What happened on December 31 ?
Births
1378 - Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
1491 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)
1514 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
1572 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617)
1668 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738)
1720 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788)
1738 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805)
1763 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806)
1830 - Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (d. 1895)
1869 - Henri Matisse, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1954)
1880 - George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize, World War II Chief of Staff of the United States Army (d. 1959)
1881 - Max Pechstein, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1955)
1903 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992)
1905 - Jule Styne, English-born composer (d. 1994)
1908 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and activist (d. 2005)
1910 - Carl Dudley, American film director (died 1973)
1919 - Tommy Byrne, baseball player
1920 - Rex Allen, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
1928 - Siné, French cartoonist
1930 - Odetta, American singer
1931 - Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996)
1934 - Akram Awan, Islamic scholar, Sufi
1937 - Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1937 - Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
1938 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (d. 1995)
1941 - Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
1942 - Andy Summers, British musician (The Police)
1943 - John Denver, American musician (d. 1997)
1943 - Ben Kingsley, English actor
1945 - Taylor Hackford, American film producer and director
1945 - Diane von Fürstenberg, fashion designer
1945 - Connie Willis, American writer
1947 - Burton Cummings, Canadian musician (The Guess Who)
1947 - Tim Matheson, American actor
1948 - Donna Summer, American singer
1949 - Ellen Datlow, American editor and anthologist
1949 - Susan Shwartz, American writer
1951 - George Thorogood, American musician
1951 - Tom Hamilton, American musician (Aerosmith)
1953 - James Remar, American actor
1953 - Jane Badler, American actress
1958 - Bebe Neuwirth, American actress
1959 - Phill Kline, American politician
1959 - Val Kilmer, American actor
1959 - Paul Westerberg, American singer, songwriter, and musician (Replacements)
1960 - John Allen Muhammad, American serial killer
1963 - Scott Ian, American musician (Anthrax)
1964 - Allen D'Nulderf, American stuntman
1971 - Brent Barry, American basketball player
1980 - Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player and current captain of the All Blacks
1980 - Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance)
1981 - Jason Campbell, American Quarterback (Washington Redskins (NFL))
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