10 – Meg White, American drummer December 11 Rey Mysterio, American wrestler Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner December 12 – Michelle Saram, Singaporean singer and actress December 17 Sarah Paulson, American actress Giovanni Ribisi, American actor December 18 Kari Byron, American artist and television personality Mutassim Gaddafi, Libyan Army commander (d. 2011) Viki Miljković, Serbian singer Nelly Karim, Egyptian actress December 19 – Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer December 20 – Paul Linger, English footballer December 24 Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer Ryan Seacrest, American television personality December 27 – Alena Vinnitskaya, Ukrainian singer December 29 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor December 31 – Tony Kanaan, Brazilian racing driver Deaths January January 1 – Jimmy Smith, American Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1895) January 2 – Tex Ritter, American actor and country musician (b. 1905) January 3 Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901) Red Snapp, American baseball player (b. 1888) January 6 David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter and muralist (b. 1896) Dewey Mayhew, American football coach (b. 1898) Lech Pijanowski, Polish screenwriter, film critic, broadcaster and director (b. 1928) Margit Slachta, Hungarian politician (b. 1884) January 7 – Wang Shusheng, Chinese general (b. 1905) January 8 – Charles-Édouard Ferland, Canadian jurist, Liberal politician and Senator (b. 1892) January 10 – Charles G. Bond, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1877) January 11 – Antonio Bautista, Filipino pilot with the Philippine Air Force (b. 1937) January 12 Jack Jacobs, American-born National Football League and Canadian Football League player (b. 1919) Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886) January 14 – Joseph Dippolito, Italian American Mafia member of the Los Angeles crime syndicate (b. 1914) January 15 – Harold D. Cooley, U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1897) January 17 – Clara Edwards, American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1880) January 18 – Bill Finger, American comic strip and book writer (b. 1914) January 19 – Edward Seago, British artist (b. 1910) January 20 – Leonard Freeman, American television writer and producer (Hawaii Five-0) (b. 1920) January 21 – Robert Guy Howarth, Australian scholar, literary critic and poet (b. 1906) January 22 – Oskar Herman, Croatian Jewish painter (b. 1886) January 26 – Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor (b. 1898) January 27 Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. 1898) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, German general (b. 1886) January 28 – Oswald Cornwallis, English cricketer (b. 1894) January 29 – H. E. Bates, English writer and author