December 25, 1949

1949Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer^[†]

Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, better known as Simone, is a Brazilian singer of Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) who has recorded more than 30 albums.

1949Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani politician, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan^[†]

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 12th prime minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 to 1993, then from 1997 to 1999 and later from 2013 to 2017. He is the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history, having served a total of more than 9 years across three tenures, with each term ending in his ousting.

1949Sissy Spacek, American actress^[†]

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an American actress and singer. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. For her contributions to the film industry, Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.

1949Leon Schlesinger, American animator and producer, founded Warner Bros. Cartoons (born 1884)^[†]

Leon Schlesinger was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation. He was a distant relative of the Warner Brothers. As head of his own studio, Schlesinger served as the producer of Warner's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1933, when Schlesinger assumed production from his subcontractors, Harman and Ising, to 1944, when Warner acquired the studio.