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Jack Benny (Feb. 14, 1894 – Dec. 26, 1974)

Eartha Kitt (Jan. 17, 1927 – Dec. 25, 2008)

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Charlie Chaplin (April 16, 1889 – Dec. 25, 1977)

W. C. Fields (Jan. 29, 1880 – Dec. 25, 1946)

Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – Dec. 24, 1993)

Victor Borge (Jan. 3, 1909 – Dec. 23, 2000)

Richard Long (Dec. 17, 1927 – Dec. 21, 1974)

Carl Sagan (Nov. 9, 1934 – Dec. 20, 1996)

Arthur Rubinstein (Jan. 28, 1887 – Dec. 20, 1982)

Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936 – Dec. 20, 1973)

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Dan Fogelberg (Aug. 13, 1951 – Dec. 16, 2007)

Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing Dec. 15, 1944)

Dinah Washington (Aug. 29, 1924 – Dec. 14, 1963)

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Tallulah Bankhead (Jan. 31, 1902 – Dec. 12, 1968)

Percy Kilbride (July 16, 1888 – Dec. 11, 1964)

Sam Cooke (Jan. 22, 1931 – Dec. 11, 1964)

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (Dec. 1, 1940 – Dec. 10, 2005)

Otis Redding (Sept. 9, 1941 – Dec. 10, 1967)

György Sándor (Sept. 21, 1912 – Dec. 9, 2005)

Antonio Carlos Jobim (Jan. 25, 1927 – Dec. 8, 1994)

Marty Robbins (Sept. 26, 1925 – Dec. 8, 1982)

John Lennon (Oct. 9, 1940 – Dec. 8, 1980)

Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 — Dec. 7, 1975)

Don Ameche (May 31, 1908 – Dec. 6, 1993)

Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – Dec. 6, 1988)

Frances Elizabeth Bavier (Dec. 14, 1902 – Dec. 6, 1989)

Claude Monet (Nov. 14, 1840 – Dec. 5, 1926)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Jan. 27, 1756 – Dec. 5, 1791)

Frank Zappa (Dec. 21, 1940 – Dec. 4, 1993)

Madeline Kahn (Sept. 29, 1942 – Dec. 3, 1999)

Roxie Roker (Aug. 28, 1929 – Dec. 2, 1995)

Aaron Copland (Nov. 14, 1900 – Dec. 2, 1990)

Desi Arnaz (March 2, 1917 – Dec. 2, 1986)

Paul Benedict (Sept. 17, 1938 – Dec. 1, 2008)

Fred Rose (Aug. 24, 1898 - Dec. 1, 1954)