Post by Outlooker on Nov 27, 2007 22:04:47 GMT -5
Famous December Birthdays
December 1:
1913 Mary Martin, actress, singer
1935- Woody Allen, Actor, director, comedian
1936- Lou Rawls, singer
1940- Richard Pryor, actor, comedian
1945- Bette Midler, actress, singer
December 2:
1859- Georges Seurat, painter
1863- Charles Ringling, formed Ringling Bros. circus
1954- Stone Phillips, TV journalist
1968- Lucy Liu, actress, movie "Charlie's Angels"
1973- Monica Seles, champion tennis player
1981- Britney Spears, singer
December 3:
1895- Anna Freud, psychoanalyst, daughter of Sigmund Freud
1930- Andy Williams, singer
1948- Ozzy Osbourne, actor, singer
1951- Rick Mears, auto racer
1960- Darryl Hannah, actress, lead actress in "Splash"
1965- Katerina Witt, champion Olympic figure skater
1968- Brendan Fraser, actor, "George of the Jungle"
December 4:
1892 Francisco Franco, Spanish Dictator
1949- Jeff Bridges, actor
1964- Marisa Tomei, actress, "Mona Lisa Vito" in movie "My Cousin Vinny"
1973- Tyra Banks, model, actress
December 5:
1782- Martin Van Buren, 8th U.S. President (1837-1841)
1839- George Armstrong Custer, cavalry officer, killed at the Little Big Horn
1901- Walt Disney, animator, entertainment, filmmaker
1932- "Little Richard" Penniman, singer, songwriter
1947- Jim Messina, singer
December 6:
1886- Joyce Kilmer, poet
1896- Ira Gershwin, lyricist, wrote lyrics for brother George
1906- Agnes Moorehead, actress, the mother "Endora" on TV series "Bewitched"
1955- Stephen Wright, comedian (New York, NY)
December 7:
1915- Eli Wallach, actor
1942- Harry Chapin, singer, songwriter
1947- Gregg Allman, singer, musician
December 8:
1765- Eli Whitney, invented the cotton gin
1894- James Thurber, humorist
1925- Sammy Davis Jr., actor, singer
1943- Jim Morrison, singer, songwriter
1953- Kim Basinger, actress
1966- Sinead O'Connor, singer
December 9:
1608 -John Milton, poet
1898- Emmett Kelly, clown
1912- Tip O'Neill, Massachusetts Congressman, Speaker of the House
1941 -Beau Bridges, actor
1957- Donny Osmond, singer, actor, "Donny & Marie"
December 10:
1830- Emily Dickinson, poet
1851- Melvil Dewey, librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System
1911- Chet Huntley, newscaster, co-anchor on the "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1928- Dan Blocker, actor, "Hoss Cartwright" on TV series "Bonanza"
1952- Susan Dey, actress
December 11:
1882- Fiorello La Guardia, New York City Mayor
1918- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist
1931- Rita Moreno, actress, singer
1942- Donna Mills, actress, "Abby Fairgate"on TV series "Knots Landing"
1944- Brenda Lee, singer
December 12:
1893- Edward G. Robinson, actor
1915 Frank Sinatra, actor, singer, actor
1923- Bob Barker, TV game show host,"Truth or Consequences" and long-time host of "The Price is Right"
1924- Ed Koch, New York City mayor
1959- Sheila Escoveda "Sheila E" , singer
December 13:
1818- Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States
1925- Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian
1949 -Ted Nugent, singer
December 14:
1503- Nostradamus, astrologer
1896- James Doolittle, World War II aviator
December 15:
1832- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower
1892- J. Paul Getty, oil billionaire, philanthropist
1916- Maurice H. Wilkins, biophysicist, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1933- Tim Conway, actor, comedian, "McHales's Navy, "The Carol Burnett Show"
1949- Don Johnson, actor, "Miami Vice"
December 16:
1770- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
1901- Margaret Mead, anthropologist
December 17:
1917- Gene Rayburn, TV personality
1954- Bill Pullman, actor
December 18:
1886- Ty Cobb, MLB baseball player
1916- Betty Grable, actress
1947- Steven Spielberg, director, producer
1964- Brad Pitt, actor
December 19:
1790- Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer
1906- Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader
1920- David Susskind, TV journalist, producer
1933- Cicely Tyson, actress
1961- Reggie White, NFL football player
1972- Alyssa Milano, actress
December 20:
1868- Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer
1898- Irene Dunne, actress
1966- Kiefer Sutherland, actor
December 21:
1879- Joseph Stalin, Soviet Russia Dictator
1926- Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach
1935- Phil Donahue, TV talk show host
1937- Jane Fonda, actress, Vietnam War protester
1940- Frank Zappa, musician, songwriter
