12/16/1926 James McCracken  dramatic tenor
12/16/1939 Liv Ullman  in Tokyo Japan Cries and Whispers
12/16/1941 Leslie Stahl  TV newsperson
12/16/1952 Elayne Boosler  Comedian
12/16/1962 William Perry  Chicago Bears The Refrigerator
1778-12-17 Sir Humphry Davy  discovered several chemical elements
1797-12-17 Joseph Henry  American scientist and inventor
1807-12-17 John Greenleaf Whittier  poet
1853-12-17 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree  English Actor
1874-12-17 William Lyon Mackenzie King  L
1894-12-17 Arthur Fiedler  Boston Pops conductor
12/17/1903 Erskine Caldwell  author Tobacco Road
12/17/1908 Willard Frank Libby  invented carbon-14 “atomic clock”
12/17/1926 Patrice Wymore
12/17/1929 William Safire  political columnist
12/17/1930 Julia Meade
12/17/1936 Roland Sheldon  Yankee Pitcher
12/17/1936 Tommy Steele  singer
1707-12-18 Charles Wesley  cofounder of Methodist movement
1709-12-18 Elizabeth  empress of Russia to Peter the Great and Catherine I
1779-12-18 Joseph Grimaldi  English pantomimist
1786-12-18 Carl Maria von Weber  German Romantic composer
1861-12-18 Edward MacDowell  composer
1879-12-18 Paul Klee  Swiss abstract painter
1886-12-18 Ty Cobb  played in 3000 games
1888-12-18 Robert Moses  power broker built Long Island & NYC parks & roads
1890-12-18 Edwin Armstrong  radio pioneer invented FM
12/18/1910 Abe Burrows  Broadway impresario
12/18/1913 Willy Brandt  SD
12/18/1916 Betty Grable  in St Louis
12/18/1917 Lynn Bari  Actress
12/18/1917 Ossie Davis
12/18/1927 Ramsey Clark  Attorney General
12/18/1934 Boris V. Volynov  Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 5
12/18/1943 Keith Richard  singer Rolling Stones
12/18/1947 Steven Spielberg  director Jaws
12/18/1950 Leonard Maltin  Movie reviewer
1683-12-19 Philip V  1st Bourbon king of Spain 1700-46
1790-12-19 Sir William Parry  British Arctic explorer
1821-12-19 Mary Ashton Livermore  American reformer
1849-12-19 Henry Clay Frick  industrialist; worked for Carnegie
1865-12-19 Minnie Maddern Fiske  American stage Actress
12/19/1906 H. Allen Smith  author
12/19/1906 Leonid Brezhnev  Ukraine
12/19/1910 Jean Genet  French novelist and playwright The Blacks
12/19/1920 David Susskind  TV producer
12/19/1926 Bobby Layne  pro quarterback Detroit Lions
12/19/1928 Galt MacDermot  Canadian composer
12/19/1933 Cicely Tyson  in NYC Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
12/19/1941 Maurice White  Singer
12/19/1944 Tim Reid  Actor WKRP
12/19/1945 Elaine Joyce  Actress Dating Game
12/19/1946 Robert Urich  Actor
12/19/1947 Janie Fricke  Singer
12/19/1949 Claudia Kolb  swimmer
12/19/1963 Jennifer Beals  in Chicago Flashdance
12/19/1972 Alyassa Milano  Whos the Boss
1805-12-20 Thomas Graham  Father of colloid chemistry
1819-12-20 John Geary  1st SF postmaster
1833-12-20 Dr Samuel A. Mudd  convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth
1841-12-20 Ferdinand-┬Édouard Buisson  French educator Nobel Peace Prize 1927
1868-12-20 Harvey S Firestone  where the rubber meets the road
1894-12-20 Sir Robert Menzies  Australian PM 1939-41
1895-12-20 Susanne Langer  US philosopher
12/20/1904 Irene Dunne  in Louisville Ky
12/20/1922 George Roy Hill  Movie director
12/20/1928 Dr Joyce Brothers
12/20/1928 Jack Christiansen  NFL defensive back Det Lions
12/20/1952 Jenny Agutter  in London
1804-12-21 Benjamin Disraeli Tory  British prime minister 1868
1874-12-21 Juan Bautista Sacasa  president of Nicaragua 1932-36
1879-12-21 Joseph Stalin  Russian dictator
1891-12-21 John W McCormack  D
12/21/1909 George Ball  former undersecretary of state
