Born December 6

Love served four years as mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah before rising to the House.

His smooth vocals were featured on hits like “Can’t Get Over You” and “Silky Soul.”

He built Davy Jones’ tentacled beard for two “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.

Letlow would have been the state’s youngest U.S. representative.

Actress and dancer Chelsea Brown was known best as a cast member on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”

Benjamin Gilman, a former U.S. representative from New York, died Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Wappingers Falls, New York, according to The Associated Press. He was 94.

Agnes Moorehead bewitched a generation of television viewers with her funny, haughty portrayal of magical matriarch Endora on the 1960s and ’70s hit sitcom Bewitched.

Dave Brubeck was known for writing and performing songs in unusual rhythms – most notably “Take Five.”

Robbins opened his first ice cream store in Glendale, Calif., in December 1945.