In 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.
In 1958, the African nation of Chad became an autonomous republic within the French community.
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On this day...
1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1825 1st Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
1847 Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
1864 Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved & opened
1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1924 NHL's Montreal Forum opens
1929 Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached the vicinity of the South Pole" (He was wrong)
1933 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1934 Chicago Bears beat Detroit in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1945 Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims it's republic
1947 UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1950 National Council of the Church of Christ in US established
1951 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1952 President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war
1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
1963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden
1967 US Secretary of Defense McNamara becomes President of the World Bank
1968 John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1969 Beatles' "Come Together," single goes #1
1971 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost
1987 Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles). It was later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
1990 UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1994 Russian aircraft bomb Chechen capital of Grozney
On this day...
1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1825 1st Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
1847 Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
1864 Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved & opened
1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1924 NHL's Montreal Forum opens
1929 Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached the vicinity of the South Pole" (He was wrong)
1933 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1934 Chicago Bears beat Detroit in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1945 Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims it's republic
1947 UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1950 National Council of the Church of Christ in US established
1951 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1952 President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war
1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
1963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden
1967 US Secretary of Defense McNamara becomes President of the World Bank
1968 John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1969 Beatles' "Come Together," single goes #1
1971 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost
1987 Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles). It was later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
1990 UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1994 Russian aircraft bomb Chechen capital of Grozney
In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussells before he could complete his opera "Turandot."--( It was finished by Franco Alfano)
In 1987,a Korean Air jetliner disappeared off Burma, with the loss of all 115 people aboard; South Korean authorities charged North Korean agents had planted a bomb aboard the aircraft.
In 1987,a Korean Air jetliner disappeared off Burma, with the loss of all 115 people aboard; South Korean authorities charged North Korean agents had planted a bomb aboard the aircraft.
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Deaths which occurred on November 30:
30 -BC- Cleopatra Egyptian queen commits suicide
1016 Edmund II Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1631 Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels dies
1694 Marcello Malpighi father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1900 Oscar Wilde Irish author, dies in Paris
1964 Don Redman orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1973 Bruce Yarnell Los Angeles CA, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1979 Zeppo Marx dies at 78
1981 Robert H Harris actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), dies at 72
1987 Arthur H Dean lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
1990 Norman Cousins editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1996 Tiny Tim singer with the falsetto warble and ukulele ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips" ), dies at 64
30 -BC- Cleopatra Egyptian queen commits suicide
1016 Edmund II Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1631 Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels dies
1694 Marcello Malpighi father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1900 Oscar Wilde Irish author, dies in Paris
1964 Don Redman orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1973 Bruce Yarnell Los Angeles CA, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1979 Zeppo Marx dies at 78
1981 Robert H Harris actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), dies at 72
1987 Arthur H Dean lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
1990 Norman Cousins editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1996 Tiny Tim singer with the falsetto warble and ukulele ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips" ), dies at 64
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Birthdates which occurred on December 01:
1549 Johan van der Veeken merchant/co-founder (VOC)
1566 Philip earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, Governor of Fort Gorinchem/Nijmegen
1573 Philippus Rovenius [Rouveen] apostile vicar
1605 Juan de Padilla composer
1634 John-Erasmus Quellinus [Quellien] Flemish painter
1671 Francesco Stradivari Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
1671 John Keill mathematician
1709 Franz Xaver Richter composer
1712 Bernhard Christian Weber composer
1722 A L Karschin writer
1724 Charles Theodoor elector (Palts & Bayern)
1724 Dismas Hatas composer
1726 Eggert Olafsson Icelandic writer
1726 Oliver Wolcott US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1729 Giuseppe Sarti composer
1743 Martin H Klaproth German chemist (uranium)
1779 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov composer
1781 Charles Philippe Lafont composer
1784 François Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze composer
1787 Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov composer
