December 1, 1913-  Mary Martin, actress, singer

December 1, 1933-  Lou Rawls, singer, blues, jazz and pop music

December 1, 1935-  Woody Allen, Actor, director, comedian

December 1, 1936-  Lou Rawls, singer

December 1, 1939-  Lee Trevino, PGA golfer

December 1, 1940-  Richard Pryor, actor, comedian

December 1, 1945-  Bette Midler, actress, singer

December 1, 1951-  Treat Williams, actor

December 2, 1859-  Georges Seurat, painter

December 2, 1863-  Charles Ringling, formed Ringling Bros. circus

December 2, 1925-  Julie Harris, actress

December 2, 1948-  Cathy Lee Crosby, actress

December 2, 1954-  Stone Phillips, TV journalist, Dateline

December 2, 1967-  Lucy Liu, actress, movie Charlie’s Angels, Television series Elementary

December 2, 1973-  Monica Seles, champion tennis player

December 2, 1981-  Britney Spears, singer

December 3, 1895-  Anna Freud, psychoanalyst, daughter of Sigmund Freud

December 3, 1930-  Andy Williams, singer

December 3, 1948-  Ozzy Osbourne, actor, singer

December 3, 1951-  Rick Mears, auto racer

December 3, 1960-  Darryl Hannah, actress, lead actress in “Splash”

December 3, 1965-  Katerina Witt, champion Olympic figure skater

December 3, 1968-  Brendan Fraser, actor, “George of the Jungle”

December 4, 1892-  Francisco Franco, Spanish Dictator

December 4, 1949-  Jeff Bridges, actor

December 4, 1964-  Marisa Tomei, actress, “Mona Lisa Vito” in movie “My Cousin Vinny”

December 4, 1973-  Tyra Banks, model, actress

December 5, 1782-  Martin Van Buren, 8th U.S. President (1837-1841)

December 5, 1839-  George Armstrong Custer, cavalry officer, killed at the Little Big Horn

December 5, 1901-  Walt Disney, animator, entertainment, filmmaker

December 5, 1932-  “Little Richard” Penniman, singer, songwriter

December 5, 1947-  Jim Messina, singer

December 5, 1951-  Morgan Brittany, actress

December 5, 1952-  Michael Dorn, actor

December 5, 1985-  Frankie Muniz, “Malcom” on TV series “Malcolm in the Middle”, “Agent Cody Banks”

December 6, 1886-  Joyce Kilmer, poet

December 6, 1896-  Ira Gershwin, lyricist, wrote lyrics for brother George

December 6, 1906-  Agnes Moorehead, actress, the mother “Endora” on TV series “Bewitched”

December 6, 1920-  Dave Brubeck, jazz musician

December 6, 1955-  Stephen Wright, comedian (New York, NY)

December 6, 1957-  Andrew Cuomo, New York state governor, Clinton Administration HUD Secretary, son of Mario Cuomo

December 7, 1761-  Marie Tussaud, created “Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork Museum”

December 7, 1915-  Eli Wallach, actor

December 7, 1923-  Ted Knight, actor, news anchor on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”

December 7, 1942-  Harry Chapin, singer, songwriter

December 7, 1947-  Gregg Allman, singer, musician

December 7, 1947-  Johnny Bench, Cincinnati Reds baseball catcher

December 7, 1956-  Larry Bird, NBA Boston Celtics basketball player

December 7, 1958-  Edd Hall, “Tonight Show” announcer

December 8, 1765-  Eli Whitney, invented the cotton gin

December 8, 1894-  James Thurber, humorist

December 8, 1925-  Sammy Davis Jr., actor, singer

December 8, 1930-  Maximilian Schell, actor

December 8, 1933-  Flip Wilson, comedian

December 8, 1943-  Jim Morrison, singer, songwriter

December 8, 1953-  Kim Basinger, actress

December 8, 1964-  Teri Hatcher, actress, “Louis and Clark”, “Desperate Housewives”

December 8, 1966-  Sinead O’Connor, singer

December 9, 1608-  John Milton, poet

December 9, 1898-  Emmett Kelly, clown

December 9, 1912-  Tip O’Neill, Massachusetts Congressman, Speaker of the House

December 9, 1916-  Kirk Douglas, actor

December 9, 1922-  Redd Foxx, actor, comedian

December 9, 1928-  Dick Van Patten, actor, played the dad on “Eight is Enough”

December 9, 1930-  Buck Henry, screenwriter, “The Graduate”

December 9, 1941 – Beau Bridges, actor

December 9, 1953-  John Malkovich, actor

December 9, 1957-  Donny Osmond, singer, actor, “Donny & Marie”

