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<html> <head> <title>Died on December 19th</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died on December 19th LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/217/000165719/">Alois Alzheimer</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1915</tt></td> <td>Alzheimer's Disease</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/228/000044096/">V. C. Andrews</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1986</tt></td> <td>Flowers in the Attic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000094797/">Vitus Bering</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1681</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1741</tt></td> <td>Danish navigator in the Bering Sea</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000171671/">James Bevel</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2008</tt></td> <td>Civil rights activist, convicted of incest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/154/000115806/">John Bigelow</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-1817</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1911</tt></td> <td>Ambassador to France, memoirist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/861/000024789/">Emily Brontë</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1848</tt></td> <td>Wuthering Heights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000100325/">Herbert C. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Discovered organoboranes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/553/000202944/">Prentiss M. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1973</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Michigan, 1936-43</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/961/000096673/">James Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1812</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1860</tt></td> <td>Governor-General of India</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/435/000125060/">Juan Bautista de Anza</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>Jul-1736</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1788</tt></td> <td>Spanish explorer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/931/000123562/">Dock Ellis</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2008</tt></td> <td>Pitched a no-hitter on LSD</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/563/000027482/">Vincent Gigante</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2005</tt></td> <td>Mafia boss, headed the Genovese family</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000119541/">Lincoln Gordon</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2009</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000050295/">John Parker Hale</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1873</tt></td> <td>Anti-slavery US Senator from NH</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/483/000135078/">Ronald Howard</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1996</tt></td> <td>Sherlock Holmes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000279271/">Duncan Lamont</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1978</tt></td> <td>The Golden Coach</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/022/000023950/">Hope Lange</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2003</tt></td> <td>Peyton Place</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000099785/">Paul Langevin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1946</tt></td> <td>Studied piezoelectricity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/214/000117860/">John Lindsay</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2000</tt></td> <td>Mayor of New York City, 1966-73</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/702/000024630/">Desmond Llewelyn</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1999</tt></td> <td>"Q" in James Bond films</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/837/000114495/">Dwight Macdonald</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1982</tt></td> <td>Against the American Grain</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000044920/">Michel Magne</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1984</tt></td> <td>Tropical Fantasy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/231/000085973/">Marcello Mastroianni</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1996</tt></td> <td>The Pizza Triangle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000091498/">Robert A. Millikan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1953</tt></td> <td>Determined the charge of an electron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/361/000206740/">Francis P. Murphy</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1958</tt></td> <td>Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/815/000196227/">Michael Oakeshott</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1990</tt></td> <td>Rationalism in Politics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/701/000089434/">Kim Peek</a></td> <td><center>Oddity</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2009</tt></td> <td>Inspiration for Raymond in Rain Man</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/717/000162231/">Nellie Ross</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1977</tt></td> <td>First woman elected Governor in America</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/901/000049754/">Pops Staples</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2000</tt></td> <td>Blues guitarist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000097823/">Balfour Stewart</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1828</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1887</tt></td> <td>Studied magnetism, radiant heat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/457/000098163/">Bayard Taylor</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1825</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1878</tt></td> <td>Europe seen with Knapsack</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/457/000166956/">Frederick Terman</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1982</tt></td> <td>Stanford Research Park</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000205258/">Norman Thomas</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1968</tt></td> <td>American Socialist Party</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/302/000044170/">Jacques Tourneur</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1977</tt></td> <td>Original 1942 Cat People</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/621/000108297/">Les Tremayne</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Apr-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2003</tt></td> <td>Veteran of 30,000 radio broadcasts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/886/000084634/">J. 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Turner</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1775</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1851</tt></td> <td>Romanticist English lanscape painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/289/000095004/">Pope Urban V</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1309</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1370</tt></td> <td>Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1362-70</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/723/000025648/">Sam Wanamaker</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1993</tt></td> <td>Rebuilt Globe Theatre</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/952/000164460/">Harold Watkinson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1995</tt></td> <td>UK Minister of Defence, 1959-62</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=106919" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/378/000003369/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/378/3369/s3369.jpg" width=128> Freemasons 3</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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