Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (16 January, 1933 – 28 December 28, 2004) was an American author, filmmaker, philosopher, literary theorist and political activist.
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
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Alfonso Reyes Ochoa

Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (17 May 1889, Monterrey, Nuevo León – 27 December 1959, Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, philosopher, and diplomat.
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Pierre de Ronsard

Pierre de Ronsard (11 September, 1524 – December 1585) was a French poet and “prince of poets” (as his own generation in France called him).
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Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa

Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa (born December 27, 1943 in Barcelona) is a Spanish Catalan singer-songwriter.

Serrat is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages. He became involved with music at the age of 17, when he got his first guitar, to which he dedicates one of his earliest songs, “Una guitarra.”
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Vincent George Rhoden

Vincent George Rhoden (born December 13, 1926) is a former Jamaican athlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals in 1952.

Rhoden, who lived in San Francisco, was one of the successful long sprinters from Jamaica in the late 1940s and early 1950s, along with Arthur Wint and Herb McKenley. He competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, but did not win a medal, being eliminated in the heats of the 100 m and the semi-final of the 400 m. He was also a member of the heavily favoured Jamaican 4 x 400 m relay team, but when Wint pulled a muscle in the final, their chances at a medal were gone.

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818–July 16, 1882) was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Pope Sixtus V

Pope Sixtus V (December 13, 1521 – August 27, 1590), born Felice Peretti di Montalto, was Pope from 1585 to 1590.
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Stradivari Antonio

Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737), Italian violin maker, born in Cremona; he also made violas and cellos. The Latin form of his name is Stradivarius. He inherited the traditions of the Cremonese violin makers from his teacher, Nicolò Amati, and brought their art to its zenith. During his career Stradivari made certain changes in the proportions of his instruments, particularly the violins. The secret of his unmatched mastery remains elusive. Some believe it to be in the varnish he used; this is a subject of controversy. His finest instruments were made between 1700 and 1725. Several hundred of his violins survive; his violas and cellos are much rarer. His violins are more desired by players than those of any other instrument maker with the exception of his contemporary, Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri.

Stradivari, who was still making instruments when he was more than 90 years of age, had 11 children, of whom two sons, Francesco Stradivari and Omobono Stradivari, worked closely with him.

Wallis Simpson

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer, then Simpson; 19 June 1895 or 1896 – 24 April 1986) was an American socialite who married, as her third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII.
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