Over the years, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Joan Baez, Anita Baker, The Ballet Russe, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Lucrezia Bori, Dave Brubeck, Sandip Burman, Montserrat Caballé, Glen Campbell, Pablo Casals, Chicago, Van Cliburn, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Aaron Copland, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Deep Purple, Placido Domingo, Doobie Brothers, Jackie Evancho, Horacio Gutierrez, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Dorothy Dandridge, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Ella Fitzgerald, Renée Fleming, Aretha Franklin, George Gershwin, Jose Greco, Buddy Guy, Hall & Oates, Marvin Hamlisch, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jascha Heifetz, John Houseman, Jennifer Hudson, Janis Joplin, The Judds, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Chaka Khan, Lyle Lovett, Patti LuPone, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yo-Yo Ma, Maroon 5, Sarah McLachlan, Idina Menzel, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Mandy Patinkin, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Peter, Paul & Mary, Robert Plant, Bernadette Peters, Oscar Peterson, Bonnie Raitt, David Sanborn, Beverly Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Isaac Stern, Sting, Elaine Stritch, Donna Summer, James Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Clara Ward, Orson Welles, Frank Zappa and Denis Matsuev.

* Basto, Natalia ; Rodríguez, Oscar A .; Marinkelle, Cornelis J .; Gutierrez, Rafael & Matta, Nubia Estela ( 2006 ): Haematozoa in birds from la Macarena National Natural Park ( Colombia ).

Oscar was the son of a noble family, born near Amiens.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

* Oscar Mariné ( born 1951 ), a Spanish illustrator, typographer, and artist

* Oscar ( footballer born 1991 ), Brazilian footballer

Hammerstein was born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein in New York City, the son of Alice ( née Nimmo ) and William Hammerstein.

Theodor Ludwig Adorno-Wiesengrund was born in Frankfurt am Main on September 11, 1903, the only child of Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund ( 1870 – 1946 ) and Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana ( 1865 – 1952 ).

* August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, Polish-born theater impressario and composer ( born 1847 )

Oscar I ( born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte ; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859 ) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death.

The following two offspring were similarly named after awards ; Oscar, born July 18, 1969, and Toni, on December 28, 1971.

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho ( born December 15, 1907 ) is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture.

Oscar Berninghaus was born on October 2, 1874 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Carl Oscar Borg was born into a poor family in Grinstads parish, County of Älvsborg, Dalsland province, in Västergötland, Sweden.

Gustaf V was born in Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö, Stockholm County, the son of Prince Oscar and Princess Sofia.

* Wendell Mayes, an Oscar nominated Hollywood writer was born in Hayti.

* Oscar Gamble ( born 1949 ), former outfielder / designated hitter who played for the New York Yankees.

* Richard Anderson ( born 1926 ), best known for his role as Oscar Goldman, in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman TV series and subsequent TV movies.

* Oscar Brand ( born 1920 ), folk singer and songwriter ( resident )

De la Renta was born Oscar Aristides de la Renta Fiallo in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother, Maria Antonia Fiallo, and a Puerto Rican father, Oscar Avelino de la Renta.

* Oscar Robertson-Former basketball player born here.

When Dennis Chapin was involved in the shooting death of Oscar J. Rountree at the Dan Breen Saloon in San Antonio, Texas, the community changed its name to Edinburg to honor John Young, a prominent businessman who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

In 1986, President Oscar Arias Sánchez declared December 1 as the Día de la Abolición del Ejército ( Military abolition day ) with Law # 8115.

* December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V as king of Sweden.

* December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect

* December 8 – King Oscar II of Sweden ( b. 1829 )

* December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor ( d. 1972 )

Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz ( 31 December 1941 – August 5, 2002 ) was one of South West England's most celebrated artists of modern times.

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Caroll Edwin Spinney ( born December 26, 1933 ) is an American puppeteer, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street.

* Show Boat ( Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II )-Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 27 and ran for 572 performances

* December 27 – Oscar Levant, pianist and actor ( died 1972 )

Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE ( born Krishna Pandit Bhanji ; Gujarati: ક ૃ ષ ્ ણ ા પ ં ડ િ ત ભ ા ણજ ી; 31 December 1943 ) is an English actor who has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career.

On December 27, 1942, Bong claimed his initial aerial victory, shooting down a Mitsubishi A6M " Zero " and an Nakajima Ki-43 " Oscar " over Buna ( during the Battle of Buna-Gona ).

The first stamp catalogue was published in France by Oscar Berger-Levrault on 17 September 1861 and the first illustrated catalogue by Alfred Potiquet in December 1861 ( based on the earlier work ).

* December 31 — Oscar Alin, Swedish historian, politician and author ( born 1846 )

King Oscar II died on December 8, 1907 sincerely mourned by his people, and was succeeded as king of Sweden by his eldest son, Prince Gustaf.

On December 5, 1844 he presented the Royal Anthem for the first time, at a celebration for King Oscar I.

On December 29, 2005, Corretjer gave birth to Oscar Gabriel De La Hoya Corretjer in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Their second child, a girl, named Nina Lauren Ninette De La Hoya Corretjer, was born on December 29, 2007, on Oscar Gabriel's second birthday.

Oscar Levant ( December 27, 1906August 14, 1972 ) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor.

Hosted by Oscar Brand, who debuted the show on December 10, 1945, and who was blacklisted in the McCarthy era, the show was one of the first radio programs in the United States to focus on issues of homosexuality and continues to shake up audiences with anti-American Revolution programs, " bad daddy " shows for Father's Day, " Evil Mothers " for Mother's Day, and more.

* Prince Christian Oscar ( 1 September 1919 – 10 December 1981 ); married 1963 ( divorced 1976 ) Mireille Dutry ( b. 10 January 1946 ), and had issue.