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100 people born today: December 2
Albert Baldwin Wood was an inventor and engineer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from... more » | |
Dumebi Agbakoba, was brought up in Lagos, Nigeria and then moved to England where she began her... more » | |
Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls was an American recording artist, voice actor, songwriter, and record... more » | |
John Joseph Cantwell was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. more » | |
Eugene "Pooh" Jeter III is an American-Ukrainian professional basketball player. A 5'11" point... more » | |
Derrick Jabar Gaffney is an American football wide receiver who has played for five different... more » | |
Igor Nikolayevich Rodionov is a Russian general and Duma deputy. He is best known as a hardline... more » | |
Abbas Saad is an Australian former international soccer player. more » | |
Igor Melher is a Bosnian football player currently playing for HŠK Zrinjski Mostar in the... more » | |
Joe Nickell is a prominent American skeptical investigator of the paranormal. He also works as... more » | |
Lisa Fischer is an American R&B vocalist and songwriter. She rose to fame in 1991 with her debut... more » | |
Akiva D. "Kiv" Schaffer is an American writer for Saturday Night Live, film director,... more » | |
Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist, politician, and President of Poland. He was the... more » | |
Francisco Romero López Spanish bullfighter, known as Curro Romero. Born in Camas, near... more » | |
Zain al-Din Muhammad Abdul Hady is an Egyptian researcher, novelist and writer. more » | |
Zoë Isabella Kravitz is an American actress, singer and model. She is the only child of musician... more » | |
John Njoroge Michuki was a Kenyan politician and businessman. He was born at Muguru village,... more » | |
Mian Muhammad Mansha is a prominent Pakistani industrialist and entrepreneur who is officially... more » | |
John Christian Galliquio Castro is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a centre-back. He... more » | |
Tunç Hamarat is a Turkish chess player living in Austria and the sixteenth ICCF World Champion,... more » | |
Duncan J. D. Smith FRGS is a British travel writer, photographer, historian, and explorer. more » | |
Ledi Sayadaw U Ñanadhaja was an influential Theravada Buddhist monk. He was recognized from a... more » | |
Hsu Ming-Chieh, born December 1, 1976 in Kaohsiung County, now part of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan is... more » | |
Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku, also known as Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek, Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek or... more » | |
Federico Faggin is an Italian-born and educated physicist, naturalized US citizen, widely known... more » | |
Darren Andrew "D.A." Points is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. more » | |
Ewa Drzyzga is a Polish journalist and TV presenter, who hosts talk-show Rozmowy w Toku on... more » | |
Étienne Maurice Falconet is counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, whose... more » | |
Jonathan Coulton is an American singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and... more » | |
Liam Highfield is an English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010, with... more » | |
Anandan Sivamani is a film score composer. more » | |
Chanel Iman Robinson is an American model, known professionally as Chanel Iman. She is best... more » | |
Michael David Gillis is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and current president... more » | |
Udit Narayan Jha popularly known as Udit Narayan, is a Nepali playback singer in commercial,... more » | |
Sir John William Evans, CMG was an Australian politician, a member of the Tasmanian House of... more » | |
Anne Cox Chambers was born on December 1, 1919. She is a billionaire media proprietor. Anne is... more » | |
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and... more » | |
Marta Belen was an American opera singer, artist, and music coach. She was the first American to... more » | |
Tsai Duei is a politician who served as the Minister of Transportation and Communications of the... more » | |
Janelle Monáe Robinson, known as Janelle Monáe, is an American R&B and soul musician, composer... more » | |
Zeng Peiyan is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of... more » | |
John Bunch was an American jazz pianist. more » | |
Nicholas Thomas Wright is an Anglican bishop and a leading New Testament scholar. He is... more » | |
Guðmundur Magni Ásgeirsson, is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He is also currently the... more » | |
Rich Ferguson, aka "The Ice Breaker", is an American magician, entertainer, inventor and... more » | |
Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish-English singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits... more » | |
Heȟáka Sápa was a famous Wičháša Wakȟáŋ of the Oglala Lakota. He was Heyoka and a second cousin... more » | |
Robert McClelland Barr was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He also made some appearances as an... more » | |
Bradford Phillip "Brad" Delson is an American musician, best known as the guitarist and one of... more » | |
