In A.D. 68, the Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.
In 1954, in one of the most dramatic confrontations of the Senate-Army hearings, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch assailed Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for his attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. "Have you no sense of decency?" Welch said.
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Former World Bank president and former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara (1916)
Baseball player Dave Parker (1951)
Actor Michael J. Fox (1961)
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"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."