Anniversaries 11 December

Birth

Pope Leo X13

Pope from 1513 to 1521 1475–1521

George Mason54

American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional … 1725–1792

David Brewster22

British astronomer and mathematician 1781–1868

Hector Berlioz9

French Romantic composer 1803–1869

Alfred de Musset4

French writer 1810–1857

Max Born19

physicist 1882–1970

Subramanya Bharathi7

Tamil poet 1882–1921

Arthur Guy Empey1

American writer 1883–1963

Mark Tobey22

American abstract expressionist painter 1890–1976

Michael Oakeshott12

British philosopher 1901–1990

Elliott Carter6

American composer 1908–2012

Naguib Mahfouz7

Egyptian writer 1911–2006

Qian Xuesen4

Chinese rocket scientist 1911–2009

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn120

Russian writer 1918–2008

Marie Windsor4

American actress 1919–2000

Grace Paley31

American writer and activist 1922–2007

Maila Nurmi2

Finnish-American actress 1922–2008

Khursheed Kamal Aziz4

historian 1927–2009

Owain Owain4

Welsh novelist, short story writer and poet 1929–1993

Ronald Dworkin5

American legal philosopher 1931–2013

Rajneesh76

Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement 1931–1990

Rita Moreno2

Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress 1931

Pranab Mukherjee8

13th President of India 1935

Jim Harrison20

American novelist, poet, essayist 1937–2016

Thomas McGuane2

American novelist 1939

Derek Parfit24

British philosopher 1942–2017

John F. Kerry31

politician from the United States 1943

Teri Garr1

American film and television actress 1944

Diana Palmer2

American romance novelist 1946

Susan Elizabeth Phillips72

American writer 1948

Mordechai Ben-Ari28

Israeli computer scientist 1948

Tom Shadyac2

American film director 1958

Macky Sall1

current President and former Prime Minister of Senegal 1961

Marco Pierre White2

English chef and restaurateur 1961

Ayelet Waldman13

American- Israeli writer 1964

Sherrilyn Kenyon752

Novelist 1965

Raymond Kethledge2

a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of… 1966

Viswanathan Anand25

Indian chess player 1969

Devdutt Pattanaik5

Indian physician; leadership consultant, mythologist and au… 1970

Khem Veasna11

Cambodian politician 1971

Mos Def9

American rapper and actor 1973

Valentina Lisitsa5

Ukrainian-American classical pianist 1973

Damien Echols1

1974

Christina Hagan1

Member of the Ohio House of Representatives 1988

Ben Bradley (politician)4

British politician 1989

Death

Colley Cibber26

British poet laureate 1671–1757

Robert Cunninghame-Grahame of Gartmore1

British politician, died 1797 1735–1797

Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury5

British politician 1823–1921

Charles Fabry2

French physicist 1867–1945

Aleksandër Stavre Drenova1

Albanian poet 1872–1947

M. S. Subbulakshmi7

singer,Carnatic vocalist 1916–2004

Krafft Arnold Ehricke3

German aerospace engineer 1917–1984

Ravi Shankar5

Indian musician and sitar player 1920–2012

Nanabhoy Palkhivala2

Indian jurist and economist 1920–2002

Sam Cooke13

American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur 1931–1964

James Robert Flynn4

New Zealand scholar 1934–2020

Carlos Almaraz1

Chicano artist 1941–1989

N. S. Rajaram3

Indian mathematician 1943–2019

Richard Sandbrook4

environmentalist 1946–2005

Lynn Strait1

American musician 1968–1998