Saturday, December 19, 2015

December 20 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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Birthdays

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Notable

1494 – Oronce Finé  (d. 1555)
      French mathematician and cartographer
1537 – John III of Sweden (d. 17 Nov 1592)
      King of Sweden, 1568-1592
1579*  John Fletcher  (*baptized; buried 29 Aug 1625)
      English Jacobean playwright  wikiquote
1626 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff  (d. 1692)
      German scholar and politician
1641 – Urban Hjärne  (d. 1724)
      Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician
1717 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes  (d. 1787)
      French politician and diplomat
      French Minister of Foreign Affairs
1740 – Arthur Lee, American physician and diplomat (d. 1792)
1780:  John Wilson Croker  (d. 10 Aug 1857)
      Irish statesman and author
1786 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
1792 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
1833 – Samuel Mudd, American physician (d. 1883)
1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott  (d. 1926)
      English theologian, author, and educator
1841 – Ferdinand Buisson  (d. 1932)
      French academic and politician
      Nobel Prize laureate
1860 – Dan Leno, English actor (d. 1904)
1861 – Ferdinand Bonn, German actor (d. 1933)
1861 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
1865 – Elsie de Wolfe  (d. 1950)
      American actress and interior decorator
1868 – Harvey Samuel Firestone  (d. 1938)
      American businessman
      founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
1869 – Charley Grapewin, American actor and singer (d. 1956)
1873 – Kan'ichi Asakawa  (d. 1948)
      Japanese historian, author, and academic
1873 – Mehmet Akif Ersoy  (d. 1936)
      Turkish poet, academic, and politician
1874 – Frederick Steep, Canadian soccer player (d. 1956)
1881 – Branch Rickey  (d. 1965)
      American baseball player and manager
1886 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman  (d. 1974)
      American tennis player
1888 – Yitzhak Baer  (d. 1980)
      German-Israeli historian and academic
1888 – Fred Merkle  (d. 1958)
      American baseball player and manager
1890 – Yvonne Arnaud, French actress and singer (d. 1958)
1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovský  (d. 1967)
      Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1891 – Erik Almlöf, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1971)
1893 – Piero Campelli, Italian footballer (d. 1946)
1894 – Robert Menzies  (d. 1978)
      Australian lawyer and politician
      12th Prime Minister of Australia
1895:  Susanne Langer  (d. 17 Jul 1985)
      American philosopher
1898 – Konstantinos Dovas  (d. 1973)
      Greek general and politician
      156th Prime Minister of Greece
1898 – Irene Dunne  (d. 4 Sep 1990)
      American actress and singer
1899:  Martyn Lloyd-Jones  (d. 1 Mar 1981)
      Welsh Protestant minister, author, and medical doctor
1901 – Robert J. Van de Graaff  (d. 16 Jan 1967)
      American physicist and academic
      invented the Van de Graaff generator
1902 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 25 Aug 1942)
1902 – Sidney Hook  (d. 1989)
      American philosopher and author
1902:  Max Lerner  (d. 5 Jun 1992)
      American journalist, columnist, and educator
1904 – Spud Davis  (d. 1984)
      American baseball player, coach, and manager
1904 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (d. 1977)
1905 – Bill O'Reilly  (d. 1992)
      Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1907 – Paul Francis Webster  (d. 1984)
      American soldier and songwriter
1908 – Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
1909 – Vakkom Majeed  (d. 2000)
      Indian journalist and politician
1911 – Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009)
1914 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr.  (d. 30 Jul 1913)
      American lieutenant, publisher, and politician
1915 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet (d. 1995)
1916 – Michel Chartrand  (d. 2010)
      Canadian union leader and activist
1916:  Morrie Schwartz  (d. 4 Nov 1995)
      American sociology professor
1916:  Lloyd Shearer (aka Walter Scott)  (d. 27 May 2001)
      American writer, journalist, and celebrity gossip columnist
      writer of "Walter Scott's Personality Parade" in Parade
           magazine, 1958-1991
1917 – David Bohm  (d. 27 Oct 1992)
      American physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher
1917 – Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (d. 1997)
1917 – Audrey Totter, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1918 – Jean Marchand
      Canadian union leader and politician
      43rd Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1988)
1922 – George Roy Hill  (d. 2002)
      American director, producer, and screenwriter
1922 – Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter
1924 – Judy LaMarsh  (d. 1980)
      Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician
      42nd Secretary of State for Canada
1925 – Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1926 – Geoffrey Howe  (d. 2015)
      Welsh lawyer and politician
      Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1926 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff  (d. 2009)
