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- Theodore George Pratt was born on 26 Apr 1901, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Thomas A. and Emma R. Pratt. His father was born in Ontario, Canada and came to the United States in 1892. His mother was born in Minnesota and married his father in 1898. By 1920 Pratt's family was living in New Rochelle, New York, where his father was a sales manager for a local firm.
Pratt attended Colgate and Columbia universities and began his writing career as a newspaper columnist while he also worked as a reader for a movie company. In 1923 one of his first plays, "The Revolt of the Mummies", was performed by the Huguenot Players of New Rochelle. Later Pratt traveled to Europe where he found work as a foreign correspondent for The New York Sun and soon became a contributor to The New Yorker.
In 1933 Pratt wrote an article that appeared in H.L. Mencken's American Mercury that described conditions as he found them on the Spanish island of Majorca. After being deported from Majorca as an undesirable alien, Pratt returned to the US and settled in Florida where he began to write novels.
Though the author many popular books and plays, Pratt is best remembered for his trilogy about the state of Florida; "The Barefoot Mailman" (1943), "The Flame Tree" (1950) and "The Big Bubble" (1951). Once while researching one of his books about state he became lost in the Everglades for a day and a half. While his books chronicled that period in Florida history (1886 to 1927) that saw the it go from a frontier wilderness to an opulent civilization, Pratt felt Florida's apex occurred when the Seminole Indians had it to themselves.
Pratt died on 15 December, 1969, in Delray Beach, Florida, after a heart attack. He was survived by his wife Jackie and a sister. - Champion rifle shooter Willy Rogeberg was born on December 11, 1905 in Oslo, Norway. Rogeberg won a gold medal in men's small-bore rifle, prone, 50-meters at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Willy went on to win a bronze medal in the men's free rifle, three positions, 300-meters at the 1948 Olympics in London, England as well as won three medals at the 1935 International Shooting Sport Federation World Shooting Championships. Moreover, Rogeberg started his own guns and sporting equipment business in Oslo, Norway in 1936 after winning his first Olympic medal. Willy was arrested on weapons related charges by the Germans during the Second World War German occupation of Norway on May 29, 1942. Rogeberg was initially incarcerated at the penitentiary Mollergata 19 from May 29 to October 5, 1942; he served the rest of his sentence at the Grini prison camp in Bearum, Norway from October 5, 1942 to December 22, 1943. Willy died at age 64 on December 15, 1969 in Oslo, Norway.
- Necla Sertel was born in 1901. She was an actress, known for Tosun Pasa (1939), Katil (1953) and Sehvet Kurbani (1940). She died on 15 December 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Federico Sodi was born on 2 March 1890 in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was a writer, known for He matado a un hombre (1964), Amor de adolescente (1965) and Historia de un canalla (1964). He died on 15 December 1969 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.