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World AIDS Day
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Painter Georges Seurat born 1859
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Guitarist and composer Carlos Montoya born 1903
Cinematographer Sven Nykvist born 1922
UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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Nurse Edith Cavell born 1865
Inspirational speaker Nick Vujici born 1982
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Animator and filmmaker Walt Disney born 1901
UN International Volunteer Day
 
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Photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt born 1898
American AIDS hero Ryan White born 1971
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Sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini born 1598
Author Willa Cather born 1873
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Composer Jean Sibelius born 1865
Cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney born 1765
Painter and muralist Diego Rivera born 1886
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Poet and essayist John Milton born 1608
Clown Emmett Kelly born 1898
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Poet Emily Dickinson born 1830
UN Human Rights Day
Founder of the first public school for the deaf Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet born 1787
Librarian and inventor of the Dewey Decimal System Melvil Dewey born 1851
Deadline today for film submissions for 3rd annual Youth Producing Change Program
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Physician and bacteriologist Robert Koch born 1843
Russian Novelist and Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn born 1918
Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature Naguib Mahfouz born 1911
Tango singer Carlos Gardel born 1890
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Singer Frank Sinatra born 1915
 
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Medal of Honor recipient Alvin York born 1887
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Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist, art collector Dolores Olmedo Patino born 1908
Astronomer Tycho Brahe born 1546
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Biophysicist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA Maurice H. Wilkins born 1916
Engineer and Eiffel Tower designer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel born 1832
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Composer Ludwig Beethoven born 1770
Philosopher George Santayana born 1863
Anthropologist Margaret Mead born 1901
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Poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier born 1807
Child Rights advocate Craig Kielburger born 1982
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UN International Migrants Day
Painter Paul Klee born 1879
Baseball player Ty Cobb born 1886
Director and film producer Steven Spielberg born 1947
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Arctic explorer Sir William Parry born 1790
Anthropologist and paleontologist Richard Leakey born 1944
Author/Peacemaker Le Lay Hayslip born 1949.
 
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Iditarod champion DeeDee Jonrowe 1952
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Olympic champion sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner born 1959
Musician and songwriter Frank Zappa born 1940
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Opera composer Giacomo Puccini born 1858
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Poet Harriet Monroe born 1860
Businesswoman and social activist Madam C. J. Walker born 1867
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Physicist and inventor James Prescott Joule born 1818
Ballet dancer and choreographer Robert Joffrey born 1930
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Scientist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton born 1642
Nurse and founder of the American Red Cross Clara Barton born 1821
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Iditarod champion Susan Butcher born 1954
 
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Chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur born 1822
Astronomer Johannes Kepler born 1571
"The Lady of the Liberty" Manuelita Saenz born 1793
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Cellist Pablo Casals born 1876
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Golfer Tiger Woods born 1975
Writer Rudyard Kipling born 1865
Industrialist and philanthropist Simon Guggenheim born 1867
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Painter Henri Matisse born 1869
 		    
 
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