12/21/1911 Josh Gibson  pro baseball player
12/21/1917 Heinrich Boll  German writer Group Portrait with Lady Nobel72
12/21/1918 Donald Regan  White House staffer
12/21/1918 Kurt Waldheim  4th UN sec-gen 1972-81
12/21/1922 Paul Winchell  ventriloquist
12/21/1935 Phil Donahue  TV host
12/21/1937 Jane Fonda NYC  Actress Barbarella
12/21/1939 Diane Lennon  in LA
12/21/1940 Frank Zappa  rock singer Grateful Dead
12/21/1944 Michael Tilson Thomas  conductor
12/21/1948 Dave Kingman  Baseball player
12/21/1954 Chris Evert Lloyd  Ft Lauderdale
1696-12-22 James Oglethorpe  English general
1727-12-22 William Ellery  signed Decl of Ind
1856-12-22 Frank Kellogg  sec of state
1858-12-22 Giacomo Puccini  Italian operatic composer La Bohme
1862-12-22 Connie Mack  HOF baseball manager
1869-12-22 Edwin Arlington Robinson  poet
12/22/1903 H Keffer Hartline  US biophysicist Nobel 1967
12/22/1912 Claudia Lady Bird Johnson  1st lady
12/22/1917 Gene Rayburn  game show host
12/22/1922 James C Wright Jr  D-Texas
12/22/1944 Steve Carlton  baseball player
12/22/1945 Diane Sawyer  TV news personality
12/22/1949 Maurice and Robin Gibb  Beegees
12/22/1951 Jan Stephenson  in Australia golfer
1732-12-23 Sir Richard Arkwright  invented spinning frame
1777-12-23 Alexander I  tsar of Russia 1801-25
1790-12-23 Jean-Francois Champollion  deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
1805-12-23 Joesph Smith  founded Mormon church
1812-12-23 Samuel Smiles  Scottish writer Self-Help
1860-12-23 Harriet Monroe  American poet
12/23/1918 Jose Greco  dancer
12/23/1924 Ruth Roman  in Boston Mass
12/23/1925 Harry Guardino  Actor Hill Street Blues
12/23/1935 Paul Hornung  Green Bay Packer the Golden Boy
12/23/1941 Elizabeth Hartman  in Youngstown Ohio
12/23/1949 Susan Lucci  soap star
1745-12-24 Benjamin Rush  American physician
1809-12-24 Kit Carson  Western scout
1818-12-24 James Prescott Joule  physicist
1822-12-24 Matthew Arnold  English poet Dover Beach
1868-12-24 Emanuel Lasker  of Germany
1881-12-24 Juan Ramon Jimenez  Spanish poet Distant Gardens Nobel 1956
12/24/1905 Howard Hughes  reclusive billionaire
12/24/1907 I.F. Stone  American journalist
12/24/1921 Bill Dudley  NFL halfback Pittsburgh
12/24/1922 Ava Gardner  Actress On the Beach
12/24/1930 Robert Joffrey  Choreographer
12/24/1959 Madonna  rock singer
1642-12-25 Isaac Newton  sir in Grantham
1752-12-25 Mithra
1821-12-25 Clara Barton  American Red Cross founder in Oxford
1865-12-25 Evangeline Cory Booth  Salvation Army general
1876-12-25 Mohammed Ali Jinnah  founder of Pakistan
1881-12-25 Joseph McCarthy  Yank manager
1883-12-25 Maurice Utrillo  French painter
1887-12-25 Conrad Hilton  hotelman
1892-12-25 Dame Rebecca West  author
1899-12-25 Humphrey Bogart  Actor
1899-12-25 Raphael Soyer  painter
12/25/1904 Gerhard Herzberg  Can physicist molecular structure Nobel 1971
12/25/1906 Lord Grade
12/25/1907 Cab Calloway  bandleader
12/25/1909 Mike Mazurki  Actor
12/25/1913 Tony Martin  singer
12/25/1918 Anwar Sadat  Egyptian pres 1970-81 Nobel 1978
12/25/1940 Phil Spector  rock producer
12/25/1945 Gary Sandy  Actor
12/25/1945 Kenny Stabler  NFL QB Oakland Raiders
12/25/1946 Larry Csonka  Former football player
12/25/1948 Barbara Mandrell  in Houston Tx
12/25/1949 Sissy Spacek  in Quitman Tx Badlands
12/25/1954 Annie Lennox  Singer Eurithemics
12/25/1958 Rickey Henderson  baseball player
1194-12-26 Frederick II Hohenstaufen  Holy Roman emperor
1716-12-26 Thomas Gray  English poet Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
1738-12-26 Thomas Nelson  merchant
1778-12-26 Juan Lovera  Venezuelan artist
1792-12-26 Charles Babbage  invented calculating machine
