Anniversaries 19 December
Birth
![Horatius Bonar photo]()
British minister and poet
1808–1889
![Edwin M. Stanton photo]()
American lawyer, judge and politician
1814–1869
![Basil Manly Jr. photo]()
American minister and theologian
1825–1892
![Albert A. Michelson photo]()
American physicist
1852–1931
![Eleanor H. Porter photo]()
American novelist
1868–1920
![Carter G. Woodson photo]()
African-American historian and writer
1875–1950
![F. S. Flint photo]()
English Imagist poet
1885–1960
![Ingeborg Refling Hagen photo]()
Norwegian writer
1895–1989
![Leonid Brezhnev photo]()
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1906–1982
![Jean Genet photo]()
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
1910–1986
![Benedict Freedman photo]()
American mathematician and writer
1919–2012
![Cicely Tyson photo]()
American actress
1924–2021
![Lepa Radić photo]()
Serbian partisan
1925–1943
![Ginger Stanley photo]()
American model, actress and stunt woman
1931
![Pratibha Patil photo]()
12th President of India
1934
![Barry Mazur photo]()
American mathematician
1937
![Phil Ochs photo]()
American protest singer and songwriter
1940–1976
![Lee Myung-bak photo]()
10th President of South Korea
1941
![Richard Leakey photo]()
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician
1944
![Miguel Piñero photo]()
Puerto Rican writer
1946–1988
![Derrick Jensen photo]()
American environmentalist
1960
![Soane Patita Paini Mafi photo]()
Tongan Roman Catholic cardinal
1961
![Hans Reiser photo]()
American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted m…
1963
![Jennifer Beals photo]()
American actress and a former teen model
1963
![Alyssa Milano photo]()
American actress, singer, producer
1972
![Maszlee Malik photo]()
A Malaysian politician
1974
![Brandon Sanderson photo]()
American fantasy writer
1975
![Kevin Devine photo]()
Songwriter and musician
1979
![Salman Aziz photo]()
Bangladeshi independent author and artist
1993
Death
![Abu Hamid al-Ghazali photo]()
Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
1058–1111
![J.M.W. Turner photo]()
British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and pr…
1775–1851
![Emily Brontë photo]()
English novelist and poet
1818–1848
![Bayard Taylor photo]()
United States poet, novelist and travel writer
1825–1878
![Hugo Munsterberg photo]()
German-American psychologist, philosopher and agitator
1863–1916
![Robert Andrews Millikan photo]()
American physicist
1868–1953
![Albert Schinz photo]()
American writer
1870–1943
![Norman Thomas photo]()
American Presbyterian minister and socialist
1884–1968
![Jacques Deval photo]()
French film director and writer
1890–1972
![Ram Prasad Bismil photo]()
revolutionary, poet & writer
1897–1927
![Berenice Abbott photo]()
American photographer
1898–1991
![Frederick Terman photo]()
American electronic engineer
1900–1982
![Michael Oakeshott photo]()
British philosopher
1901–1990
![H. L. A. Hart photo]()
1907–1992; British legal philosopher
1907–1992
![Masaru Ibuka photo]()
Japanese businessman
1908–1997
![Hugh Iltis photo]()
Czech-American botanist and environmentalist
1925–2016
![Robert Bork photo]()
American legal scholar
1927–2012
![Bernard Crick photo]()
British political theorist and democratic socialist
1929–2008
![Robert D. San Souci photo]()
Children's writer
1946–2014
![Kim Peek photo]()
American savant, model for the protagonist of the film "Rai…
1951–2009
![Ned Vizzini photo]()
American writer
1981–2013
