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  • Arturo Garcia Buhr. December 16, 1905, He was an Argentinian actor.---†

  • Andy Razaf, December 16, 1895. He was an African American composer, poet, and lyricist.---†

  • Barbara Kent. December 16, 1906, former actress in silent movies.

  • Ben Cross. December 16, 1947. English stage and screen actor.

  • Birgitta Valberg. December 16, 1916. Swedish film and TV actress.

  • Christopher Thorn. December 16, 1968. American rock band. Blind Melon.

  • Frances Day. December 16, 1908. American actress and singer.

  • Florencia Lozano. December 16, 1969. American actress. character Tea Delgado on One Life to Live.

  • Francois-Adrien Boieldieu. December 16, 1775. He was a French Opera composer.---†

  • Frida Hallgren. December 16, 1974 in Stockholm. Swedish actress - film "As It Is in Heaven".

  • Georgi Sviridov. December 16, 1915. was a Russian and Soviet neoromantic composer.---†

  • George Louis Schaefer. December 16, 1920. He was a television-Broadway theatre director.---†

  • Georgie Parker. December 16, 1964. Australian television and film actress.

  • Gail Harris. December 16, 1964. English-born actress, model and producer.

  • Hardie Albright. December 16, 1903. He was an American actor.---†

  • Heike Drechsler. December 16, 1964. She is a German track and field athlete of long jump and sprint.

  • James McCracken. December 16, 1926. He was an American tenor.---†

  • Johnnie J. Young. December 16, 1965. She is an American film producer.

  • Johnny "Hammond" Smith. December 16, 1933. He was American soul jazz and hard bop organist.---†

  • Jon Tenney. December 16, 1961. American actor.

  • Joe Farrell. December 16, 1937. He was a jazz saxophonist and flutist.---†

  • Joyce Bulifant. December 16, 1937. American television actress.

  • Karl Denver. December 16, 1931. He was a Scottish singer,---†

  • Kelly Tough. December 16, 1961. Canadian model and actress.

  • Kristen Knittle.December 16, 1970. He is an American actor.

  • Luisa Ranieri. December 16, 1973. Italion film actress.

  • Maruschka Detmers. December 16, 1962. Dutch film actress.

  • Melanie Smith. December 16, 1962. American film and TV actress.

  • Marina de Graaf. December 16, 1959. English film and TV actress.

  • Michael McCar. December 16, 1971. He is an American R&B singer-bass singer of R&B group Boyz II Men.

  • Matthew Mahaney. December 16, 1970. American film actor.

  • Max Linder. December 16, 1883. He was a French film writter and directer of silent film.---†

  • Mihai Traistariu. December 16, 1979. He is a Romanian singer and musician.

  • Nelly Corradi. December 16, 1914. Italion film actress

  • Noel Coward. December 16, 1899. He was an English actor, playwright and music composer.---†

  • Peter Dante. December 16, 1968. American writer, actor and producer.

  • Pina Renzi. December 16, 1901. She was a Italian film actress. ---†

  • Rafael Alberti. December 16, 1932. He was a Spanish poet-member of group of poets the Generation of 27.

  • Sam Robards. December 16, 1961. American film and theatre actor.

  • Sam Brown. December 1925. He was a Jamaican Rastafari-politics.

  • Scott Storch December 16, 1973. He is a Canadian record hip hop, pop, and R&B producer and rapper.

  • Tony Hicks. December 16, 1945. A Member of the jazz-rock trio Group: Back Door.

  • Terence Knox. December 16, 1946. American film and TV actor.

  • Vitold Bordzilovsky. December 16, 1916. He was a Russian film writer and director.

  • Even More December 16 Birthdays Below..


Jane Austen

Born Jane Austen
Born Jane Austen

Birth name Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England. She was a British novelist who is one of the most widely read and best-loved writers in British literature. She wrote three major novels from 1811 to 1815 which were Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. She had started a fourth novel but she died before its completion 18 July 1817.


Wassily Kandinsky

Born Wassily Kandinsky
Born Wassily Kandinsky

Birth name Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was born December 16 1866 in Moscow He was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, The most important of Kandinsky's paintings from the decade of the 1900s was The Blue Rider. He died December 13 1944 aged 88.


Margaret Mead

Born Margaret Mead
Born Margaret Mead

Birth name Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was born December 16, 1901, Philadelphia - November 15, 1978. She was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s. She married the Briton Gregory Bateson with whom she had a daughter (Mary Catherine Bateson, who also became an anthropologist.

