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Born This Day: Dec. 8
| 1542 |
Mary, Queen of Scots (Linlithgow, Scotland; died 1587) |
| 1765 |
Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin (Westham, MA; died 1825) |
| 1865 |
Jean Sibelius, composer (Finland; died 1957) |
| 1886 |
Diego Rivera, muralist/painter (Guanajuato, Mexico; died 1957) |
| 1894 |
James Thurber, humorist (Columbus, OH; died 1961) |
| 1906 |
Richard Llewellyn, playwright and novelist best known for How Green Was My Valley (St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died 1983) |
| 1925 |
Sammy Davis Jr., singer/actor (New York, NY; died 1990) |
| 1926 |
Joachim Fest, historian, author and newspaper editor and publisher (Berlin, Germany; died 2006) |
| 1930 |
Maximilian Schell, actor (Vienna, Austria) |
| 1933 |
Flip Wilson, comedian (Jersey City, NJ; died 1998) |
| 1937 |
James MacArthur, actor (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 1939 |
James Galway, flautist (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
| 1943 |
Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter (Melbourne, FL; died 1971) |
| 1949 |
Mary Gordon, writer (Long Island, NY) |
| 1953 |
Kim Basinger, actress (Athens, GA) |
| 1964 |
Teri Hatcher, actress (Sunnyvale, CA) |
| 1966 |
Sinead O'Connor, singer/songwriter (Dublin, Ireland) |
| 1978 |
Vernon Wells, baseball player (Shreveport, LA) |
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