1837-12-26 Adm. George Dewey  the American naval hero of Manila
1891-12-26 Henry Miller  author Tropic of Capricorn
1893-12-26 Mao Tse-tung  of little red book fame
12/26/1914 Richard Widmark  Actor Alamo
12/26/1917 Rosemary Woods  Nixons secretary
12/26/1921 Steve Allen  comedian
12/26/1927 Alan King  comedian
12/26/1942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo  president of Guatemala 1986-
12/26/1948 Chris Chambliss  NY Yankee 1st baseman
1571-12-27 Johannes Kepler  at Weil-der-Stadt
1773-12-27 George Cayley  founder of the science of aerodynamics
1822-12-27 Louis Pasteur  French bacteriologist
12/27/1901 Marlene Dietrich  in Berlin Germany Blue Angel
12/27/1939 John Amos  Actor
12/27/1952 Tovah Feldsuh  in NYC
12/27/1957 Caroline Kennedy
1763-12-28 John Molson  founder of a Montreal brewery
1856-12-28 Woodrow Wilson  D
1882-12-28 Arthur Eddington  English astrophysicist and cosmologist
1882-12-28 Sir Arthur Eddington  astronomer
1894-12-28 Ed Healey  NFL tackle Rock Island Independents
1896-12-28 Roger Sessions  American composer
12/28/1903 John Von Neumann
12/28/1905 EarlFatha Hines  jazz pianist
12/28/1908 Lew Ayres  Actor All Quiet on the Western Front
12/28/1920 Steve Van Buren  NFL halfback Eagles
12/28/1925 Heldegarde Neff  in Ulm Germany
12/28/1929 Owen Bieber  president of United Auto Workers
12/28/1931 Martin Milner  Adam-12
12/28/1934 Maggie Smith  in Ilford Eng Death on the Nile
1721-12-29 Marquise de Pompadour  mistress of French King Louis the 15th
1776-12-29 Charles Macintosh  Scotland
1800-12-29 Charles Goodyear  invented vulcanization process for rubber
1808-12-29 Andrew Johnson  Unionist
1809-12-29 William Ewart Gladstone  Lib
1859-12-29 Venustiano Carranza  president of Mexico 1915-20
1879-12-29 Billy Mitchell  WW I aviation hero Gen
12/29/1917 Tom Bradley  LA Mayor
12/29/1920 Viveca Lindfors  Actress The Way We Were
12/29/1921 Marla Powers
12/29/1934 Inga Swenson  in Omaha Nebraska
12/29/1936 Ray Nitschke  NFL linebacker Green Bay Packers
12/29/1937 Mary Tyler Moore  in Bkln Mary Tyler Moore Show
12/29/1938 Barbara Steele
12/29/1938 Jon Voight  Actor Deliverance
12/29/1946 Marianne Faithful  Rocker
12/29/1947 Ted Danson  Cheers
12/29/1949 Angel Tompkins
12/29/1952 Gelsey Kirkland  ballerina
1851-12-30 Asa Griggs Candler  developed Coca-Cola
1865-12-30 Rudyard Kipling  author who coined “White mans burden” Nobel07
1867-12-30 Simon Guggenheim  sen
1869-12-30 Stephen Leacock  Canadian economist
1876-12-30 Pablo Casals  Spanish violinist
1884-12-30 Tojo Hideki  Japanese PM in WWII
12/30/1911 Jeanette Nolan
12/30/1914 Bert Parks  Miss America emcee
12/30/1919 Jo Van Fleet  Actress Gunfight at the OK Corral
12/30/1928 Bo Diddley  Rockn roll pioneer
12/30/1928 Jack Lord  Hawaii 5-0
12/30/1929 Barbara Nichols
12/30/1931 Skeeter Davis  in Dry Ridge Ky
12/30/1935 Sandy Koufax  Dodger pitcher
12/30/1942 Mike Nesmith  Monkees
12/30/1959 Tracy Ullman
1869-12-31 Henri Matisse  French Impressionist painter
1880-12-31 George C Marshall  authored Marshall Plan Nobel 1953
12/31/1904 Nathan Milstein  concert violinist
12/31/1905 Jule Styne  English songwriter
12/31/1928 Hugh McElhenny  NFL halfback SF
12/31/1930 Odetta  folk singer
12/31/1932 George Schlatter  TV producer
12/31/1937 Anthony Hopkins  Actor
12/31/1941 Sarah Miles  in England
12/31/1943 Ben Kingsley  Actor
12/31/1943 John Denver  Country Singer Country Roads
12/31/1946 Diane von Furstenberg  fashion designer in Brussels Belgium
12/31/1946 Patty Smith  in Chic
12/31/1947 Tim Matheson  Actor Animal House
12/31/1948 Donna Summer  in Boston On the Radio;