1954- Chris Evert, champion tennis player
1957 Ray Romano, actor, comedian, TV series "Everyone Loves Raymond"
December 22:
1912- Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States
1922- Barbara Billingsley, actress, "June Cleaver" on TV series "Leave it to Beaver"
1945- Diane Sawyer, TV news correspondent, journalist
1949- Maurice Gibb, singer, musician, member of the "Bee Gees", twin "Robin"
1949- Robin Gibb, singer,musician, member of the "Bee Gees", twin "Maurice"
December 23:
1805- Joseph Smith, founded the Mormon Church
1860- Harriet Monroe, poet
1926- Robert Bly, author
1943- Harry Shearer, actor, comedian
December 24:
1809- Kit Carson, frontiersman, soldier
1905- Howard Hughes, industrialist, aviator, producer, recluse
1931- Mary Higgins Clark, author
December 25:
1642- Sir Isaac Newton, scientist, mathematician
1821- Clara Barton, nurse, found the American Red Cross
1899- Humphrey Bogart, actor
1907- Cab Calloway, singer, bandleader
1918- Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President
1924- Rod Serling, host of "The Twilight Zone"
1946- Jimmy Buffett, singer, songwriter
1946- Larry Csonka, NFL Miami Dolphins Fullback
1947- Barbara Mandrell, singer
1949- Sissy Spacek, actress
1962- Norm McDonald, actor, comedian
1971- Dido, singer
December 26:
1893- Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist Leader
1914- Richard Widmark, actor
1921- Steve Allen, TV personality
December 27:
1571- Johannes Kepler, astronomer
1822 Louis Pasteur, chemist, bacteriologist
1943- Cokie Roberts, TV journalist
December 28:
1763- John Molson, founded the Molson brewery
1856- Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-1921)
1954- Denzel Washington, actor
December 29:
1808- Andrew Johnson, 17th U.S. President (1865-1869)
1936- Mary Tyler Moore, actress
1947- Ted Danson, actor, TV series "Cheers"
December 30:
1865- Rudyard Kipling, writer
1867- Simon Guggenheim, industrialist, philanthropist
1942- Michael Nesmith, singer, songwriter, member of the "Monkees"
1945- Davy Jones, singer, member of the "Monkees"
1957- Matt Lauer, "Good Morning America" TV anchor
1975- Tiger Woods, PGA golfer
December 31:
1869- Henri Matisse, painter
1943- John Denver, singer, songwriter, "Rocky Mountain High"
1959- Val Kilmer, actor
December 1:
1913 Mary Martin, actress, singer
1935- Woody Allen, Actor, director, comedian
1936- Lou Rawls, singer
1940- Richard Pryor, actor, comedian
1945- Bette Midler, actress, singer
December 2:
1859- Georges Seurat, painter
1863- Charles Ringling, formed Ringling Bros. circus
1954- Stone Phillips, TV journalist
1968- Lucy Liu, actress, movie "Charlie's Angels"
1973- Monica Seles, champion tennis player
1981- Britney Spears, singer
December 3:
1895- Anna Freud, psychoanalyst, daughter of Sigmund Freud
1930- Andy Williams, singer
1948- Ozzy Osbourne, actor, singer
1951- Rick Mears, auto racer
1960- Darryl Hannah, actress, lead actress in "Splash"
1965- Katerina Witt, champion Olympic figure skater
1968- Brendan Fraser, actor, "George of the Jungle"
December 4:
1892 Francisco Franco, Spanish Dictator
1949- Jeff Bridges, actor
1964- Marisa Tomei, actress, "Mona Lisa Vito" in movie "My Cousin Vinny"
1973- Tyra Banks, model, actress
December 5:
1782- Martin Van Buren, 8th U.S. President (1837-1841)
1839- George Armstrong Custer, cavalry officer, killed at the Little Big Horn
1901- Walt Disney, animator, entertainment, filmmaker
1932- "Little Richard" Penniman, singer, songwriter
1947- Jim Messina, singer
December 6:
1886- Joyce Kilmer, poet
1896- Ira Gershwin, lyricist, wrote lyrics for brother George
1906- Agnes Moorehead, actress, the mother "Endora" on TV series "Bewitched"
1955- Stephen Wright, comedian (New York, NY)
December 7:
1915- Eli Wallach, actor
1942- Harry Chapin, singer, songwriter
1947- Gregg Allman, singer, musician
December 8:
1765- Eli Whitney, invented the cotton gin
1894- James Thurber, humorist
1925- Sammy Davis Jr., actor, singer
1943- Jim Morrison, singer, songwriter
1953- Kim Basinger, actress
1966- Sinead O'Connor, singer
December 9:
1608 -John Milton, poet
1898- Emmett Kelly, clown
1912- Tip O'Neill, Massachusetts Congressman, Speaker of the House
1941 -Beau Bridges, actor
1957- Donny Osmond, singer, actor, "Donny & Marie"
December 10:
1830- Emily Dickinson, poet
1851- Melvil Dewey, librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System
1911- Chet Huntley, newscaster, co-anchor on the "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1928- Dan Blocker, actor, "Hoss Cartwright" on TV series "Bonanza"
