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| * [[1928]] - [[Dick Miller]], American actor | * [[1928]] - [[Dick Miller]], American actor | ||
| * [[1943]] - [[Hanna Schygulla]], German actress | * [[1943]] - [[Hanna Schygulla]], German actress | ||
| - | * 1943 - [[Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior]], Brazilian racing driver | + | * [[1949]] - [[Sissy Spacek]], American actress |
| - | * [[1944]] - [[Jairzinho]], Brazilian footballer | + | |
| - | * 1944 - [[Kenny Everett]], British entertainer (d. [[1995]]) | + | |
| - | * 1944 - [[Henry Vestine]], American musician (d. [[1997]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1945]] - [[Noel Redding]], English musician (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Rick Berman]], [[Star Trek]] producer | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Gary Sandy]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Mike Pringle]], Scottish politician | + | |
| - | * [[1946]] - [[Jimmy Buffett]], American singer and songwriter | + | |
| - | * 1946 - [[Larry Csonka]], American football player | + | |
| - | * 1946 - [[Gene Lamont]], American baseball player and manager | + | |
| - | * [[1948]] - [[Barbara Mandrell]], American singer and actress | + | |
| - | * 1948 - [[Alia al Hussein]], of Jordan (d. [[1977]]) | + | |
| - | * 1948 - [[Joel Natalino Santana]], Brazilian soccer coach | + | |
| - | * [[1949]] - [[Nawaz Sharif]], [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] | + | |
| - | * [[1949]] - [[Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira]], Singer and icon of the Brazilian music | + | |
| - | * 1949 - [[Sissy Spacek]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1949 - [[Joe Louis Walker]], American musician | + | |
| - | * [[1950]] - [[Manny Trillo]], baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1950 - [[Karl Rove]], American presidential advisor | + | |
| - | * [[1952]] - [[CCH Pounder]], Guyana-born actress | + | |
| - | * 1952 - [[Desireless]], French singer | + | |
| - | * [[1954]] - [[Annie Lennox]], Scottish singer | + | |
| - | * 1954 - [[Steve Wariner]], American country music singer | + | |
| - | * [[1957]] - [[Chris Kamara]], English footballer and commentator | + | |
| - | * 1957 - [[Shane MacGowan]], Irish musician | + | |
| - | * [[1958]] - [[Hanford Dixon]], [[American football]] player | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Rickey Henderson]], [[baseball]] player | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Alannah Myles]], Canadian singer | + | |
| - | * [[1959]] - [[Michael P. Anderson]], astronaut (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1960]] - [[Ron Bottitta]], British actor | + | |
| - | * [[1961]] - [[Ingrid Betancourt]], Colombian senator | + | |
| - | * [[1962]] - [[Dean Cameron]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1962 - [[Darren Wharton]], British Keyboardist ([[Thin Lizzy]] and [[Dare]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1964]] - [[Gary McAllister]], Scottish footballer | + | |
| - | * 1964 - [[Tim Royes]] - Music Video Director and Editor | + | |
| - | * 1964 - [[Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne)|Bob Stanley]], English musician ([[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]]), filmmaker and journalist | + | |
| - | * [[1967]] - [[Jason Thirsk]], American bass player (d. [[1996]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1968]] - [[Helena Christensen]], Danish model | + | |
| - | * 1968 - [[Jim Dowd (hockey player)|Jim Down]], American ice hockey player | + | |
| - | * [[1971]] - [[Dido (singer)|Dido]], English singer | + | |
| - | * 1971 - [[Justin Trudeau]], Canadian media personality | + | |
| - | * 1971 - [[Noel Hogan]], Irish musician | + | |
| - | * [[1972]] - [[Josh Freese]], American drummer | + | |
| - | * [[1972]] - [[Mac Powell]], American musician, singer/songwriter (lead singer of [[Third Day]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1973]] - [[Robbie Elliott]], English footballer | + | |
| - | * 1973 - [[Chris Harris (wrestler)|Chris Harris]], American professional wrestler | + | |
| - | * 1973 - [[Alexandre Trudeau]], Canadian journalist | + | |
| - | * [[1974]] - [[Nagma]], Indian actress | + | |
| - | * [[1975]] - [[Marcus Trescothick]], English cricketer | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Hideki Okajima]], Japanese baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Rob Mariano]], American reality show contestant | + | |
| - | * [[1976]] - [[Tuomas Holopainen]], Finnish keyboardist | + | |
| - | * 1976 - [[Armin van Buuren]], Dutch DJ & Producer | + | |
| - | * [[1977]] - [[Jim Greco]], American skateboarder | + | |
| - | * [[1978]] - [[Joel Porter]], Australian footballer | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Simon Jones (cricketer)|Simon Jones]], English cricketer | + | |
| - | * [[1980]] - [[Marcus Trufant]], American football player | + | |
| - | * 1980 - [[Reika Hashimoto]], Japanese actress | + | |
| - | * 1980 - [[Manuel Antonio Cange|Locó]], Angolan footballer | + | |
| - | * 1980 - [[Laura Sadler]], British actress (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1981]] - [[Katie Wright]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1981 - [[Willy Taveras]], baseball player | + | |
