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Born This Day: December 4
| 1795 |
Thomas Carlyle, essayist/historian (Ecclefechan, Scotland; died 1881) |
| 1835 |
Samuel Butler, writer (Nottinghamshire, England; died 1902) |
| 1861 |
Lillian Russell, singer/actress (Clinton, IA; died 1922) |
| 1865 |
Edith Cavell, nurse (Norfolk, England; died 1915) |
| 1866 |
Wassily Kandinsky, painter (Moscow, Russia; died 1944) |
| 1875 |
Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist (Prague—now in the Czech Republic; died 1926) |
| 1892 |
Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (El Ferrol, Spain; died 1975) |
| 1921 |
Deanna Durbin, actress (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) |
| 1933 |
Horst Buchholz, actor (Berlin, Germany; died 2003) |
| 1935 |
Paul O'Neill, treasury secretary (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| 1939 |
Stew Albert, 1960s countercultural figure (New York, NY; died 2006) |
| 1942 |
Chris Hillman, musician (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 1946 |
Michael Ovitz, entertainment executive (Encino, CA) |
| 1949 |
Jeff Bridges, actor (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 1951 |
Patricia Wettig, actress (Cincinnati, OH) |
| 1964 |
Marisa Tomei, actress (New York, NY) |
| 1970 |
Jay-Z, musician (Brooklyn, NY) |
| 1973 |
Tyra Banks, model/actress (Los Angeles, CA) |
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