Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Joseph Barbera |
Cartoonist |
24-Mar-1911 |
18-Dec-2006 |
Hanna-Barbera cartoons |
Majel Barrett |
Actor |
23-Feb-1932 |
18-Dec-2008 |
Widow of Gene Roddenberry |
Charles Berlitz |
Author |
20-Nov-1914 |
18-Dec-2003 |
Language lessons and specultive non-fiction |
Eduard Bernstein |
Politician |
6-Jan-1850 |
18-Dec-1932 |
Evolutionary Socialism |
Robert Worth Bingham |
Business |
8-Nov-1871 |
18-Dec-1937 |
Publisher of The Louisville Courier-Journal |
Robert Bresson |
Film Director |
25-Sep-1901 |
18-Dec-1999 |
Une Femme Douce |
Heywood Broun |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1888 |
18-Dec-1939 |
Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s |
Thomas Corwin |
Politician |
29-Jul-1794 |
18-Dec-1865 |
Ohio Governor, Senator, Treasury Secretary |
T. G. Dobzhansky |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1900 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Genetics and the Origin of Species |
W. Mark Felt |
Government |
17-Aug-1913 |
18-Dec-2008 |
Watergate's Deep Throat |
Mary Parker Follett |
Business |
3-Sep-1868 |
18-Dec-1933 |
Community centers and conflict resolution |
Frederick D. Gardner |
Politician |
6-Nov-1869 |
18-Dec-1933 |
Governor of Missouri, 1917-21 |
James L. Goddard |
Government |
24-Apr-1923 |
18-Dec-2009 |
FDA Commissioner, 1966-68 |
Mark Goodson |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Jan-1915 |
18-Dec-1992 |
Goodson-Todman Productions |
Vaclav Havel |
Head of State |
5-Oct-1936 |
18-Dec-2011 |
Playwright President of Czechia |
Johann Gottfried Herder |
Philosopher |
25-Aug-1744 |
18-Dec-1803 |
Sturm und Drang movement |
Connie Hines |
Actor |
24-Mar-1931 |
18-Dec-2009 |
Carol Post on Mister Ed |
Harry Hooper |
Baseball |
24-Aug-1887 |
18-Dec-1974 |
MLB Hall of Famer |
Steve James |
Actor |
19-Feb-1952 |
18-Dec-1993 |
American Ninja |
Bobby Jones |
Golf |
17-Mar-1902 |
18-Dec-1971 |
Winner of 13 major championships |
Father Joseph |
Religion |
4-Nov-1577 |
18-Dec-1638 |
Confidant of Cardinal Richelieu |
Cresson H. Kearny |
Inventor |
7-Jan-1914 |
18-Dec-2003 |
Patriot, inventor, survivalist idol |
Alexei Kosygin |
Head of State |
20-Feb-1904 |
18-Dec-1980 |
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1964-80 |
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
Biologist |
1-Aug-1744 |
18-Dec-1829 |
Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist |
Diana Lynn |
Actor |
7-Oct-1926 |
18-Dec-1971 |
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek |
F. Bradford Morse |
Politician |
7-Aug-1921 |
18-Dec-1994 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1961-72 |
Edward Norris |
Actor |
10-Mar-1911 |
18-Dec-2002 |
They Won't Forget |
Conor Cruise O'Brien |
Author |
3-Nov-1917 |
18-Dec-2008 |
Irish Parliamentarian and Scholar |
Mollie Orshansky |
Economist |
9-Jan-1915 |
18-Dec-2006 |
Orshansky Index |
Sir Richard Owen |
Naturalist |
20-Jul-1804 |
18-Dec-1892 |
A History of British Fossil Reptiles |
Wayne Owens |
Politician |
2-May-1937 |
18-Dec-2002 |
Congressman from Utah, 1987-93 |
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa |
Economist |
23-Jul-1940 |
18-Dec-2010 |
Italian Finance Minister, 2006-08 |
Anne Revere |
Actor |
25-Jun-1903 |
18-Dec-1990 |
National Velvet |
Cyril Ritchard |
Actor |
1-Dec-1897 |
18-Dec-1977 |
Stage actor, Capt. Hook in Peter Pan |
Lilia Skala |
Actor |
28-Nov-1896 |
18-Dec-1994 |
Lilies of the Field |
Benjamin Stoddert |
Military |
1751 |
18-Dec-1813 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1798-1801 |
June Storey |
Actor |
20-Apr-1918 |
18-Dec-1991 |
In Old Chicago |
Antonio Stradivari |
Artist |
1644 |
18-Dec-1737 |
Violin maker |
George Edmund Street |
Architect |
20-Jun-1824 |
18-Dec-1881 |
English Gothic revival architect |
Charles François Sturm |
Mathematician |
29-Sep-1803 |
18-Dec-1855 |
Sturm's Theorem |
Smith Thompson |
Judge |
17-Jan-1768 |
18-Dec-1843 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1823-43 |
Louis Untermeyer |
Poet |
1-Oct-1885 |
18-Dec-1977 |
Anthologist of poetry |
Paul Weyrich |
Columnist |
7-Oct-1942 |
18-Dec-2008 |
Conservative activist |
Earle G. Wheeler |
Military |
13-Jan-1908 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1964-70 |
Konrad Zuse |
Engineer |
22-Jun-1910 |
18-Dec-1995 |
Built first Turing-complete computer |