A Christmas Eve taping session with Tommy James And The
Shondells produced the song "I Think We’re Alone Now",
which went on to be the group’s forth number- one song,
selling over a million copies.

Johnny Gruelle (December 24, 1880 – January 9, 1938)

Gruelle was an artist, political cartoonist, children’s book author
and illustrator (and even songwriter). He is known as the creator
of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. He had such confidence in
his work that he would often create the final ink work without first
sketching in pencil. Gruelle spent a year in Ashland, Oregon from
1923–1924.

 

Jacob Joachim "Jack" Klugman (April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012)

Klugman died at his home in Northridge, California. He was diagnosed with throat
cancer in 1974 and lost a vocal cord to cancer in 1989, but continued to act. The
exact cause of his death is not known. 

He was best known as Felix Unger‘s sloppy roommate Oscar Madison in the ABC
television series The Odd Couple (1970–1975), for his starring role in Quincy, M.E.
on NBC-TV (1976–1983), as Juror #5 in 12 Angry Men, and multiple appearances
on The Twilight Zone.

    Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)