Born:
Mario Soares, Socialist, premier of Portugal, 1976-78, 1983-
More Notable Birthdays on December 7:
1956 - Larry Bird, hoop star for the Boston Celtics
1949 - Tom Waits, born in California, rocker/song writer, Blue Valentine
1942 - Harry Chapin, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Taxi, Cat's in the Craddle
1937 - Thad Cochran, born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Senator-R-Mississippi 1978
1928 - Noam Chomsky, linguist, founded transformational grammar
