TODAYS BIRTHS AND DEATHS: December 24 CELEBRITIES BORN THIS DAY: Kit Carson (1809, frontiersman/Indian fighter), Michael Curtiz (1886, film director), Vladimir Sokoloff (1889, Russian actor), Carl Brisson (1893, actor), Ruth Chatterton (1893, actress), Howard Hughes (1905, reclusive billionaire), Ava Gardner (1922, actress [1]), Lee Dorsey (1924, singer), Mary Higgins Clark (1927, novelist), Jill Bennett (1931, actress), Sharon Farrell (1940, actress), Lemmy (1945, rock musician [Motorhead]), Nicholas Meyer (1945, film director [2]), Grand L. Bush (1955, actor [3]), Stephanie Hodge (1956, actress/comedian), Deidrich Bader (1966, actor), Ricky Martin (1971, singer), Stephenie Meyer (1973, Twilight author) and Ryan Seacrest (1974, American Idol host [4]) CELEBRITIES DIED THIS DAY: William Thackeray (1863, writer), Edwin Stanton (1869, Secretary of War), Johns Hopkins (1873, philanthropist), Bernard Herrmann (1975, composer), Ian Hendry (1984, actor), Peter Lawford (1984, actor [5]), Norman Vincent Peale (1993, author), Rossano Brazzi (1994, actor), Toshiro Mifune (1997, actor [6]), Nick Massi (2000, Four Seasons singer [7]), Laci Peterson (2002, murder victim [8]), Harold Pinter (2008, playwright), Charles Durning (2012, actor [9]) and Jack Klugman (2012, actor [10])
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:10:44 +0000
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