1792 Nikolay Lobachevsky mathematician
1800 Mihály Vörösmarty Hungary, poet/dramatist ("To a Day-Dreamer")
1810 Joseph Gungl composer
1549 Johan van der Veeken merchant/co-founder (VOC)
1566 Philip earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, Governor of Fort Gorinchem/Nijmegen
1573 Philippus Rovenius [Rouveen] apostile vicar
1605 Juan de Padilla composer
1634 John-Erasmus Quellinus [Quellien] Flemish painter
1671 Francesco Stradivari Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
1671 John Keill mathematician
1709 Franz Xaver Richter composer
1712 Bernhard Christian Weber composer
1722 A L Karschin writer
1724 Charles Theodoor elector (Palts & Bayern)
1724 Dismas Hatas composer
1726 Eggert Olafsson Icelandic writer
1726 Oliver Wolcott US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1729 Giuseppe Sarti composer
1743 Martin H Klaproth German chemist (uranium)
1779 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov composer
1781 Charles Philippe Lafont composer
1784 François Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze composer
1787 Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov composer
1792 Nikolay Lobachevsky mathematician
1800 Mihály Vörösmarty Hungary, poet/dramatist ("To a Day-Dreamer")
1810 Joseph Gungl composer
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Deaths which occurred on December 02:
0537 Sylvester Italian Pope (536-37), dies
1463 Albrecht VI archduke of Habsburg, dies
1515 Gonzalo de Córdoba Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies
1592 Alexander Farnese land guardian of Netherlands (1579-92), dies at 46
1719 Pasquier Quesnel French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85
1723 Philip French duke of Orléans/regent (1715-23)/PM (1723), dies
1763 Carl August Thielo composer, dies at 56
1774 Johann Friedrich Agricola German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54
1814 Marquis de Sade writer, dies at 74
1828 Simon Paap Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39
1831 Traugott Maximilian Eberwein composer, dies at 56
1845 Johannes Simon Mayr composer, dies at 82
1859 John Brown US abolitionist, hanged in Charles Town WV at 59
1864 Archibald Gracie Jr Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31
1880 Josephine Lang composer, dies at 65
1888 Franz Xaver Witt composer, dies at 54
1888 Mehmed N Kemal Bey Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
1903 Victor Roger composer, dies at 50
1915 Jan Malat composer, dies at 72
1916 Francesco Paolo Tosti composer, dies at 69
1918 Margit Kaffka writer, dies at 38
1919 Henry Clay Frick built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69
1923 Tomas Breton y Hernandez composer, dies at 72
1925 Julio Garreta composer, dies at 50
1931 Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy French count/composer, dies at 80
1933 Josef Gruber composer, dies at 78
1935 Albert Kessel first to die in California gas chamber
1943 Nordahl Grieg writer, dies
1944 Filippo T Marinetti Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67
1944 JW Ummels Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies
1950 Dino Lipatti composer, dies at 33
1953 Ernest Hayes cricketer (Surrey bat played 5 Tests for England), dies
1953 Francis Picabia French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1957 Harrison Ford silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73
1963 Sabu Sabu actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at 39
1964 Roger Bissière French painter, dies at 76
1965 The Rajkumar of Vizianagram cricketer (Indian Test captain 1936), dies
1966 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers Dutch mathematician, dies at 85
1967 Cardinal Francis Spellman archbishop of New York, dies at 78
1969 Kliment J Voroshilov President of USSR (1953-60), dies
1970 Dora Paulen German/Dutch cabaretière, dies at about 72
1972 Friedrich Christian Christiansen German Luftwaffe general, dies
1972 José Limón Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64
1974 Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte composer, dies at 72
1976 William Tannen actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp, Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65
1976 Danny Murtaugh baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 59
1979 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy composer, dies at 72
1981 Hershy Kay composer, dies at 62
1981 Nicolaas "Cola" Debrot Governor of Dutch Antilles (1962-70), dies at 79
1981 Wallace K[irkman] Harrison US architect (UN), dies at 86
1982 Marty Feldman comedic actor (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49 of a heart attack
0537 Sylvester Italian Pope (536-37), dies
1463 Albrecht VI archduke of Habsburg, dies
1515 Gonzalo de Córdoba Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies
1592 Alexander Farnese land guardian of Netherlands (1579-92), dies at 46
1719 Pasquier Quesnel French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85
1723 Philip French duke of Orléans/regent (1715-23)/PM (1723), dies
1763 Carl August Thielo composer, dies at 56
1774 Johann Friedrich Agricola German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54
1814 Marquis de Sade writer, dies at 74
1828 Simon Paap Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39
1831 Traugott Maximilian Eberwein composer, dies at 56
1845 Johannes Simon Mayr composer, dies at 82
1859 John Brown US abolitionist, hanged in Charles Town WV at 59
1864 Archibald Gracie Jr Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31
1880 Josephine Lang composer, dies at 65
1888 Franz Xaver Witt composer, dies at 54
1888 Mehmed N Kemal Bey Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
1903 Victor Roger composer, dies at 50
1915 Jan Malat composer, dies at 72
1916 Francesco Paolo Tosti composer, dies at 69
1918 Margit Kaffka writer, dies at 38
1919 Henry Clay Frick built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69
1923 Tomas Breton y Hernandez composer, dies at 72
1925 Julio Garreta composer, dies at 50
1931 Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy French count/composer, dies at 80
1933 Josef Gruber composer, dies at 78
1935 Albert Kessel first to die in California gas chamber
1943 Nordahl Grieg writer, dies
1944 Filippo T Marinetti Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67
1944 JW Ummels Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies
1950 Dino Lipatti composer, dies at 33
1953 Ernest Hayes cricketer (Surrey bat played 5 Tests for England), dies
1953 Francis Picabia French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1957 Harrison Ford silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73
