Anniversaries 1 December

Birth

Anna Comnena8

Byzantine historian 1083–1153

Takeda Shingen2

Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period 1521–1573

Albert Barnes22

American theologian 1798–1870

Black Elk42

Oglala Lakota leader 1863–1950

George Sterling3

American poet and playwright 1869–1926

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff6

German artist 1884–1976

Rex Stout30

American writer 1886–1975

Henry Williamson1

British ruralist and natural history writer 1895–1977

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden24

British economist 1907–2005

Franz Bardon17

Czech hermeticist, illusionist, occultist and writer 1909–1958

Mary Martin13

American actress 1913–1990

Béla H. Bánáthy15

Hungarian linguist and systems scientist 1919–2003

Alex Carey2

Australian psychologist 1922–1988

Stansfield Turner3

former United States Navy admiral and former Director of Ce… 1923–2018

Вуди Аллен (Аллен Стюарт Кенигсберг)2

1935

Woody Allen229

American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, p… 1935

Akira Kubo2

Japanese actor 1936

Richard Pryor12

American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, a… 1940–2005

Brian McEniff1

Irish Gaelic football player and manager 1942

John Crowley27

American writer 1942

Nicholas Negroponte16

American computer scientist 1943

Daniel Pennac4

French author 1944

Bette Midler2

American singer-songwriter, actress, comedian and film prod… 1945

Gilbert O'Sullivan45

Irish singer-songwriter 1946

Jonathan Katz2

Comedian, actor 1946

N.T. Wright15

Anglican bishop 1948

Jaco Pastorius4

Musician, producer, educator 1951–1987

Albert Ho3

Hong Kong politician 1951

Azar Nafisi28

Iranaian academic and writer 1955

Draft:Udit Narayan4

Playback singer 1955

Pat Spillane3

Gaelic football player 1955

Candace Bushnell75

American author 1958

Billy Childish8

British musician 1959

Arjuna Ranatunga7

Sri Lankan cricketer 1963

Jo Walton22

Welsh Canadian writer 1964

Elizabeth Noble4

British novelist 1968

Scott Sigler3

American writer 1969

Tasha Alexander5

American writer 1969

Matt Sanchez5

writer, journalist 1970

Sarah Silverman33

American comedian and actress 1970

Matt Fraction3

American comic book writer 1975

Йоланди Фиссер1

South African singer/rapper 1984

Philip DeFranco1

American video blogger and YouTuber 1985

Tyler Joseph6

American singer-songwriter and record producer 1988

Sun Yang2

Chinese swimmer 1991

Death

Pope Leo X13

Pope from 1513 to 1521 1475–1521

John Austin (legal philosopher)6

legal philosopher 1790–1859

Stuart Merrill4

American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language 1863–1915

Aleister Crowley142

poet, mountaineer, occultist 1875–1947

G. H. Hardy20

British mathematician 1877–1947

David Ben-Gurion39

Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel 1886–1973

J. B. S. Haldane32

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist 1892–1964

Bai Chongxi2

Chinese general 1893–1966

Clark Kerr4

American academic 1911–2003

George Stigler20

American economist 1911–1991

Calvin Mooers5

American computer scientist 1919–1994

James Baldwin163

(1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924–1987

Christa Wolf1

German literary critic, novelist, and essayist 1929–2011