Anniversaries 14 December

Birth

Nostradamus6

French apothecary and reputed seer 1503–1566

Anne Conway2

British philosopher 1631–1679

Charles Wolfe6

Irish poet 1791–1823

Noah Porter2

American academic 1811–1892

Frances Ridley Havergal15

British poet and hymn-writer 1836–1879

Charles Otis Whitman1

American zoologist 1842–1910

Daniel De Leon7

American newspaper editor 1852–1914

Natalia Nordman1

Russian author 1863–1914

Roger Fry9

English artist and art critic 1866–1934

Charles Seeger1

American musicologist 1886–1979

Paul Éluard4

French poet 1895–1952

Jorge VI4

King of the United Kingdom 1895–1952

James Doolittle3

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient 1896–1993

Margaret Chase Smith20

Member of the United States Senate from Maine 1897–1995

Thomas A. Bailey5

American historian 1902–1983

Shirley Jackson49

novelist, short story writer 1916–1965

Elyse Knox2

American actress 1917–2012

B.K.S. Iyengar83

Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918–2014

Rosemary Sutcliff3

English author 1920–1992

Lawrence Haworth1

American-Canadian philosopher 1926

Stewart Brand10

American writer 1938

Ellen Willis43

writer, activist 1941–2006

Jack Cafferty8

American journalist 1942

Patty Duke1

American actress 1946–2016

Antony Beevor1

English military historian 1946

Dilma Rousseff13

36th President of Brazil 1947

John Mearsheimer32

American political scientist 1947

Amy Hempel24

Short story writer 1951

Mike Scott41

songwriter, musician 1958

James Comey46

American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bur… 1960

Ebrahim Raisi3

Iranian president 1960

Vytautas Juozapaitis24

Lithuanian opera singer 1963

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith11

One of Al-Qaeda's official spokesmen 1965

Sarah Zettel16

American writer 1966

Kelley Armstrong122

Canadian writer 1968

Rachel Cohn59

American writer 1968

Thuy Trang5

Vietnamese actress (1973-2001) 1973–2001

Sophie Monk2

Australian actor and singer 1979

Reza Goodary10

Mixed martial artist 1988

Death

John of the Cross48

Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542–1591

Henry Aldrich1

Theologian, philosopher, architect, and poet 1647–1710

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach3

German harpsichordist and composer 1714–1788

Ignatius Sancho27

British composer, writer and grocer 1729–1780

George Washington186

first President of the United States 1732–1799

Vincenzo Cuoco2

Italian historian and writer 1770–1823

Louis Agassiz8

Swiss naturalist 1807–1873

Saint Nimatullah Kassab4

Lebanese Maronite monk and saint 1808–1858

Albert, Prince Consort2

husband of Queen Victoria 1819–1861

John Harvey Kellogg14

American physician 1852–1943

Alfred Cochrane2

English cricketer 1865–1948

Stanley Baldwin225

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867–1947

Juho Kusti Paasikivi2

7th President of Finland 1870–1956

Maurice Baring2

English writer 1874–1945

Kurt Hahn8

German educator 1886–1974

Walter Lippmann14

American journalist 1889–1974

Дороти Бернард1

actress 1890–1955

John Rupert Firth14

English linguist 1890–1960

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim6

former Governor-General of Australia 1891–1970

Stanley Spencer2

English painter 1891–1959

Catherine Doherty29

Religious order founder; Servant of God 1896–1985

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings6

American novelist 1896–1953

Myrna Loy1

American film, television and stage actress 1905–1993

John Arlott2

English sports commentator and writer 1914–1991

Andrei Sakharov57

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist 1921–1989

Maurice Davis13

American rabbi 1921–1993

Friedrich Dürrenmatt19

Swiss author and dramatist 1921–1990

Dennis Lindley14

British statistician 1923–2013

Yu Kwang-chung2

Taiwanese poet 1928–2017

Trevanian1

American writer 1931–2005

Peter O'Toole1

Irish film and stage actor 1932–2013

Robyn Dawes11

American psychologist 1936–2010

Janet Dailey1

American writer 1944–2013