1963 Sabu Sabu actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at 39
1964 Roger Bissière French painter, dies at 76
1965 The Rajkumar of Vizianagram cricketer (Indian Test captain 1936), dies
1966 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers Dutch mathematician, dies at 85
1967 Cardinal Francis Spellman archbishop of New York, dies at 78
1969 Kliment J Voroshilov President of USSR (1953-60), dies
1970 Dora Paulen German/Dutch cabaretière, dies at about 72
1972 Friedrich Christian Christiansen German Luftwaffe general, dies
1972 José Limón Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64
1974 Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte composer, dies at 72
1976 William Tannen actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp, Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65
1976 Danny Murtaugh baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 59
1979 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy composer, dies at 72
1981 Hershy Kay composer, dies at 62
1981 Nicolaas "Cola" Debrot Governor of Dutch Antilles (1962-70), dies at 79
1981 Wallace K[irkman] Harrison US architect (UN), dies at 86
1982 Marty Feldman comedic actor (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49 of a heart attack
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Deaths which occurred on December 03:
0450 Petrus Chrysologus 1st archbishop of Ravenna, dies
1137 Lotharius III of Supplinburg, Roman-German emperor (1133-37), dies at 67
1154 Anastasius IV Pope (1153-54), dies
1463 Louis Chalon prince of Orange, dies
1469 Piero de' Medici ruler of Florence, dies at about 53
1491 Thomas Basin French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies
1533 Vasili III great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54
1660 Jacques Sarazin French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
1676 Daniel Stalpaert Amsterdams master builder, buried
1789 Claude-Joseph Vernet French seascape painter, dies
1807 Clara Reeve English author (old English baron), dies
1823 Joseph Pouteau composer, dies at 84
1839 Frederik VI king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies at 71
1857 Christian D Rauch German sculptor, dies at 80
1866 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda composer, dies at 65
1876 Hermann Goetz composer, dies at 35
1889 Baltasar Saldoni composer, dies at 82
1890 Bill Midwinter cricketer (8 Tests for Australia, 4 for England), dies
1892 William Bonaparte grandson of Lucien, dies
1893 Allan Wilson British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle
1894 Jozef Schadde Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at 76
1894 Robert Louis Stevenson English writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 45
1910 Mary Baker Eddy founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies
1919 Pierre A Renoir French painter/sculptor, dies at 78
1933 Richard Henry Warren composer, dies at 74
1937 Prosper Poullet Belgian mayor, dies
1941 Johann Christian August Sinding composer, dies at 85
1942 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer, dies at 75
1944 Delfien Vanhaute Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75
1949 Elin Pelin writer, dies
1949 Maria Ouspenskaya actress (Spookies), dies at 62
1954 Enrique Soro Barriga composer, dies at 70
1957 Frank E Gannett newspaper publisher, dies at 81
1960 Hermann Stephani composer, dies at 83
1961 Jekabs Graubins composer, dies at 75
1961 Mary Charleson actress (Upstairs & Downstairs), dies at 76
1964 Ernst Ginsberg writer, dies
1964 George Brown cricketer (7 Tests for England), dies
0450 Petrus Chrysologus 1st archbishop of Ravenna, dies
1137 Lotharius III of Supplinburg, Roman-German emperor (1133-37), dies at 67
1154 Anastasius IV Pope (1153-54), dies
1463 Louis Chalon prince of Orange, dies
1469 Piero de' Medici ruler of Florence, dies at about 53
1491 Thomas Basin French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies
1533 Vasili III great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54
1660 Jacques Sarazin French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
1676 Daniel Stalpaert Amsterdams master builder, buried
1789 Claude-Joseph Vernet French seascape painter, dies
1807 Clara Reeve English author (old English baron), dies
1823 Joseph Pouteau composer, dies at 84
1839 Frederik VI king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies at 71
1857 Christian D Rauch German sculptor, dies at 80
1866 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda composer, dies at 65
1876 Hermann Goetz composer, dies at 35
1889 Baltasar Saldoni composer, dies at 82
1890 Bill Midwinter cricketer (8 Tests for Australia, 4 for England), dies
1892 William Bonaparte grandson of Lucien, dies
1893 Allan Wilson British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle
1894 Jozef Schadde Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at 76
1894 Robert Louis Stevenson English writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 45
1910 Mary Baker Eddy founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies
1919 Pierre A Renoir French painter/sculptor, dies at 78
1933 Richard Henry Warren composer, dies at 74
1937 Prosper Poullet Belgian mayor, dies
1941 Johann Christian August Sinding composer, dies at 85
1942 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer, dies at 75
1944 Delfien Vanhaute Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75
1949 Elin Pelin writer, dies
1949 Maria Ouspenskaya actress (Spookies), dies at 62
1954 Enrique Soro Barriga composer, dies at 70
1957 Frank E Gannett newspaper publisher, dies at 81
1960 Hermann Stephani composer, dies at 83
1961 Jekabs Graubins composer, dies at 75
1961 Mary Charleson actress (Upstairs & Downstairs), dies at 76
1964 Ernst Ginsberg writer, dies
1964 George Brown cricketer (7 Tests for England), dies
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Birthdates which occurred on December 04:
1443 Pope Julius II (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
1584 John Cotton Puritan clergyman in Massachusetts Bay colony
1660 Andre Campra composer
1667 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair composer
1708 Marianus Konigsperger composer
1720 Jean-Jacques Robson composer
1786 John LA Luyten Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament [or 12/14]
1791 Johann Gottlob Topfer composer
1795 Thomas Carlyle Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
1800 Emil Aarestrup Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen)
1803 Augustus Zerega diZerega Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
1808 Ernest Panckoucke French publisher (Horatius)