      German lawyer and politician
      German Federal Minister of Economics
1927 – Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark
      English engineer
1927 – Charlie Callas  (d. 2011)
      American actor and drummer
1927 – Kim Young-sam  (d. 2015)
      South Korean soldier and politician
      7th President of South Korea
1928:  Lester Louis Brown  (d. 4 Nov 2013)
      American journalist and author
1930:  Jerry Perenchio
      American businessman
      chairman and CEO of Univision, 1993-2006
1931 – Ike Skelton, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1931 – Mala Powers, American actress (d. 2007)
1931 – Terry Sanders
      American director, producer, and screenwriter
1931:  Charles E. Young
      American university administrator and professor
1932 – Leslie Adams, American composer and educator
1932 – John Hillerman, American actor
1933 – Jean Carnahan, American author and politician
1933:  Gordon Getty
      American businessman, investor, philanthropist,
            and classical music composer
      4th child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty
1933 – Olavi Salonen, Finnish runner
1933 – Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist
1935 – Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster
1935 – William Julius Wilson
      American sociologist and academic
1937 – Charles Denton, English businessman
1938 – John Harbison, American composer and academic
1939 – Tony Bentley, English footballer
1939 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
1940 – Pat Chapman
      English chef and author, founded The Curry Club
1941 – Tommy Cole
      American actor, singer, and makeup artist
1942 – Rana Bhagwandas  (d. 2015)
      Pakistani lawyer and judge
      Chief Justice of Pakistan
1942 – Bob Hayes  (d. 2002)
      American sprinter and football player
1942 – Jean-Claude Trichet, French banker and economist
1944 – Bobby Colomby
      American drummer and producer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1944 – Jimmie F. Skaggs, American actor (d. 2004)
1945 – Peter Criss
      American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
      (Kiss, Wicked Lester, and Chelsea)
1945:  Tom Tancredo
      American politician
      U.S. Representative, R. CO, 1999-2009
1945 – Sivakant Tiwari  (d. 2010)
      Indian-Singaporean lawyer and author
1946 – Uri Geller, Israeli-English magician and psychic
1946 – Lesley Judd, English dancer and television host
1946 – Lloyd Mumphord, American football player
1946 – Sonny Perdue
      American captain and politician
      81st Governor of Georgia, 2003-2011
1946 – John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
1946 – Dick Wolf
      American director, producer, and screenwriter
      created Law & Order franchise
1947 – Roger Alton, English journalist
1947 – Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer-songwriter
1947 – Bo Ryan, American basketball player and coach
1948 – Alan Parsons
      English keyboard player and producer
      (The Alan Parsons Project)
1948 – Carol Smart, English sociologist and academic
1948 – Mitsuko Uchida, Japanese-English pianist
1948 – Stevie Wright
      English-Australian singer-songwriter (The Easybeats)
1949 – Soumaïla Cissé, Malian engineer and politician
1949 – Cecil Cooper, American baseball player and manager
1949 – Oscar Gamble, American baseball player
1949 – Leigh Hamilton  (d. 2012)
      New Zealand-American actress
1950 – Geoffrey Grimmett
      English mathematician and academic
1950 – Arturo Márquez, Mexican-American composer
1951 – Lynne Featherstone, English blogger and politician
1951 – Christopher Le Brun, English painter and sculptor
1951 – Peter May, Scottish author and screenwriter
1951 – Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan  (1999-2007)
      Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
1951 – Marta Russell, American author and activist (d. 2013)
1951 – Joey Silvera, American porn actor and director
1952 – Jenny Agutter, English actress
1952 – Sky Gilbert
      Canadian drag queen performer, actor, and author
1954 – Michael Badalucco, American actor and producer
1954 – Sandra Cisneros, American author and poet
1955 – David Breashears
      American mountaineer, director, and producer
1955 – Ed Kuepper
      German-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (The Saints, Laughing Clowns, and The Apartments)
1955 – Rory Markas, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
1955 – Binali Yıldırım, Turkish politician
1956 – Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
      Mauritanian general and politician, President of Mauritania
1956 – Guy Babylon  (d. 2009)
      American keyboard player and songwriter
1956 – Blanche Baker, American actress and screenwriter
1956 – Junji Hirata, Japanese wrestler
1956 – Andrew Mackenzie, Scottish businessman
1957 – Stephen Bicknell, English organ builder (d. 2007)
1957 – Billy Bragg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Anna Vissi
      Cypriot singer-songwriter and actress (Epikouri)
1957 – Anita Ward, American singer
1957 – Mike Watt
      American singer-songwriter and bass player
      (Banyan, Minutemen, Dos, The Stooges, and Firehose)
1958 – Doug Nordquist, American high jumper
1958 – James Thomson, American biologist and academic
1959 – Simon Hughes, English cricketer and journalist
1959 – Hildegard Körner, German runner