Margaret Mead: A Life Margaret Mead: A Life
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Noel Coward

Born Noel Peirce Coward
Born Noel Peirce Coward

Birth name Noel Peirce Coward

Noel Coward was born December 16,, 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex, England. He was an Academy Award winning English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. He wrote and released some extraordinarily popular songs during the war, the most famous of which are London Pride and Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans. He died in Jamaica in March 1973 of heart failure at the age of 73.


Arthur C. Clarke

Born  Arthur Charles Clarke
Born Arthur Charles Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke OBE was born December 16, 1917 9in Minehead, Somerset, England. He was a British science-fiction author, inventor, and futurist most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. He died age 81 on 19th march 2007.



The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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Benny Andersson

Born Goran Bror Benny Andersson
Born Goran Bror Benny Andersson

Birth name Goran Bror Benny Andersson

Benny Andersson was born December 16, 1946 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA from {1972-1982} and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina fran Duvemala, and Mamma Mia!. Currently active with his own band Benny Anderssons Orkester BAO. The group achieved great success globally and scored a chain of number 1 hits.

ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
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Billy Gibbons

Born Billy F. Gibbons
Born Billy F. Gibbons

Birth name Billy F. Gibbons

Billy Gibbons was born December 16, 1949. He is nicknamed the Reverend Willie G. He is best known as the guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead vocalist and composer for many of the band's classic songs. He is known to play his guitar using a quarter or a peso as a pick, lending a distinctive sound to his playing. Billy's most recent television performance was with The Raconteurs at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards.

Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead
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Steven Bochco

Born Steven Ronald Bochco
Born Steven Ronald Bochco

Birth name Steven Ronald Bochco

Steven Bochco was born December 16, 1943 in New York City. He is an American television producer and writer. He has been involved in a number of popular hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue. He married actress Barbara Bosson.

Death by Hollywood Death by Hollywood
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Liv Ullmann

Born Liv Johanne Ullmann
Born Liv Johanne Ullmann

Birth name Liv Johanne Ullmann

Liv Ullmann was born December 16, 1938 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an Award winning Norwegian actress, author and film director. Her work with Bergman, especially in the powerful Scenes from a Marriage, turned her into a 1970s feminist icon, as well as one of the most respected actresses of her time.

Faithless Faithless
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Lesley Stahl

Born Lesley R. Stahl
Born Lesley R. Stahl

Birth name Lesley R. Stahl

Lesley Stahl was born December 16, 1941, in Lynn, Massachusetts. She is an American television journalist. She has reported for CBS on 60 Minutes. A graduate of Wheaton College, her career received a running start from her coverage of the Watergate affair. She went on to become White House correspondent during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. She is married to author Aaron Latham.


William Perry

Born William Perry
Born William Perry

Birth name William Perry

William Perry was born December 16, 1962 in Aiken, South Carolina. He is a former professional American football player and brother of former professional football player Michael Dean Perry. He is best known for his years as a defensive lineman for the Chicago Bears. He was popularly known as "The Refrigerator" or, "The Fridge". He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006


Benjamin Bratt

Born Benjamin  G Bratt
Born Benjamin G Bratt

Birth name Benjamin G Bratt

Benjamin Bratt was born December 16, 1963 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an American actor best known for his role of Det. Rey Curtis on theTV show Law & Order. His more popular films include Miss Congeniality, Blood in Blood out and Traffic. He dated Julia Roberts for a few years and is now married to actress Talisa Soto.

After the Storm After the Storm
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Michael McCary

Born Michael Sean McCary
Born Michael Sean McCary

Born Michael Sean McCary

Michael McCary was born December 16, 1971, in Philadelphia. He is an American R&B singer, best known as the bass singer of the popular R&B group, Boyz II Men. In 2003, he left Boyz II Men due to chronic scoliosis and personal problems. He has appeared on the television game show Identity on March 24, 2007. Michael is the son of Omarnetta Thomas and Robert McCary Sr. He has a brother named Robert McCary Jr.

Through Naked Eyes Through Naked Eyes
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Hallee Hirsh

Born Hallee Leah Hirsh
Born Hallee Leah Hirsh

Birth name Hallee Leah Hirsh

Hallee Hirsh was born December 16, 1987, in Omaha, Nebraska. She is an American actress. She is the recipient of two "Youth in Film" Young Artist Awards. Has appeared in You've Got Mail. Played Meryl Streep's daughter and a young Renée Zellweger in the film One True Thing, and in the episode "Killerz" of the NBC series Law & Order.