1812 Elias Smith Dennis Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1818 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring Major General (Confederate Army)
1822 Frances Crabbe England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
1825 Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek composer
1835 Samuel Butler England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
1838 Melesio Morales composer
1858 Billy Gunn cricketer (Notts & England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99)
1861 Lillian Russell [Helen Leonard] US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
1865 Edith Louisa Cavell England, nurse (WWI)
1866 Vassily Kandinsky Russian/German/French abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration)
1868 Richard N Roland Holst Dutch artist/painter
1874 Jean H L Bossard actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice)
1875 Rainer Maria Rilke Germany, poet (Duino Elegies)
1876 Dimitur Poljanov [Popov] Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems)
1879 Herbert Hamilton Harty composer
1881 Erwin von Witzleben German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)
1888 Aleksandar I Karadordjevic king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
1889 Buck Jones [Charles F Gebhart] US actor (War Horse)
1889 Isabel Randolph Illinois, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks)
1892 Francisco Franco [y Bahamonde] general/dictator of Spain (1936-75)
1895 Nils FA Nilsson Piraten Swedendish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
1896 Nikolai S Tichonov Russian writer (against Pasternak)
1897 Mari Andriessen Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)
1899 Douwe Hermans Kiestra [Harm Harmstra] Frisian farmer/writer
1903 Alfred Leslie Rowse historian
1903 Cornell Woolrich US, writer (El Angel Negro)
1905 Emilio Médici President of Brazil (
1443 Pope Julius II (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
1584 John Cotton Puritan clergyman in Massachusetts Bay colony
1660 Andre Campra composer
1667 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair composer
1708 Marianus Konigsperger composer
1720 Jean-Jacques Robson composer
1786 John LA Luyten Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament [or 12/14]
1791 Johann Gottlob Topfer composer
1795 Thomas Carlyle Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
1800 Emil Aarestrup Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen)
1803 Augustus Zerega diZerega Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
1808 Ernest Panckoucke French publisher (Horatius)
1812 Elias Smith Dennis Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1818 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring Major General (Confederate Army)
1822 Frances Crabbe England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
1825 Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek composer
1835 Samuel Butler England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
1838 Melesio Morales composer
1858 Billy Gunn cricketer (Notts & England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99)
1861 Lillian Russell [Helen Leonard] US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
1865 Edith Louisa Cavell England, nurse (WWI)
1866 Vassily Kandinsky Russian/German/French abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration)
1868 Richard N Roland Holst Dutch artist/painter
1874 Jean H L Bossard actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice)
1875 Rainer Maria Rilke Germany, poet (Duino Elegies)
1876 Dimitur Poljanov [Popov] Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems)
1879 Herbert Hamilton Harty composer
1881 Erwin von Witzleben German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)
1888 Aleksandar I Karadordjevic king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
1889 Buck Jones [Charles F Gebhart] US actor (War Horse)
1889 Isabel Randolph Illinois, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks)
1892 Francisco Franco [y Bahamonde] general/dictator of Spain (1936-75)
1895 Nils FA Nilsson Piraten Swedendish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
1896 Nikolai S Tichonov Russian writer (against Pasternak)
1897 Mari Andriessen Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)
1899 Douwe Hermans Kiestra [Harm Harmstra] Frisian farmer/writer
1903 Alfred Leslie Rowse historian
1903 Cornell Woolrich US, writer (El Angel Negro)
1905 Emilio Médici President of Brazil (
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Deaths which occurred on December 05:
1212 Derek II of Are Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies
1244 Johanna of Constantinople countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies
1355 Jan III duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies
1560 François II King of France (1559-60), dies at 16
1594 Gerardus Mercator Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82
1663 Severo Bonini composer, dies at 80
1675 John Lightfoot English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73
1745 Christoph Forster composer, dies at 52
1758 Johann Friedrich Fasch composer, dies at 70
1770 James Stirling Scottish mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78
1784 Phillis Wheatley 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston
1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer, dies in Vienna, Austria, at 35
1799 Robert Kimmerling composer, dies at 61
1818 Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga Secretary of High Council Adel, dies at 60
1835 August von Platen writer, dies at 39
1842 MJ Auguste Vestrius French ballet dancers, dies at 82
1853 Johann Peter Heuschkel composer, dies at 80
1859 Louis Poinsot French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82
1870 Alexandre Dumas writer (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 68
1886 Peter Hofstede de Groot Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84
1891 Pedro II of Alcantara emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies
1902 Henry Stephen Cutler composer, dies at 78
1916 Hans Richter composer, dies at 73
1922 Samuel Muller Fzn Dutch historian/archivist, dies
1925 Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing] Dutch feminist, dies at 78
1928 Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61
1935 Frans [MJ François] Erens literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78
1938 Christina "Dina" Koudijs-van Appeldoorn pianist/composer, dies at 54
1940 Jan Kubelik composer, dies at 60
1942 Buck Jones Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried
1951 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
1955 Paul Harvey actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
