December 25 - life and death

It's interesting to note the people who were born and who have left us on this date.

This is just a brief, selected list:

BIRTHS
1642 (O.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727)
1821 - Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross (d. 1912)
1863 - Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (d. 1957)
1887 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979)
1890 - Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts (d. 1949)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
1907 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
1908 - Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999)
1918 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1924 - Rod Serling, American television writer (d. 1975)
1945 - Noel Redding, English musician (d. 2003)
1946 - Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
1948 - Barbara Mandrell, American singer and actress
1949 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
1950 - Karl Rove, American presidential advisor
1954 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer
1954 - Steve Wariner, American country music singer
1958 - Alannah Myles, Canadian singer
1971 - Dido, English singer
1972 - Josh Freese, American drummer
1976 - Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer

DEATHS
1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
1954 - Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929)
1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893) ...one of my favorites
1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928)
1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
1996 - JonBenet Ramsey, noted murder victim (b. 1990)
2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)

Source [Wikipedia]