Flight 29 Down Vol. 2 Flight 29 Down Vol. 2
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Anna Popplewell

Born Anna Katherine Popplewell
Born Anna Katherine Popplewell

Birth name Anna Katherine Popplewell

Anna Popplewell was born December 16, 1988 is London, Englanda. She is an English actress. She started acting at a very young age and made her film debut in the 1999 film "Mansfield Park," but is is best known for her role in TV series "The Chronicles of Narnia," among other films such as and has also appeared in "Girl With A Pearl Earring 2002 and "Thunderpants."

Me Without You Me Without You
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Miranda Otto

Born Miranda Otto
Born Miranda Otto

Birth name Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto was born December 16, 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland,

Australia. She is an Australian actress known for her roles in the 1986 film Emma's War, "The Thin Red Line" 1998, "What Lies Beneath" and her biggest role was as Eowyn in "The Lord of the Rings trilogy". She is the daughter of actors Lindsay and Barry Otto and sister of Gracie Otto,

Love Serenade Love Serenade
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Nancy Valen

Born  Nancy Valen
Born Nancy Valen

Birth name Nancy Valen

Nancy Valen was born December 16, 1965 in Hallandale Beach, Florida. She is an American actress best known for her role as Samantha Thomas on the popular TV "Baywatch" and on shows such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "Friends" and in the films "The Heavenly Kid," and "Porky's Revenge" to name a few.

Baywatch: Season 1 Baywatch: Season 1
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Robben Ford

Born Robben Ford
Born Robben Ford

Birth name Robben Ford

Robben Ford was born December 16, 1951, in Woodlake, California, US. He is an award winning American blues, jazz and rock guitarist and one of the100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century. He is married to the singer Anne Kerry Ford.

Soul on Ten Soul on Ten
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Danielle Lloyd

Born  Danielle Lloyd
Born Danielle Lloyd

Video - Danielle Lloyd - Nuts Video.

Birth name Danielle Lloyd

Danielle Lloyd was born December 16, 1983 in Liverpool, England. She is an English fashion and glamour model and Miss England and Miss Great Britain winner, best known for her many appearances on the covers of lads mags, appearing on the UK version of Big Brother and for dating the English Footballer Teddy Sheringham.

Wish Upon a Star Wish Upon a Star
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Super Capers Super Capers
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The Santa Clause: 3 Movie Collection The Santa Clause: 3 Movie Collection
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Santa Clause 2  (Full Screen Edition) Santa Clause 2 (Full Screen Edition)
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Beethoven

Born Ludwig van Beethoven
Born Ludwig van Beethoven

Video - Moonlight Sonata composed by Beethoven

Birth name Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven was born December 16, 1770, in Bonn, Germany. He was a German composer and skillful virtuoso pianist and the fact he was completely deaf did not stop him becoming the most respected and influential composer of all time. He died 26 March 1827.

Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies
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Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 1 (Nos. 1-15) Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 1 (Nos. 1-15)
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Beethoven Beethoven
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Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7 Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7
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Birthday Books

A Catered Birthday Party (Mystery With Recipes) A Catered Birthday Party (Mystery With Recipes)
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Happy Birthday to You! Happy Birthday to You!
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The Secret Language of Birthdays (reissue) The Secret Language of Birthdays (reissue)
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December Movies

December 7th - The Pearl Harbor Story December 7th - The Pearl Harbor Story
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December Boys December Boys
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Love in the Afternoon Love in the Afternoon
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cgull8m profile image

cgull8m  says:
2 years ago

Thats nice to know it is Jane Austen's birthday. I also like Abba :) Wonder they will have a reunion like the Rolling Stones.

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MrMarmalade  says:
2 years ago

Thank you for looking at Killer Sudoku and the Url

Our G/daughter has a birthday on the 26th Dec. She 's not a fan for that date. All her friends have gone away and therefore she has to have her party 14 before or 14 days after.

I can feel her

Thank you

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stubbs  says:
2 years ago

keep up these hubs, they're great

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compu-smart  says:
2 years ago

Thank You Stubbs:)...I will do but only for a year!;)

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stubbs  says:
2 years ago

haha lol ok i guess that makes sense

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William F. Torpey  says:
2 years ago

Great idea for hubs. My late wife loved to watch those movies based on Jane Austen's work. I enjoyed them, too.

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