1958 Ferdinand Bruckner writer, dies at 67
1959 K S Duleepsinhji cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), dies
1963 Herbert H Lehman (Governor-D-NY), dies
1963 Karl Amadeus Hartmann composer, dies at 58
1964 Remy Angenot Flemish actor (Tailor Wibbel), dies at 70
Deaths which occurred on December 05:
1212 Derek II of Are Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies
1244 Johanna of Constantinople countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies
1355 Jan III duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies
1560 François II King of France (1559-60), dies at 16
1594 Gerardus Mercator Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82
1663 Severo Bonini composer, dies at 80
1675 John Lightfoot English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73
1745 Christoph Forster composer, dies at 52
1758 Johann Friedrich Fasch composer, dies at 70
1770 James Stirling Scottish mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78
1784 Phillis Wheatley 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston
1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer, dies in Vienna, Austria, at 35
1799 Robert Kimmerling composer, dies at 61
1818 Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga Secretary of High Council Adel, dies at 60
1835 August von Platen writer, dies at 39
1842 MJ Auguste Vestrius French ballet dancers, dies at 82
1853 Johann Peter Heuschkel composer, dies at 80
1859 Louis Poinsot French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82
1870 Alexandre Dumas writer (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 68
1886 Peter Hofstede de Groot Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84
1891 Pedro II of Alcantara emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies
1902 Henry Stephen Cutler composer, dies at 78
1916 Hans Richter composer, dies at 73
1922 Samuel Muller Fzn Dutch historian/archivist, dies
1925 Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing] Dutch feminist, dies at 78
1928 Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61
1935 Frans [MJ François] Erens literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78
1938 Christina "Dina" Koudijs-van Appeldoorn pianist/composer, dies at 54
1940 Jan Kubelik composer, dies at 60
1942 Buck Jones Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried
1951 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
1955 Paul Harvey actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
1958 Ferdinand Bruckner writer, dies at 67
1959 K S Duleepsinhji cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), dies
1963 Herbert H Lehman (Governor-D-NY), dies
1963 Karl Amadeus Hartmann composer, dies at 58
1964 Remy Angenot Flemish actor (Tailor Wibbel), dies at 70
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Birthdates which occurred on December 06:
1285 Ferdinand V king of Castile & León
1421 Henry VI king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer
1608 George Monck/Monk English general/Governor of Scotland
1731 S von Laroche writer
1732 Warren Hastings England, 1st Governorernor-General of India (1773-84)
1743 Franz Nikolaus Novotny composer
1768 Johann Baptist Henneberg composer
1775 Nicolas Isouard composer
1776 Paul Friedrich Struck composer
1792 Abraham J van de Aa lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary)
1792 Willem II Frederik King of Netherlands (1840-49)
1806 Louis-Gilbert Duprez composer
1808 Johan M Dautzenberg Flemish author (Future)
1808 Johann Christian Gebauer composer
1809 Stephen Thomas Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1816 Henry Eustace McCulloch Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1822 John Eberhard built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
1831 Joshua Woodrow Sill Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1833 John Singleton Mosby lawyer/Colonel (Confederate Army), died in 1916
1843 Albert de Vriendt Flemish historical painter/etcher
1846 Henryk Jarecki composer
1870 William S Hart actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
1872 Mikulas Moyzes composer
1876 Dewi Angrènie [Martha CA Giese] Flemish/Dutch actress (Champagne)
1884 Rose Schneiderman New York State Department of Labor Secretary (1937-44)
1885 Albrecht Schaeffer German writer (The General)
1886 Joyce Kilmer US, (male) poet (Trees)
1887 Joseph Lamb composer
1887 Lynn Fontanne Woodford England, Broadway actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
1892 F Osbert S Sitwell London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame)
1892 Lina Carstens Wiesbaden Germany, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug)
1893 Lou Little college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
1896 George Trafton NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1896 Ira Gershwin lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
1896 Arnold Foster composer
1897 John Axel Fernstrom composer
1897 O W Cisek writer
1898 Gunnar Myrdal Swedenden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974)
1898 Herman Shumlin actor (Watch on the Rhine)
1898 Alfred Eisenstaedt photo journalist
1899 Harry Buller Siege Willis son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith
1899 Nikolai Batalov Moscow Russia, actor (Mother)
1902 Virgilio Mortari composer
1904 Eve Denise Curie French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie
1906 Agnes Moorehead Clinton MA, actress (Endora-Bewitched)
1906 Antoon Spinoy Belgian politician
1909 Alan McGilvray cricketer (20 games for New South Wales mid 30's)/cmmentator (ABC)
1909 Kenneth Watkins woodland conservationist
1910 Alan McGilvray cricket commentator
1911 Alfred James Broomhall Methodist missionary
1913 Eleanor Holm New York NY, 100 meter backstroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)
1914 Cyril Washbrook cricketer (stalwart Lancs & England opener)
1918 Granville James Leveson Gower land owner
1918 Harold Horace Hopkins inventor (Endoscope)
1285 Ferdinand V king of Castile & León
1421 Henry VI king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer
1608 George Monck/Monk English general/Governor of Scotland
1731 S von Laroche writer
1732 Warren Hastings England, 1st Governorernor-General of India (1773-84)
1743 Franz Nikolaus Novotny composer
1768 Johann Baptist Henneberg composer
1775 Nicolas Isouard composer
1776 Paul Friedrich Struck composer
1792 Abraham J van de Aa lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary)
1792 Willem II Frederik King of Netherlands (1840-49)
1806 Louis-Gilbert Duprez composer
1808 Johan M Dautzenberg Flemish author (Future)
1808 Johann Christian Gebauer composer