December 10, 1830-  Emily Dickinson, American poet

December 10, 1851-  Melvil Dewey, librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System

December 10, 1911-  Chet Huntley, newscaster, co-anchor on the “Huntley-Brinkley Report”

December 10, 1914-  Dorothy Lamour, actress, singer

December 10, 1928-  Dan Blocker, actor, “Hoss Cartwright” on TV series “Bonanza”

December 10, 1946-  Gloria Loring, actress, singer

December 10, 1952-  Susan Dey, actress

December 11, 1882-  Fiorello La Guardia, New York City Mayor

December 11, 1918-  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist

December 11, 1931-  Rita Moreno, actress, singer

December 11, 1942-  Donna Mills, actress, “Abby Fairgate”on TV series “Knots Landing”

December 11, 1944-  Brenda Lee, singer

December 11, 1945-  Teri Garr, actress

December 11, 1954-  Jermaine Jackson, singer, musician, brother of Michael Jackson

December 12, 1893-  Edward G. Robinson, actor

December 12, 1915-  Frank Sinatra, actor, singer, actor

December 12, 1923-  Bob Barker, TV game show host * ”Truth or Consequences” and long-time host of “The Price is Right”

December 12, 1924-  Ed Koch, New York City mayor

December 12, 1938-  Connie Francis, singer

December 12, 1941-  Dionne Warwick, singer

December 12, 1959-  Sheila Escoveda “Sheila E” , singer

December 13, 1818-  Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States

December 13, 1913-  Archie Moore, champion boxer

December 13, 1925-  Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian

December 13, 1927-  Christopher Plummer, actor

December 13, 1941-  John Davidson, actor, singer

December 13, 1949 – Ted Nugent, singer

December 13, 1989-  Taylor Swift, singer

December 14, 1503-  Nostradamus, astrologer

December 14, 1896-  James Doolittle, World War II aviator

December 14, 1914-  Morey Amsterdam, actor, comedian, played “Buddy” on TV series “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

December 14, 1922-  Don Hewitt, TV producer

December 14, 1935-  Lee Remick, actress

December 14, 1946-  Patty Duke, actress, TV series “The Patty Duke Show”

December 15, 1832-  Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower

December 15, 1892-  J. Paul Getty, oil billionaire, philanthropist

December 15, 1916-  Maurice H. Wilkins, biophysicist, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

December 15, 1933-  Tim Conway, actor, comedian, “McHales’s Navy, “The Carol Burnett Show”

December 15, 1942-  Dave Clark, musician, leader of the “Dave Clark Five”

December 15, 1949-  Don Johnson, actor, “Miami Vice”

December 15, 1968-  Garrett Wang, actor

December 16, 1770-  Ludwig van Beethoven, composer

December 16, 1901-  Margaret Mead, anthropologist

December 16, 1938-  Liv Ullmann, actress

December 16, 1941-  Lesley Stahl, TV news correspondent

December 16, 1963-  Benjamin Bratt, actor

December 16, 1987-  Hallee Hirsh, actress

December 17, 1917-  Gene Rayburn, TV personality

December 17, 1945-  Ernie Hudson, actor

December 17, 1954-  Bill Pullman, actor

December 18, 1886-  Ty Cobb, MLB baseball player

December 18, 1916-  Betty Grable, actress

December 18, 1947-  Steven Spielberg, director, producer

December 18, 1964-  Brad Pitt, actor

December 18, 1964-  “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, WWF wrestler

December 18, 1978-  Katie Holmes, actress

December 18, 1980-  Christina Aguilera, singer

December 19, 1790-  Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer

December 19, 1906-  Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader

December 19, 1920-  David Susskind, TV journalist, producer

December 19, 1933-  Cicely Tyson, actress

December 19, 1944-  Tim Reid, actor

December 19, 1946-  Robert Urich, actor

December 19, 1961-  Reggie White, NFL football player

December 19, 1972-  Alyssa Milano, actress

December 20, 1868-  Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer

December 20, 1898-  Irene Dunne, actress

December 20, 1952-  Jenny Agutter, actress

December 20, 1966-  Kiefer Sutherland, actor

December 21, 1879-  Joseph Stalin, Soviet Russia Dictator

December 21, 1892-  Walter Hagen, golfer

December 21, 1926-  Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach

December 21, 1935-  Phil Donahue, TV talk show host

December 21, 1937-  Jane Fonda, actress, Vietnam War protester

December 21, 1940-  Frank Zappa, musician, songwriter

December 21, 1954-  Chris Evert, champion tennis player

December 21, 1957-  Ray Romano, actor, comedian, TV series “Everyone Loves Raymond”

