Anniversaries 1 December
Birth
![Anna Comnena photo]()
Byzantine historian
1083–1153
![Takeda Shingen photo]()
Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
1521–1573
![Albert Barnes photo]()
American theologian
1798–1870
![Black Elk photo]()
Oglala Lakota leader
1863–1950
![George Sterling photo]()
American poet and playwright
1869–1926
![Rex Stout photo]()
American writer
1886–1975
![Henry Williamson photo]()
British ruralist and natural history writer
1895–1977
![Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden photo]()
British economist
1907–2005
![Franz Bardon photo]()
Czech hermeticist, illusionist, occultist and writer
1909–1958
![Mary Martin photo]()
American actress
1913–1990
![Béla H. Bánáthy photo]()
Hungarian linguist and systems scientist
1919–2003
![Alex Carey photo]()
Australian psychologist
1922–1988
![Stansfield Turner photo]()
former United States Navy admiral and former Director of Ce…
1923–2018
![Woody Allen photo]()
American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, p…
1935
![Richard Pryor photo]()
American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, a…
1940–2005
![Brian McEniff photo]()
Irish Gaelic football player and manager
1942
![Nicholas Negroponte photo]()
American computer scientist
1943
![Bette Midler photo]()
American singer-songwriter, actress, comedian and film prod…
1945
![Gilbert O'Sullivan photo]()
Irish singer-songwriter
1946
![Jaco Pastorius photo]()
Musician, producer, educator
1951–1987
![Albert Ho photo]()
Hong Kong politician
1951
![Azar Nafisi photo]()
Iranaian academic and writer
1955
![Pat Spillane photo]()
Gaelic football player
1955
![Arjuna Ranatunga photo]()
Sri Lankan cricketer
1963
![Jo Walton photo]()
Welsh Canadian writer
1964
![Sarah Silverman photo]()
American comedian and actress
1970
![Matt Fraction photo]()
American comic book writer
1975
![Йоланди Фиссер photo]()
South African singer/rapper
1984
![Philip DeFranco photo]()
American video blogger and YouTuber
1985
![Tyler Joseph photo]()
American singer-songwriter and record producer
1988
Death
![Pope Leo X photo]()
Pope from 1513 to 1521
1475–1521
![John Austin (legal philosopher) photo]()
legal philosopher
1790–1859
![Stuart Merrill photo]()
American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language
1863–1915
![Aleister Crowley photo]()
poet, mountaineer, occultist
1875–1947
![G. H. Hardy photo]()
British mathematician
1877–1947
![David Ben-Gurion photo]()
Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
1886–1973
![J. B. S. Haldane photo]()
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist
1892–1964
![Bai Chongxi photo]()
Chinese general
1893–1966
![Clark Kerr photo]()
American academic
1911–2003
![George Stigler photo]()
American economist
1911–1991
![Calvin Mooers photo]()
American computer scientist
1919–1994
![James Baldwin photo]()
(1924-1987) writer from the United States
1924–1987
![Christa Wolf photo]()
German literary critic, novelist, and essayist
1929–2011