1959 – Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
      Polish physicist and politician
      12th Prime Minister of Poland
1959 – Trent Tucker
      American basketball player and sportscaster
1960 – Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaican-Canadian author
1960 – Kim Ki-duk
      South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Mohammad Fouad
      Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor
1961 – Mike Keneally
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dethklok)
1961 – Freddie Spencer, American motorcycle racer
1961:  Bill Walsh
      American author and journalist
      copy editor at The Washington Post
1963 – Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo
1963 – Joel Gretsch, American actor
1963 – Iqbal Theba, Pakistani-American actor
1964 – Mark Coleman
      American mixed martial artist and wrestler
1965 – Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor and director
1965 – Rich Gannon, American football player and sportscaster
1966 – Matt Neal, English race car driver
1966 – Veronica Pershina
      Russian-American figure skater and coach
1966 – Chris Robinson
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (The Black Crowes, Chris Robinson Brotherhood)
1968 – Joe Cornish, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1968 – Karl Wendlinger, Austrian race car driver
1969 – Alain de Botton, Swiss-English philosopher and author
1969 – Brian O'Halloran, American actor
1969 – Zahra Ouaziz, Moroccan runner
1969 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (d. 2000)
1970 – Nicole de Boer, Canadian actress
1970 – Grant Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1970 – Alister McRae, Scottish race car driver
1970:  Todd Phillips (born Todd Bunzl)
      American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
1970 – Jörg Schmidt, German footballer
1971 – Roger J. Beaujard
      American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
      (Mortician and Malignancy)
1972 – Anders Odden
      Norwegian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
      (Cadaver, Magenta, Apoptygma Berzerk, Satyricon,
            Celtic Frost, and Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult)
1972 – Anja Rücker, German sprinter
1973 – Maarja Kangro, Estonian author and poet
1973 – David Nedohin, Canadian curler and sportscaster
1973 – Cory Stillman, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Paul Linger, English footballer
1975 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
1975 – Jaydy Michel, Mexican model and actress
1976 – Aubrey Huff, American baseball player and radio host
1976 – Jang Hyuk, South Korean actor
1976 – Adam Powell
      Welsh game designer and businessman
      co-founded Meteor Games
1976 – Ramon Stoppelenburg, Dutch businessman and author
1976 – Nenad Vučković, Croatian footballer
1978 – Andrei Markov, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer
1978 – Bouabdellah Tahri, French runner
1979 – David DeJesus, American baseball player
1979 – George Lamb, English radio and television host
1979 – Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist
1979 – Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican-American actor
1979 – Benedikte Kruse, Norwegian singer and actor (Pitsj)
1980 – Israel Castro, Mexican footballer
1980 – Ashley Cole, English footballer
1980 – Anthony da Silva, French-Portuguese footballer
1980 – Martín Demichelis, Argentinian footballer
1980 – Fitz Hall, English footballer
1981 – Royal Ivey, American basketball player
1981 – Darya Pchelnik, Belarusian hammer thrower
1981 – James Shields, American baseball player
1981 – Roy Williams, American football player
1982 – Keny Arkana, French rapper
1982 – Mohammad Asif, Pakistani cricketer
1982 – David Cook
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Axium and Midwest Kings)
1982 – Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer
1982 – Masahiro Kuranuki, Japanese actor
1982 – David Wright, American baseball player
1983 – Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Chelsea Johnson, American pole vaulter
1983 – Lucy Pinder, English model and actress
1983 – Darren Sammy, Saint Lucian cricketer
1983 – Lara Stone, Dutch model
1983 – Takuma Terashima, Japanese voice actor
1983 – Adrián Varela, Mexican singer
1984 – Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
1984 – Bobby Morley, Australian actor and singer
1984 – David Tavaré, Spanish singer and DJ
1985 – Jillian Grace, American model
1985 – Gilbert Kirwa, Kenyan runner
1986 – Benjamin Brierley, English-German rugby player
1986 – Anoop Desai, American singer-songwriter
1987 – Yutaka Otsuka, Japanese baseball player
1987 – Tariel Zintiridis, Greek martial artist
1988 – Andrés Bottiglieri, Italian–Argentinian footballer
1989 – Allan Hyde, Danish actor, singer, and screenwriter
1990Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque (bka JoJo)
       American singer-songwriter and actress
1990 – Filipp Breytveyt, Russian footballer
1991 – Hunter Gomez, American actor and producer
1991:  Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
1991 – Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer, FC Basel
1992 – Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
1994 – Jacko Gill, New Zealand shot putter
1994 – Nazriya Nazim, Indian actress
1998 – Ivett Tóth, Hungarian figure skater
2002 – Yuuna Sugiyama, Japanese actress

