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