Other Badasses Born On Dec. 31
Here's some other folks of note born on December 31, the momentous day I rocked the world with my presence.
Henri Matisse, 1869
Elizabeth Arden, 1878
Anthony Hopkins, 1937
John Denver, 1943
Ben Kingsley, 1943
Diane Von Furstenberg, 1945
Donna Summer, 1948
George Thorogood, 1951
Val Kilmer, 1959Heather McCartney, 1962 (Pretending I didn't see this one.)
Nicholas Sparks, 1965
Donald Trump Jr., 1977 (Son of Comb-over and Ivana)
Sadly, Ricky Nelson died on my exact birthdate in 1985. Here's some further morbidity of who's stuck it out till the very last day of the year:
Hank Williams, 1952
Brandon Teena, 1993 (The transexual on which the movie Boys Don't Cry was based. I included this on the list because I was coincidentally watching the movie while looking at the list of those who'd died on December 31st...eerie!)
