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Born This Day: Dec. 7
| 1598 |
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, sculptor/painter/architect (Italy; died 1680) |
| 1761 |
Marie Tussaud, creator of Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum (Strasbourg, France; died 1850) |
| 1873 |
Willa Cather, author (Winchester, VA; died 1947) |
| 1888 |
Hamilton Fish, NY congressman (Garrison, New York; died 1991) |
| 1889 |
Gabriel Marcel, existentialist philosopher, critic and dramatist (Paris, France; died 1973) |
| 1913 |
Sol Linowitz, lawyer, businessman and diplomat (Trenton, New Jersey; died 2005) |
| 1915 |
Eli Wallach, actor (Brooklyn, NY) |
| 1928 |
Noam Chomsky, linguist and political activist (Philadelphia, PA) |
| 1932 |
Ellen Burstyn, actress (Detroit, MI) |
| 1942 |
Harry Chapin, singer/songwriter (New York, NY; died 1981) |
| 1947 |
Gregg Allman, singer/musician (Nashville, TN) |
| Johnny Bench, baseball player (Oklahoma City, OK) |
| 1949 |
Tom Waits, singer/songwriter (Pomona, CA) |
| 1952 |
Susan M. Collins, ME senator (Caribou, ME) |
| 1956 |
Larry Bird, basketball player and coach (West Baden, IN) |
| 1958 |
Edd Hall, Tonight Show announcer |
| 1966 |
C. Thomas Howell, actor (Los Angeles, CA) |
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