December 21, 1959-  Florence Griffith Joyner, champion Olympic sprinter

December 22, 1907-  Peggy Ashcroft, actress

December 22, 1912-  Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States

December 22, 1922-  Barbara Billingsley, actress, “June Cleaver” on TV series “Leave it to Beaver”

December 22, 1945-  Diane Sawyer, TV news correspondent, journalist

December 22, 1949-  Maurice Gibb, singer, musician, member of the “Bee Gees”, twin “Robin”

December 22, 1949-  Robin Gibb, singer * musician, member of the “Bee Gees”, twin “Maurice”

December 22, 1951-  Jan Stephenson, LPGA golfer

December 23, 1805-  Joseph Smith, founded the Mormon Church

December 23, 1860-  Harriet Monroe, poet

December 23, 1926-  Robert Bly, author

December 23, 1943-  Harry Shearer, actor, comedian

December 23, 1948-  Susan Lucci, Emmy winning actress

December 24, 1809-  Kit Carson, frontiersman, soldier

December 24, 1818-  James Prescott Joule, physicist, inventor

December 24, 1905-  Howard Hughes, industrialist, aviator, producer, recluse

December 24, 1907-  I. F. Stone, journalist

December 24, 1922-  Ava Gardner, actress

December 24, 1931-  Mary Higgins Clark, author

December 24, 1971-  Ricky Martin, singer

December 24, 1974-  Ryan Seacrest, host of “American Idol”

December 25, 1642-  Sir Isaac Newton, scientist, mathematician

December 25, 1821-  Clara Barton, nurse, found the American Red Cross

December 25, 1899-  Humphrey Bogart, actor

December 25, 1907-  Cab Calloway, singer, bandleader

December 25, 1918-  Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President

December 25, 1924-  Rod Serling, host of “The Twilight Zone”

December 25, 1946-  Jimmy Buffett, singer, songwriter

December 25, 1946-  Larry Csonka, NFL Miami Dolphins Fullback

December 25, 1947-  Barbara Mandrell, singer

December 25, 1949-  Sissy Spacek, actress

December 25, 1962-  Norm McDonald, actor, comedian

December 25, 1971-  Dido, singer

December 26, 1893-  Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist Leader

December 26, 1914-  Richard Widmark, actor

December 26, 1921-  Steve Allen, TV personality

December 26, 1954-  Susan Butcher, sled dog racer

December 26, 1971-  Jared Leto, actor

December 27, 1571-  Johannes Kepler, astronomer

December 27, 1822-  Louis Pasteur, chemist, bacteriologist

December 27, 1943-  Cokie Roberts, TV journalist

Decewmber 27, 1971-  Savannah Guthrie, TV Anchor, Journalist “The Today Show”

December 28, 1763-  John Molson, founded the Molson brewery

December 28, 1856-  Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-1921)

December 28, 1934-  Maggie Smith, actress

December 28, 1954-  Denzel Washington, actor

December 28, 1964-  Malcolm Gets, actor

December 29, 1808-  Andrew Jackson, 17th U.S. President (1865-1869)

December 29, 1936-  Mary Tyler Moore, actress

December 29, 1938-  Jon Voight, actor

December 29, 1947-  Ted Danson, actor, TV series “Cheers”

December 30, 1865-  Rudyard Kipling, writer

December 30, 1867-  Simon Guggenheim, industrialist, philanthropist

December 30, 1914-  Bert Parks, TV personality, hosted “Miss America” pageant for 25 year

December 30, 1928-  Bo Diddley, singer, songwriter

December 30, 1935-  Sandy Koufax, MLB baseball pitcher

December 30, 1938-  Joseph Bologna, actor

December 30, 1942-  Michael Nesmith, singer, songwriter, member of the “Monkees”

December 30, 1945-  Davy Jones, singer, member of the “Monkees”

December 30, 1957-  Matt Lauer, “Today Show” TV anchor

December 30, 1959-  Tracey Ullman, actress

December 30, 1960-  Julianne Moore, actress

December 30, 1975-  Tiger Woods, PGA golfer

December 30, 1984-  LeBron James, NBA basketball player

December 31, 1869-  Henri Matisse, painter

December 31, 1880-  George Marshall, Secretary of State, developed the Marshall Plan

December 31, 1937-  Anthony Hopkins, actor

December 31, 1941-  Sarah Miles, actress

December 31, 1943-  John Denver, singer, songwriter, “Rocky Mountain High”

December 31, 1943-  Ben Kingsley, actor

December 31, 1947-  Tim Matheson, actor

December 31, 1948-  Donna Summer, singer

December 31, 1959-  Val Kilmer, actor