Pei Encai is a Chinese football manager and a former player. more » | |
Mohammad Kaif is an Indian cricketer. He is a thinly built cricketer who made it to the national... more » | |
Colin Sell is a British pianist who has appeared on the radio panel games Whose Line Is It... more » | |
Walter Emmons Alston, nicknamed "Smokey", was an American baseball player and manager in Major... more » | |
Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress, singer and Broadway star. A muse of Rodgers and... more » | |
Gábor Döbrentei was a Hungarian philologist and antiquary. more » | |
Walter Bathe was a German breaststroke swimmer, who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Bathe... more » | |
P.C.T is a musical artist-producer who primarily works within the genre of Progressive Hip-Hop... more » | |
Enam Ali, MBE, FRSA, is a Bangladeshi-born British businessman. He is the founder of... more » | |
Claire Chazal is a French journalist, romance writer, and director of news at a national... more » | |
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic,... more » | |
Irakli Dzaria is a Georgian footballer currently under contract for Georgian side FC Dinamo Tbilisi. more » | |
Matt Fritchman, better known by the pen name Matt Fraction, is an Eisner Award-winning American... more » | |
Matt Monro, known as The Man With The Golden Voice, was an English singer who became one of the... more » | |
Anna Louisa Karsch was a German autodidact and poet from the Silesia region, known to her... more » | |
Volney Rogers was a lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, who is known for his role in... more » | |
Nosfell is a rock musician who performs in a group with Pierre Lebourgeois and Orkhan Murat. His... more » | |
Archibald Gracie III was a career United States Army officer, businessman, and a graduate of... more » | |
Medha Patkar is an Indian social activist. She is known for her role in Narmada Bachao Andolan... more » | |
Kurt Lichtenstein was a communist journalist, and his death was a notable result of the German... more » | |
Mykola Khvylovy was a Ukrainian writer and poet of the early Communist era Ukrainian... more » | |
Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, USN was a United States Navy officer and early Naval... more » | |
Micah Jenkins, was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded by friendly... more » | |
Thomas Anthony Baugh is a former professional American football player. He was a center who... more » | |
Kurt Lidell Schmoke is the Dean of the Howard University School of Law and a former mayor of... more » | |
Gamaliel King was an American architect who practiced in New York City and the adjacent city of... more » | |
Safra Catz is the Co-President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Oracle Corporation. She... more » | |
Cuthbert Brodrick FRIBA was a British architect, whose most famous building is Leeds Town Hall. more » | |
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and... more » | |
Luther Scott Harshbarger is a lawyer and a Democratic politician from the Commonwealth of... more » | |
Zygmunt Waliszewski was a Polish painter, a member of the Kapist movement. more » | |
Mathew William "Mat" Kearney is an American musician born in Eugene, Oregon, now based in... more » | |
Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, also spelled Zonnenfeld, was the Chief Rabbi and co-founder of the Edah... more » | |
Anne Ducros is a French jazz singer. On her album Piano, piano, she recorded various jazz... more » | |
George Jackson was a Canadian mill owner and politician from Durham, Ontario. He served as a... more » | |
Todd Rogers is an American video game competitor living in Brooksville, Florida who gained fame... more » | |
I Made Wirawan is an Indonesian footballer who currently plays for Persib Bandung in the... more » | |
Xanthe Elbrick is an Anglo-American Tony Award-nominated stage actress. The youngest of four... more » | |
Elvio Romero was born in Yegros, Paraguay, in 1926. He straddled the decades of the 1940s and... more » | |
Brigadier rtd. Dr. Abdul Malik is a Bengali cardiologist and National Professor of Bangladesh... more » | |
Kurt Hitke was an American racecar driver. Hitke was born in Leipzig, Germany, and worked from... more » | |
Kimberly Kay "Kim" Richey is an American singer/songwriter. Though her work fits into the... more » | |
Charles-Philippe Ronsin was a French general of the Revolutionary Army of the First French... more » | |
Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl was a Norwegian pianist and composer. She married the conductor... more » | |
Konstantin Mirovich Kozeyev is a Russian cosmonaut. more » | |
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gavíria was a wealthy Colombian drug lord and an elusive cocaine... more » | |
Arbaiyah Abdul Manan or better known as Abby Abadi is a Malaysian actress who stars on the... more » | |
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga was the sixth President of Latvia and the first female President of Latvia... more » | |
Anodea Judith is an American author, therapist, and public speaker on the Chakra system,... more » | |
Nguyễn Sinh Hùng is Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam. Since a party congress in... more » | |
Luc Grethen is a composer and musician from Luxembourg. more » |