1952- Susan Dey, actress
December 11:
1882- Fiorello La Guardia, New York City Mayor
1918- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist
1931- Rita Moreno, actress, singer
1942- Donna Mills, actress, "Abby Fairgate"on TV series "Knots Landing"
1944- Brenda Lee, singer
December 12:
1893- Edward G. Robinson, actor
1915 Frank Sinatra, actor, singer, actor
1923- Bob Barker, TV game show host,"Truth or Consequences" and long-time host of "The Price is Right"
1924- Ed Koch, New York City mayor
1959- Sheila Escoveda "Sheila E" , singer
December 13:
1818- Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States
1925- Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian
1949 -Ted Nugent, singer
December 14:
1503- Nostradamus, astrologer
1896- James Doolittle, World War II aviator
December 15:
1832- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower
1892- J. Paul Getty, oil billionaire, philanthropist
1916- Maurice H. Wilkins, biophysicist, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
1933- Tim Conway, actor, comedian, "McHales's Navy, "The Carol Burnett Show"
1949- Don Johnson, actor, "Miami Vice"
December 16:
1770- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
1901- Margaret Mead, anthropologist
December 17:
1917- Gene Rayburn, TV personality
1954- Bill Pullman, actor
December 18:
1886- Ty Cobb, MLB baseball player
1916- Betty Grable, actress
1947- Steven Spielberg, director, producer
1964- Brad Pitt, actor
December 19:
1790- Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer
1906- Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader
1920- David Susskind, TV journalist, producer
1933- Cicely Tyson, actress
1961- Reggie White, NFL football player
1972- Alyssa Milano, actress
December 20:
1868- Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer
1898- Irene Dunne, actress
1966- Kiefer Sutherland, actor
December 21:
1879- Joseph Stalin, Soviet Russia Dictator
1926- Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach
1935- Phil Donahue, TV talk show host
1937- Jane Fonda, actress, Vietnam War protester
1940- Frank Zappa, musician, songwriter
1954- Chris Evert, champion tennis player
1957 Ray Romano, actor, comedian, TV series "Everyone Loves Raymond"
December 22:
1912- Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States
1922- Barbara Billingsley, actress, "June Cleaver" on TV series "Leave it to Beaver"
1945- Diane Sawyer, TV news correspondent, journalist
1949- Maurice Gibb, singer, musician, member of the "Bee Gees", twin "Robin"
1949- Robin Gibb, singer,musician, member of the "Bee Gees", twin "Maurice"
December 23:
1805- Joseph Smith, founded the Mormon Church
1860- Harriet Monroe, poet
1926- Robert Bly, author
1943- Harry Shearer, actor, comedian
December 24:
1809- Kit Carson, frontiersman, soldier
1905- Howard Hughes, industrialist, aviator, producer, recluse
1931- Mary Higgins Clark, author
December 25:
1642- Sir Isaac Newton, scientist, mathematician
1821- Clara Barton, nurse, found the American Red Cross
1899- Humphrey Bogart, actor
1907- Cab Calloway, singer, bandleader
1918- Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President
1924- Rod Serling, host of "The Twilight Zone"
1946- Jimmy Buffett, singer, songwriter
1946- Larry Csonka, NFL Miami Dolphins Fullback
1947- Barbara Mandrell, singer
1949- Sissy Spacek, actress
1962- Norm McDonald, actor, comedian
1971- Dido, singer
December 26:
1893- Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist Leader
1914- Richard Widmark, actor
1921- Steve Allen, TV personality
December 27:
1571- Johannes Kepler, astronomer
1822 Louis Pasteur, chemist, bacteriologist
1943- Cokie Roberts, TV journalist
December 28:
1763- John Molson, founded the Molson brewery
1856- Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-1921)
1954- Denzel Washington, actor
December 29:
1808- Andrew Johnson, 17th U.S. President (1865-1869)
1936- Mary Tyler Moore, actress
1947- Ted Danson, actor, TV series "Cheers"
December 30:
1865- Rudyard Kipling, writer
1867- Simon Guggenheim, industrialist, philanthropist
1942- Michael Nesmith, singer, songwriter, member of the "Monkees"
1945- Davy Jones, singer, member of the "Monkees"
1957- Matt Lauer, "Good Morning America" TV anchor
1975- Tiger Woods, PGA golfer
December 31:
1869- Henri Matisse, painter
1943- John Denver, singer, songwriter, "Rocky Mountain High"
1959- Val Kilmer, actor
