2014Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, created Clifford the Big Red Dog (born 1928)[†]
Norman Ray Bridwell was an American author and cartoonist best known for creating the Clifford the Big Red Dog book series.
On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 2014, covering December 12, 2014.
Taylor Swift
Pentatonix
Various Artists
One Direction
Sam Smith
Rick Ross
Ariana Grande
Beyonce
Soundtrack
Maroon 5
2014Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, created Clifford the Big Red Dog (born 1928)[†]
Norman Ray Bridwell was an American author and cartoonist best known for creating the Clifford the Big Red Dog book series.
2014Ivor Grattan-Guinness, English mathematician, historian, and academic (born 1941)[†]
Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness was a historian of mathematics and logic.

2014Herb Plews, American baseball player (born 1928)[†]
Herbert Eugene Plews was an American Major League Baseball second baseman. He played four years in the majors, from 1956 to 1959 with the Washington Senators and in 1959 for the Boston Red Sox. In the minor leagues he played for Kansas City, Binghamton, Norfolk, and Denver before reaching the majors in 1956, and Toronto, Birmingham, Hawaii, Tacoma, and Arkansas after his major league career ended. During his playing career he served in the military from 1951 to 1952, during the Korean War. Plews batted left-handed and threw right-handed; he was listed as 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 160 pounds (73 kg).
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