** edited by Pierre Chiron, Collection Budé, with French translation, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-251-00498-X

** 96. curium, Cm, named after Pierre and Marie Curie, famous scientists who separated out the first radioactive elements ( 1944 ).

** Pierre Cartier, French jeweller ( b. 1878 )

** Pierre Bérégovoy, former prime minister of France, commits suicide.

** Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer

** Pierre Buyoya, former President of Burundi

** Pierre Harmel, Belgian Prime Minister ( d. 2009 )

** Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist ( d. 2011 )

** Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer

** Pierre Desproges, French humorist ( d. 1988 )

** Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13, 000 – 20, 000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

** Pierre Brossolette, French journalist and resistance fighter ( d. 1944 )

** Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau ( b. 1975 )

** Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1859 )

** Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada's 15th Prime Minister.

** Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the insurrections in 1958 and 1960 in Algeria, fails to appear in court in Paris, France.

** Pierre Littbarski, German footballer and coach

** Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 2000 )

** Pierre Billotte, French Army officer and politician ( b. 1906 )

** Pierre Hotel Robbery: Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of The Pierre Hotel in New York City of at least $ 4 million.

** October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

** October Crisis: Pierre Laporte is found murdered in south Montreal.

** The suspected killers of Pierre Laporte, Jacques and Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.

** Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor

** 3e Régiment d ' Artillerie de Marine ( 3e RAMa ) in Canjuers ( artillery )

** Guy of Anderlecht

** Jasmine Guy, American actress ( A Different World )

** Guy Mitchell, American singer ( b. 1927 )

** The Family Guy episode " Da Boom " is set on December 31, 1999.

** Guy Vanderhaeghe, Canadian author

** Guy Hovis, American singer

** Guy Ritchie, British film director

** Guy Fletcher, British keyboardist ( Dire Straits )

** Guy Nève, racing driver ( b. 1955 )

** Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer

** George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm ( book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin ) premiere in New York, NY.

** Guy Fawkes, English conspirator ( executed ) ( b. 1570 )

** Guy II, Count of Ponthieu ( b. c. 1120 )

** A Guy Named Joe-David Boehm, Chandler Sprague

** In France, Guy Gilpatric starts swim diving with waterproof goggles, derived from swimming goggles ( which were originally invented by Maurice Fernez in 1920 ).

** The Street-National Film Board of Canada-Caroline Leaf and Guy Glover

** The Panicky Guy: Elliot would pretend to be an audience member who panics and runs from the studio at the slightest threat of danger ( similar to doomed characters in disaster movies ).

** The Conspiracy Guy: Elliott would again pretend to be an audience member, this time asking Dave a question.

** The Guy Under the Seats: a short character-comedy bit by Elliott who emerges from a hatchway underneath the seats in the studio audience.

** The Fugitive Guy: Every so often, Letterman would introduce " Roger Campbell " ( Elliott, wearing an extremely bad toupée ), a new member of the Late Night crew.

** The Regulator Guy: A series of expensive-looking promos for a Terminator-like action character aired on " Late Night " over a period of several months, with Elliott playing the super-cool half-human, half-mechanical " Regulator Guy ," even speaking with a bad Schwarzenegger-esque accent.

** The New Regulator Guy: Shortly after " The Regulator Guy " was retired, Elliott came back with a re-tooled version called " The New Regulator Guy.