1809 Stephen Thomas Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1816 Henry Eustace McCulloch Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1822 John Eberhard built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
1831 Joshua Woodrow Sill Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1833 John Singleton Mosby lawyer/Colonel (Confederate Army), died in 1916
1843 Albert de Vriendt Flemish historical painter/etcher
1846 Henryk Jarecki composer
1870 William S Hart actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
1872 Mikulas Moyzes composer
1876 Dewi Angrènie [Martha CA Giese] Flemish/Dutch actress (Champagne)
1884 Rose Schneiderman New York State Department of Labor Secretary (1937-44)
1885 Albrecht Schaeffer German writer (The General)
1886 Joyce Kilmer US, (male) poet (Trees)
1887 Joseph Lamb composer
1887 Lynn Fontanne Woodford England, Broadway actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
1892 F Osbert S Sitwell London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame)
1892 Lina Carstens Wiesbaden Germany, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug)
1893 Lou Little college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
1896 George Trafton NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1896 Ira Gershwin lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
1896 Arnold Foster composer
1897 John Axel Fernstrom composer
1897 O W Cisek writer
1898 Gunnar Myrdal Swedenden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974)
1898 Herman Shumlin actor (Watch on the Rhine)
1898 Alfred Eisenstaedt photo journalist
1899 Harry Buller Siege Willis son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith
1899 Nikolai Batalov Moscow Russia, actor (Mother)
1902 Virgilio Mortari composer
1904 Eve Denise Curie French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie
1906 Agnes Moorehead Clinton MA, actress (Endora-Bewitched)
1906 Antoon Spinoy Belgian politician
1909 Alan McGilvray cricketer (20 games for New South Wales mid 30's)/cmmentator (ABC)
1909 Kenneth Watkins woodland conservationist
1910 Alan McGilvray cricket commentator
1911 Alfred James Broomhall Methodist missionary
1913 Eleanor Holm New York NY, 100 meter backstroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)
1914 Cyril Washbrook cricketer (stalwart Lancs & England opener)
1918 Granville James Leveson Gower land owner
1918 Harold Horace Hopkins inventor (Endoscope)
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Birthdates which occurred on December 07:
0967 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair Persian mystic
1542 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-1587)
1557 Girolamo Trombeti composer
1598 Giovanni Bernini Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)
1604 Ambrosius Reiner composer
1637 Barnardo Pasquini composer
1648 Giovanni Maria Capelli composer
1731 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron French interpreter
1751 Jurrian F de Frederici Governorernor-General (Suriname)
1754 Jack Jouett American patriot
1761 Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud created wax museum
1772 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz composer
1801 Johann Nepomuk Nestroy Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes)
1808 Hugh McCulloch US Secretary of Treasury
1810 Theodor Schwann German co-originator of cell theory
1823 Leopold Kronecker German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker)
1830 Luigi Cremona Italian mathematician/minister of Education
1835 Dom Joseph Pothier French monk/musicologist
1839 Redvers H Buller English general/large landowner: Natal
1840 Hermann Goetz composer
1842 Otto Ammon German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen)
1847 James Deacon White Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
1847 Solomon Schechter US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1857 Nicola van Westerhout composer
1862 Paul Adam French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde)
1863 John Ebenezer West composer
1863 Pietro Mascagni Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana)
1863 Svetolik Rankovic Serbian writer (Forest King)
1872 Johan Huizinga Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)
1873 Willa Cather US, author (My Antonia)
1876 Ludwig Schiedermair German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
1878 Akiko Yosano Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
1879 Rudolf Friml Czechoslovakian/US composer (Bohemian suite)
1882 Warren Bardsley cricketer (great New South Wales & Aussie opening bat 1909-26)
1887 Ernst Toch Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)
1888 Joyce Cary Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun 1st president of American Newspaper Guild
1888 Hamilton Fish US congress leader/isolationist
1889 Heathcote Dicken Statham composer
1889 Honoré-Gabriel Marcel French philosopher/playwright
1891 Fay Bainter Los Angeles CA, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair)
1892 Nora Nicholson Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)
1894 Stuart Davis US painter
1895 Jack Pennick Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana)
1896 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater composer
19-- Reed St Mark rock drummer (Mind Funk-Sugar Ain't So Swedenet, Fire)
1901 A F [Tony] Pugsley British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
1902 J G Navle cricketer (India's 1st Test wicket-keeper)
1905 Gerard Kuiper Dutch/US astronomer (discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune)
1906 George Richard James saxophonist
1908 Jacques Gans Dutch author/journalist
1908 John H Doeg tennis champion (US Open-1930)
1909 Jacob Kainen artist/curator
1910 Edmundo Ros English orchestra leader
1910 Richard Franko Goldman composer
1910 Rod Cameron Calgary Alberta, actor (City Detective, State Trooper)
1912 Louis Prima New Orleans LA, singer (That Old Black Magic)
1912 Rod Cameron Calgary Alberta, actor (Kansas, Evel Knievel, Oh Susanna, Stampede)
1912 Daniel Jones composer
0967 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair Persian mystic
1542 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-1587)
1557 Girolamo Trombeti composer
1598 Giovanni Bernini Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)
1604 Ambrosius Reiner composer
1637 Barnardo Pasquini composer
1648 Giovanni Maria Capelli composer
1731 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron French interpreter
1751 Jurrian F de Frederici Governorernor-General (Suriname)
1754 Jack Jouett American patriot
1761 Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud created wax museum
1772 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz composer
