Underdog Day
December 17
Yearly Date: Every third Friday in December
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“I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one’s dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.”
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