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1912:  Margaret (Seaton) Taschereau  (d. 1996)


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Deaths

VIP

1994 – Dean Rusk  (b. 1909)
      American colonel, lawyer, and politician
      54th United States Secretary of State


Notable

217 – Pope Zephyrinus
860 – Æthelbald of Wessex (b. 834)
1295 – Margaret of Provence (b. 1221)
1355 – Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (b. 1308)
1539 – Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506)
1590 – Ambroise Paré  (b. 1510)
      French physician and surgeon
1722 – Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
1723 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus  (b. 1652)
      German physician and botanist
1740 – Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon  (b. 1675)
      English field marshal and politician
      Governor of Portsmouth
1765 – Louis, Dauphin of France (b. 1729)
1768 – Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni  (b. 1692)
      Italian poet and academic
1783 – Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729)
1812 – Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788)
1820 – John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750)
1856 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820)
1862 – Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)
1880 – Gaspar Tochman  (b. 1797)
      Polish-American colonel and lawyer
1893 – George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)
1915 – Upendrakishore Ray  (b. 1863)
      Indian painter and composer
1916 – Louis de Champsavin, French horse rider (b. 1867)
1917 – Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist (b. 1882)
1920 – Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
1921 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler  (b. 1850)
      German general and politician
1927 – Frederick Semple  (b. 1872)
      American golfer and tennis player
1929 – Émile Loubet  (b. 1838)
      French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France
1935 – Martin O'Meara  (b. 1882)
      Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient
1937 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
1938 – Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)
1938 – Matilda Howell, American archer (b. 1859)
1941 – Igor Severyanin  (b. 1887)
      Russian-Estonian poet and author
1950 – Enrico Mizzi  (b. 1885)
      Maltese lawyer and politician
      6th Prime Minister of Malta
1954 – James Hilton  (b. 1900)
      English-American author and screenwriter
1956 – Ramón Carrillo  (b. 1906)
      Argentinian neurologist and physician
1959 – Juhan Simm  (b. 1885)
      Estonian composer and conductor
1961 – Moss Hart  (b. 1904)
      American director and playwright
1961 – Earle Page  (b. 1880)
      Australian soldier and politician
      11th Prime Minister of Australia
1968 – John Steinbeck  (b. 1902)
      American author, Nobel Prize laureate
1969 – Giles Chippindall  (b. 1893)
      Australian public servant
1971 – Roy O. Disney  (b. 1893)
      American businessman
      co-founded The Walt Disney Company
1972 – Adolfo Orsi, Italian industrialist (b. 1888)
1973 – Luis Carrero Blanco  (b. 1904)
      Spanish admiral and politician
      69th President of the Government of Spain
1973 – Bobby Darin  (b. 1936)
      American singer-songwriter and actor
1974 – R. A. Bevan, English advertiser (b. 1901)
1974 – Rajani Palme Dutt  (b. 1896)
      English journalist and politician
1974 – André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
1976 – Richard J. Daley  (b. 1902)
      American lawyer and politician
      48th Mayor of Chicago
1981 – Dimitris Rontiris  (b. 1899)
      Greek actor and director
1982 – Arthur Rubinstein  (b. 1887)