1801 Johann Nepomuk Nestroy Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes)
1808 Hugh McCulloch US Secretary of Treasury
1810 Theodor Schwann German co-originator of cell theory
1823 Leopold Kronecker German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker)
1830 Luigi Cremona Italian mathematician/minister of Education
1835 Dom Joseph Pothier French monk/musicologist
1839 Redvers H Buller English general/large landowner: Natal
1840 Hermann Goetz composer
1842 Otto Ammon German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen)
1847 James Deacon White Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
1847 Solomon Schechter US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1857 Nicola van Westerhout composer
1862 Paul Adam French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde)
1863 John Ebenezer West composer
1863 Pietro Mascagni Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana)
1863 Svetolik Rankovic Serbian writer (Forest King)
1872 Johan Huizinga Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)
1873 Willa Cather US, author (My Antonia)
1876 Ludwig Schiedermair German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
1878 Akiko Yosano Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
1879 Rudolf Friml Czechoslovakian/US composer (Bohemian suite)
1882 Warren Bardsley cricketer (great New South Wales & Aussie opening bat 1909-26)
1887 Ernst Toch Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)
1888 Joyce Cary Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun 1st president of American Newspaper Guild
1888 Hamilton Fish US congress leader/isolationist
1889 Heathcote Dicken Statham composer
1889 Honoré-Gabriel Marcel French philosopher/playwright
1891 Fay Bainter Los Angeles CA, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair)
1892 Nora Nicholson Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)
1894 Stuart Davis US painter
1895 Jack Pennick Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana)
1896 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater composer
19-- Reed St Mark rock drummer (Mind Funk-Sugar Ain't So Swedenet, Fire)
1901 A F [Tony] Pugsley British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
1902 J G Navle cricketer (India's 1st Test wicket-keeper)
1905 Gerard Kuiper Dutch/US astronomer (discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune)
1906 George Richard James saxophonist
1908 Jacques Gans Dutch author/journalist
1908 John H Doeg tennis champion (US Open-1930)
1909 Jacob Kainen artist/curator
1910 Edmundo Ros English orchestra leader
1910 Richard Franko Goldman composer
1910 Rod Cameron Calgary Alberta, actor (City Detective, State Trooper)
1912 Louis Prima New Orleans LA, singer (That Old Black Magic)
1912 Rod Cameron Calgary Alberta, actor (Kansas, Evel Knievel, Oh Susanna, Stampede)
1912 Daniel Jones composer
In 1983, in Madrid, Spain, an Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 that was accelerating for takeoff killing all 42 people aboard the DC-9 and 51 aboard the Iberia jet.
In 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Reagan.
In 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Reagan.
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Birthdates which occurred on December 08:
0065 -BC- Horace Rome, lyric poet/satirist (Satire, Odes)
1508 Gemma Frisius [Jemme Reinersz] Frisian geographer/astronomer
1626 Christina queen of Swedenden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1704 Anton de Haen medical expert (Ratio Medendi)
1708 Francis I Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
1715 John Althuysen Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery)
1728 Johann G von Zimmermann Swiss author
1730 John Ingen Housz Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia
1731 Frantisek Xaver Dusek composer
1737 Robert Kimmerling composer
1741 Maximilian JLP Gardel French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
1744 Pierre Joseph Candielle composer
1765 Eli Whitney inventor (Cotton Gin)
1789 John Fawcett composer
1795 Jacques François Gallay composer
1811 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer
1822 Luther Prentice Bradley Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1826 Friedrich Siemens German industrialist
1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1828 Robert Bullock Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1832 Björnstjerne Björnson Norway, novelist (Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903)
1861 Aristide Maillol France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
1861 William Crapo Durant founded General Motors
1861 Georges Méliès Paris France, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
1862 Georges Feydeau French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)
1865 Jean Sibelius Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
1865 Jacques Hadamard French mathematician (Taylor series)
1872 J C Powys writer
1877 Paul Emile Ladmirault composer
1879 Paul Klee Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus)
1881 Padraic Colum Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)
1882 Manuel MarÃa Ponce Fresnillo México, composer (Estrellita)
1886 Diego Rivera [Lenin of México] México, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo
1887 Vicente Emilio Sojo Guatire Venezuela, composer
1888 Vesey D'Davoren character actor
1888 Fiske Kimball US architect/art historian
1888 Paul Cavanagh Chislehurst England, actor (Tarzan & his Mate)
1889 W Hervey Allen US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse)
0065 -BC- Horace Rome, lyric poet/satirist (Satire, Odes)
1508 Gemma Frisius [Jemme Reinersz] Frisian geographer/astronomer
1626 Christina queen of Swedenden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1704 Anton de Haen medical expert (Ratio Medendi)
1708 Francis I Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
1715 John Althuysen Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery)
1728 Johann G von Zimmermann Swiss author
1730 John Ingen Housz Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia
1731 Frantisek Xaver Dusek composer
1737 Robert Kimmerling composer
1741 Maximilian JLP Gardel French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
1744 Pierre Joseph Candielle composer
1765 Eli Whitney inventor (Cotton Gin)
1789 John Fawcett composer
1795 Jacques François Gallay composer
1811 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer
1822 Luther Prentice Bradley Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1826 Friedrich Siemens German industrialist
1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1828 Robert Bullock Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1832 Björnstjerne Björnson Norway, novelist (Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903)
