Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle (18 November 1647  – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer.
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Pío Baroja y Nessi

Pío Baroja y Nessi (December 28, 1872 – October 30, 1956) was a Spanish Basque writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of ‘98. He was a member of an illustrious family, one of his relatives was a painter and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja was a well known anthropologist.
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Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو, Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, IPA: [beːnəziːɾ bɦʊʈːoː]) (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan’s first and to date only female prime minister.
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Alejo Carpentier y Valmont

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous “boom” period. He was among the first practitioners of magical realism and exerted a decisive influence on the works of younger Latin American writers.
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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage, FRS (December 26, 1791 London, England – October 18, 1871 Marylebone, London, England) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. In 1991 a perfectly functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage’s original plans. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated that Babbage’s machine would have worked. Nine years later, the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine, an astonishingly complex device for the 19th century. Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.
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Joseph O’Neal Christopher

Joseph O’Neal (Joe) Christopher (born December 13, 1935 in Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands) is a former outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1959 through 1966. Listed at 5′ 10″, 175 lbs., he batted and threw right handed.

Christopher is credited as the first baseball player from the Virgin Islands to appear in a major league game. He reached the majors in 1959 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, spending three years with them before moving to the New York Mets (1962-65) and Boston Red Sox (1966).

While in Pittsburgh, Christopher was used as a backup in three outfield positions for Bob Skinner (LF), Bill Virdon (CF) and Roberto Clemente (RF). He was first called up when Clemente was injured, making his debut in nothing less than Harvey Haddix’s pitching masterpiece of 12 perfect innings on May 26, 1959. As a member of the 1960 World Series Champion Pirates, he was a useful spare part, pinch-running in three games and scoring two runs (games 2 and 5).

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Dale Anthony Berra aka Boo Boo

Dale Anthony Berra, aka Boo Boo, (born December 13, 1956 in Ridgewood, New Jersey), is a former Major League Baseball player who primarily played as an infielder from 1977 through 1987. The son of former Yankee great Yogi Berra, Dale was a highly sought prospect in the 1975 draft. Although he had a promising baseball future ahead of him, the younger Berra never lived up to his father’s greatness. Lost in obscurity and tarnished with drug problems, Berra’s career quickly diminished after 1986 when Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth fined him 10 percent of his annual salary for admitting in the Pittsburgh drug trials that he was a drug user. He played more games than any son of a Hall-of-Famer, topping Dick Sisler.

William Radhames Castro Checo

William Radhames Castro Checo (born December 13, 1953 in Santiago, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and the pitching coach for the Milwaukee Brewers of the National League.
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Alberti Rafael

Alberti, Rafael (1902-1999 ), Spanish poet, whose first training as an artist is reflected in A la pintura (On Painting, 1948), a brilliant attempt to describe one art in terms of another. His first volume of poetry, Maniero en tierra (A Sailor on Land, 1924), won a Spanish literary prize in 1925. His masterpiece, however, is considered to be Sobre los ángeles (Above the Angels, 1929), a surrealist allegory in which angels represent forces in the real world. After the Spanish Civil War, Alberti immigrated to Argentina, returning to Spain in 1977.

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