      Polish-American pianist and composer
1984 – Stanley Milgram, American psychologist (b. 1933)
1986 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
1989 – Kurt Böhme, German opera singer (b. 1908)
1991 – Simone Beck, French chef and author (b. 1904)
1991 – Sam Rabin  (b. 1903)
      English wrestler, singer, and sculptor
1991 – Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
1993 – W. Edwards Deming  (b. 1900)
      American statistician, academic, and author
1993 – Hulusi Kentmen, Turkish actor (b. 1912)
1996 – Carl Sagan  (b. 1934)
      American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
1997 – Juzo Itami  (b. 1933)
      Japanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1997 – Denise Levertov  (b. 1923)
      English-American poet and author
1997 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
1998 – Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
1998 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin  (b. 1916)
      English physiologist and biophysicist
      Nobel Prize laureate
1998 – C. P. Lyons  (b. 1915)
      Canadian historian and author
1999 – Riccardo Freda  (b. 1909)
      Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter
1999 – Hank Snow  (b. 1914)
      Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
2001 – Foster Brooks, American actor (b. 1912)
2001 – Léopold Sédar Senghor  (b. 1906)
      Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal
2002 – Bernard King, Australian actor and chef (b. 1934)
2005 – M. Moorthy, Malaysian soldier and mountaineer
2005 – Raoul Bott  (b. 1923)
      Hungarian-American mathematician
2006 – Anne Rogers Clark  (b. 1929)
      American dog breeder and trainer
2006 – Piergiorgio Welby, Italian poet and activist (b. 1945)
2006 – Shi Yuejun, Chinese spree killer (b. 1970)
2007 – Savaş Dinçel, Turkish actor (b. 1942)
2008 – Adrian Mitchell  (b. 1932)
      English author, poet, and playwright
2009 – Mairoon Ali, Trinidadian actress (b. 1954)
2009 – Brittany Murphy  (b. 1977)
      American actress and singer
2009 – Arnold Stang, American actor and singer (b. 1918)
2010 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (b. 1949)
2010 – Steve Landesberg  (b. 1936)
      American actor and screenwriter
2010 – James Robert Mann  (b. 1920)
      American colonel, lawyer, and politician
2010 – K. P. Ratnam  (b. 1914)
      Sri Lankan academic and politician
2011 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (b. 1926)
2012 – Stan Charlton  (b. 1929)
      English footballer and manager
2012 – Robert Juniper  (b. 1929)
      Australian painter and sculptor
2012 – Eagle Keys  (b. 1923)
      American-Canadian football player and coach
2012 – Jimmy McCracklin  (b. 1921)
      American singer-songwriter and pianist
2012 – Victor Merzhanov  (b. 1919)
      Russian pianist and educator
2013 – Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930)
2013 – Lord Infamous  (b. 1973)
      American rapper (Three 6 Mafia)
2013 – Nelly Omar  (b. 1911)
      Argentinian actress and singer
2013 – Masafumi Ōura  (b. 1969)
      Japanese volleyball player and coach
2013 – Reginaldo Rossi  (b. 1944)
      Brazilian singer-songwriter
2013 – Vivian St. John, American wrestler (b. 1950)
2014 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark  (b. 1929)
      Swedish surgeon and academic
2014 – John Freeman  (b. 1915)
      English lawyer, politician, and diplomat
      British Ambassador to the United States
2014 – Ranulph Glanville  (b. 1946)
      English architect and academic
2014 – Bob Lanier  (b. 1925)
      American lawyer, banker, and politician
      58th Mayor of Houston
2014 – William Lowell Putnam III  (b. 1924)
      American mountaineer and businessman


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