1861 Aristide Maillol France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
1861 William Crapo Durant founded General Motors
1861 Georges Méliès Paris France, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
1862 Georges Feydeau French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)
1865 Jean Sibelius Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
1865 Jacques Hadamard French mathematician (Taylor series)
1872 J C Powys writer
1877 Paul Emile Ladmirault composer
1879 Paul Klee Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus)
1881 Padraic Colum Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)
1882 Manuel MarÃa Ponce Fresnillo México, composer (Estrellita)
1886 Diego Rivera [Lenin of México] México, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo
1887 Vicente Emilio Sojo Guatire Venezuela, composer
1888 Vesey D'Davoren character actor
1888 Fiske Kimball US architect/art historian
1888 Paul Cavanagh Chislehurst England, actor (Tarzan & his Mate)
1889 W Hervey Allen US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse)
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Birthdates which occurred on December 11:
1475 Leo X [Giovanni de' Medici] Italy, Pope (1513-21)
1566 Manuel Cardoso composer
1676 Johann Georg Weichenberger composer
1712 Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)
1757 Charles Wesley composer
1758 Carl Friedrich Zelter composer
1781 Sir David Brewster Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope)
1783 Max von Schenkendorf German poet
1793 Pietro Coppola composer
1797 Hiram Paulding rear-admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878
1801 Grabbe writer
1803 Hector Lou Berlioz Côte-Saint-André Isère France, composer (Manqué)
1810 Alfred de Musset Paris France, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
1823 Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin composer
1835 Adolf Stoecker German anti semite/PM
1836 Jan Boissevain Dutch politician/ship owner
1838 Emil Rathenau German industrialist (AEG)
1838 Whitney Eugene Thayer composer
1840 Kemal Bey Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)
1843 Robert Koch German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
1849 Ellen Key Swedendish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman)
1855 Julian Edwards composer
1856 Georgi V Plechanov Russian revolutionary theorist
1863 Annie Jump Cannon US, stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification)
1868 Ernst Henrik Ellberg composer
1874 Paul Wegener German actor/director (Student of Prag)
1876 Mieczyslaw Karlowicz composer
1882 Fiorello La Guardia (Mayor-R-NY, 1933-45)
1882 Max Born Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954)
1889 Paul Kornfeld writer
1892 Leo Ornstein Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form)
1894 Eddie Dowling Woonsocket RI, composer (Anywhere USA)
1896 Georgi K Zjukov Russian minister of Defense (WWII)
1898 Nils J E Ferlin Swedendish poet (Barfotabarn)
1899 Vera von der Heydt psychoanalyst
1904 Joe Coral bookmaker
1905 Eugen Fink German philosopher
1905 Gilbert Roland [Luis Alonso] Juarez México, actor (Juarez, Barbarosa)
1905 Koos van de Griend composer
1906 Birago Diop Senegalees writer/ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs)
1907 Norbert Rosseau composer
1908 Elliott Cook Carter Jr New York NY, composer (Tom & Lily)
1910 Robert Grieve civil servant
1911 Nagib Machfus Egyptian writer (Nobel 1988)
1911 Vincent Henry Kemp poet
1913 Jean Marais Cherbourgh France, actor (Eternal Return, Beauty & the Beast, The Storm Within, Donkey Skin, Orpheus, Stealing Beauty - 1996)
1913 Carlo Ponti Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director (2 Women)
1915 Anna van Beers [Graeve] actress (A Woman like Eve)
1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970)
1920 Eddy Firestone San Francisco
Birthdates which occurred on December 11:
1475 Leo X [Giovanni de' Medici] Italy, Pope (1513-21)
1566 Manuel Cardoso composer
1676 Johann Georg Weichenberger composer
1712 Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)
1757 Charles Wesley composer
1758 Carl Friedrich Zelter composer
1781 Sir David Brewster Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope)
1783 Max von Schenkendorf German poet
1793 Pietro Coppola composer
1797 Hiram Paulding rear-admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878
1801 Grabbe writer
1803 Hector Lou Berlioz Côte-Saint-André Isère France, composer (Manqué)
1810 Alfred de Musset Paris France, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
1823 Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin composer
1835 Adolf Stoecker German anti semite/PM
1836 Jan Boissevain Dutch politician/ship owner
1838 Emil Rathenau German industrialist (AEG)
1838 Whitney Eugene Thayer composer
1840 Kemal Bey Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)
1843 Robert Koch German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
1849 Ellen Key Swedendish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman)
1855 Julian Edwards composer
1856 Georgi V Plechanov Russian revolutionary theorist
1863 Annie Jump Cannon US, stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification)
1868 Ernst Henrik Ellberg composer
1874 Paul Wegener German actor/director (Student of Prag)
1876 Mieczyslaw Karlowicz composer
1882 Fiorello La Guardia (Mayor-R-NY, 1933-45)
1882 Max Born Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954)
1889 Paul Kornfeld writer
1892 Leo Ornstein Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form)
1894 Eddie Dowling Woonsocket RI, composer (Anywhere USA)
1896 Georgi K Zjukov Russian minister of Defense (WWII)
1898 Nils J E Ferlin Swedendish poet (Barfotabarn)
1899 Vera von der Heydt psychoanalyst
1904 Joe Coral bookmaker
1905 Eugen Fink German philosopher
1905 Gilbert Roland [Luis Alonso] Juarez México, actor (Juarez, Barbarosa)
1905 Koos van de Griend composer
1906 Birago Diop Senegalees writer/ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs)
1907 Norbert Rosseau composer
1908 Elliott Cook Carter Jr New York NY, composer (Tom & Lily)
1910 Robert Grieve civil servant
1911 Nagib Machfus Egyptian writer (Nobel 1988)
1911 Vincent Henry Kemp poet
1913 Jean Marais Cherbourgh France, actor (Eternal Return, Beauty & the Beast, The Storm Within, Donkey Skin, Orpheus, Stealing Beauty - 1996)
1913 Carlo Ponti Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director (2 Women)
1915 Anna van Beers [Graeve] actress (A Woman like Eve)
1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970)
1920 Eddy Firestone San Francisco