| - | * [[1982]] - [[Shawn Andrews]], American football player | + | |
| - | * 1982 - [[Rob Edwards]], Welsh footballer | + | |
| - | * 1982 - [[Shystie]], British rapper-songwriter | + | |
| - | * [[1984]] - [[The Veronicas|Jessica and Lisa Origliasso]], Australian pop singers | + | |
| - | * 1984 - [[Alastair Cook]], English cricketer | + | |
| - | * 1984 - [[Georgia Moffett]], British actress | + | |
| - | * [[1985]] - [[Leon Pisani]], Welsh singer | + | |
| - | * [[1986]] - [[Doug Loft]], English footballer | + | |
| - | * [[1988]] - [[Eric Gordon]], American Basketball Player | + | |
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Art and culture
- Christmas Day
- 1917 - Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
Births
- 1874 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944)
- 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
- 1907 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
- 1911 - Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
- 1925 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author (d. 1998)
- 1928 - Dick Miller, American actor
- 1943 - Hanna Schygulla, German actress
- 1949 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
Deaths
- 795 - Pope Adrian I
- 1156 - Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny (b. c. 1092)
- 1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (b. 1567)
- 1676 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
- 1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
- 1683 - Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (b. 1634)
- 1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
- 1765 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
- 1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
- 1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (b. 1764)
- 1868 - Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)
- 1880 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1828)
- 1916 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
- 1921 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (b. 1853)
- 1925 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
- 1926 - Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
- 1933 - Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
- 1935 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)
- 1938 - Karel Capek, Czech author (b. 1890)
- 1940 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1944 - George Steer, British Journalist (b. 1909)
- 1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
- 1947 - Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
- 1950 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
- 1953 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865)
- 1954 - Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929)
- 1961 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
- 1961 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1888)
- 1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer (b. 1896)
- 1971 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (b. 1924)
- 1973 - İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884)
- 1973 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
- 1975 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
- 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
- 1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
- 1979 - Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)
- 1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
- 1988 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
- 1988 - Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (b. 1920)
- 1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918)
- 1989 - Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (executed) (b. 1916)
- 1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928)
- 1992 - Monica Dickens, British writer (b. 1915)
- 1993 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
- 1994 - Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916)
- 1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
- 1995 - Emmanuel Levinas, French Philosopher (b. 1906)
- 1997 - Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
- 1998 - Bryan MacLean, American singer, musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
- 1998 - John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926)
- 1999 - Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
- 2002 - William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)
- 2003 - Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2004 - Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
- 2005 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
- 2005 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer (b. 1918)
- 2005 - Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
- 2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
Notes
Tristan Tzara James Brown Georges Rodenbach Paul Bourget Joan Miró Robert Walser (writer) Lina Cavalieri Carlos Castaneda Emmanuel Lévinas W. C. Fields Louise Bourgeois Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai Julien Offray de La Mettrie Cab Calloway Charlie Chaplin Karl Abraham Hanna Schygulla
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