Anniversaries 12 December
Birth
![Julien Offray de La Mettrie photo]()
French physician and philosopher
1709–1751
![Erasmus Darwin photo]()
English physician, botanist; member of the Lunar Society
1731–1802
![John Jay photo]()
American politician and a founding father of the United Sta…
1745–1829
![Gerald Griffin photo]()
Irish novelist, poet and playwright
1803–1840
![Gustave Flaubert photo]()
French writer (1821–1880)
1821–1880
![Edvard Munch photo]()
Norwegian painter and printmaker
1863–1944
![Paul Elmer More photo]()
American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologi…
1864–1937
![Addison Mizner photo]()
American architect
1872–1933
![Gerd von Rundstedt photo]()
German Field Marshal during World War II
1875–1953
![Harry Warner photo]()
Film studio executive
1881–1958
![Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz photo]()
Philosopher, logician
1890–1963
![Minnie Evans photo]()
American artist
1892–1987
![Edward G. Robinson photo]()
Romanian American actor
1893–1973
![Lillian Smith (author) photo]()
American author, social critic
1897–1966
![Richard Hartshorne photo]()
American Geographer
1899–1992
![Howard Koch photo]()
American screenwriter
1901–1995
![Patrick O'Brian photo]()
English novelist
1914–2000
![Frank Sinatra photo]()
American singer and film actor
1915–1998
![Marion J. Levy Jr. photo]()
American sociologist
1918–2002
![Igor Ansoff photo]()
American mathematician
1918–2001
![Og Mandino photo]()
American author
1923–1996
![Ed Koch photo]()
former mayor of New York City
1924–2013
![Elizabeth Martinez photo]()
American community organizer, activist, author, and educator
1925
![Ahmad Shamlou photo]()
Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist
1925–2000
![Robert Noyce photo]()
American businessman and engineer
1927–1990
![John Osborne photo]()
English playwright
1929–1994
![Caldwell Esselstyn photo]()
American physician, author and rower
1933
![Michael S. Gazzaniga photo]()
American neuroscientist
1939
![Eric Maskin photo]()
American Nobel laureate in economics
1950
![Helen Dunmore photo]()
British novelist
1952–2017
![Samuel Oton Sidin photo]()
21st-century Indonesian Catholic bishop
1954
![Sheila E. photo]()
American singer and percussionist
1957
![Pravin Togadia photo]()
Indian oncologist, activist
1957
![Scott Douglas photo]()
American wheelchair tennis player
1963
![Mayim Bialik photo]()
American actress, neuroscientist
1975
![Usama Mukwaya photo]()
Ugandan screenwriter
1989
![Angelo Vulpini photo]()
Venezuelan recording artist
2003
Death
![Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke photo]()
English politician and Viscount
1678–1751
![Robert Browning photo]()
English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
1812–1889
![Andrew Taylor Still photo]()
Founder of Osteopathic Medicine
1828–1917
![William Sharp (writer) photo]()
Scottish writer
1855–1905
![Clementine Churchill photo]()
wife of Sir Winston Churchill and a life peeress in her own…
1885–1977
![William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes photo]()
British automobile pioneer
1894–1964
![Tallulah Bankhead photo]()
American actress
1902–1968
![Avery Dulles photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1918–2008
![Morris Udall photo]()
American politician
1922–1998
![Anne Baxter photo]()
American actress
1923–1985
![Heydar Aliyev photo]()
Soviet and Azerbaijani politician
1923–2003
![Joseph Heller photo]()
American author
1923–1999
![Lawton Chiles photo]()
Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging
1930–1998
![Shirley Hazzard photo]()
Australian-Anglo-American novelist, short story writer, mem…
1931–2016
![Ivor Grattan-Guinness photo]()
Historian of mathematics and logic
1941–2014
