Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
Thomas Becket |
Religion |
c. 1118 |
29-Dec-1170 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162-70 |
Joseph Cornell |
Sculptor |
24-Dec-1903 |
29-Dec-1972 |
Exponent of Assemblage |
Axel Corti |
Film Director |
7-May-1933 |
29-Dec-1993 |
Where To and Back trilogy |
Jacques-Louis David |
Painter |
30-Aug-1748 |
29-Dec-1825 |
French Neoclassical painter |
John Davis |
Explorer |
c. 1550 |
29-Dec-1605 |
Discovered Falkland Islands |
Leslie Dwyer |
Actor |
28-Aug-1906 |
29-Dec-1986 |
Mr Partridge in Hi-de-Hi! |
Hugh J. Gallen |
Politician |
30-Jul-1924 |
29-Dec-1982 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1979-82 |
Tim Hardin |
Singer/Songwriter |
23-Dec-1941 |
29-Dec-1980 |
If I Were a Carpenter |
John Marshall Harlan |
Judge |
20-May-1899 |
29-Dec-1971 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1955-71 |
F. Edward Hebert |
Politician |
12-Oct-1901 |
29-Dec-1979 |
Congressman from Louisiana, 1941-77 |
Fletcher Henderson |
Jazz Musician |
18-Dec-1897 |
29-Dec-1952 |
Pioneering swing and jazz bandleader |
Earl Hindman |
Actor |
20-Oct-1943 |
29-Dec-2003 |
Elusive neighbor on Home Improvement |
Freddie Hubbard |
Jazz Musician |
7-Apr-1938 |
29-Dec-2008 |
Hard-bop jazz trumpet soloist |
Tullio Levi-Civita |
Mathematician |
29-Mar-1873 |
29-Dec-1941 |
Explored tensor calculus and PDE's |
David Levine |
Cartoonist |
20-Dec-1926 |
29-Dec-2009 |
Caricaturist, New York Review of Books |
Harold Macmillan |
Head of State |
10-Feb-1894 |
29-Dec-1986 |
UK Prime Minister, 1957-63 |
Thomas Malthus |
Economist |
13-Feb-1766 |
29-Dec-1834 |
Essay on the Principle of Population |
Don Marquis |
Journalist |
29-Jul-1878 |
29-Dec-1937 |
archy and mehitabel |
Wilhelm Maybach |
Engineer |
9-Feb-1846 |
29-Dec-1929 |
Designed the Mercedes |
Kelly Miller |
Sociologist |
23-Jul-1863 |
29-Dec-1939 |
Out of the House of Bondage |
William Osler |
Doctor |
12-Jul-1849 |
29-Dec-1919 |
Father of psychosomatic medicine |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
Poet |
04-Dec-1875 |
29-Dec-1926 |
Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus |
Leo Robin |
Songwriter |
6-Apr-1900 |
29-Dec-1984 |
Thanks For The Memory |
Christina Rossetti |
Poet |
5-Dec-1830 |
29-Dec-1894 |
Goblin Market and Other Poems |
William Sheluck, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1941 |
29-Dec-2007 |
CEO of Nationar, 1983-93 |
Carl Spitteler |
Poet |
24-Apr-1845 |
29-Dec-1924 |
The Olympic Spring |
Thomas Sydenham |
Doctor |
13-Sep-1624 |
29-Dec-1689 |
The English Hippocrates |
Brook Taylor |
Mathematician |
18-Aug-1685 |
29-Dec-1731 |
Calculus of Finite Differences |
Thomas B. Welch |
Business |
31-Dec-1825 |
29-Dec-1903 |
Grape juice magnate |
Paul Whiteman |
Musician |
28-Mar-1890 |
29-Dec-1967 |
The King of Jazz |