Anniversaries 19 December

Birth

Horatius Bonar12

British minister and poet 1808–1889

Edwin M. Stanton2

American lawyer, judge and politician 1814–1869

Basil Manly Jr.1

American minister and theologian 1825–1892

Albert A. Michelson5

American physicist 1852–1931

Italo Svevo18

Italian writer 1861–1928

Eleanor H. Porter10

American novelist 1868–1920

Carter G. Woodson15

African-American historian and writer 1875–1950

F. S. Flint12

English Imagist poet 1885–1960

Ingeborg Refling Hagen5

Norwegian writer 1895–1989

Ralph Richardson1

English actor 1902–1983

Leonid Brezhnev32

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1906–1982

Jean Genet32

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist 1910–1986

Benedict Freedman1

American mathematician and writer 1919–2012

Cicely Tyson2

American actress 1924–2021

Lepa Radić1

Serbian partisan 1925–1943

Norman Lamm9

American rabbi 1927

Ginger Stanley2

American model, actress and stunt woman 1931

Pratibha Patil3

12th President of India 1934

Barry Mazur4

American mathematician 1937

Josu Iriondo2

Catholic bishop 1938

Phil Ochs48

American protest singer and songwriter 1940–1976

Lee Myung-bak4

10th President of South Korea 1941

Richard Leakey39

Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician 1944

Francis Daw Tang1

1946

Miguel Piñero3

Puerto Rican writer 1946–1988

Tim Parks3

British writer 1954

Päivi Räsänen1

Finnish politician 1959

Derrick Jensen31

American environmentalist 1960

Soane Patita Paini Mafi1

Tongan Roman Catholic cardinal 1961

Bukola Saraki6

Nigerian politician 1962

Hans Reiser2

American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted m… 1963

Jennifer Beals61

American actress and a former teen model 1963

Jeffrey Tucker38

American writer 1963

Wojciech Polak2

Polish priest 1964

Alyssa Milano2

American actress, singer, producer 1972

Maszlee Malik1

A Malaysian politician 1974

Jeremy Soule3

American composer 1975

Brandon Sanderson313

American fantasy writer 1975

Kevin Devine1

Songwriter and musician 1979

Robin Sloan10

American writer 1979

Salman Aziz3

Bangladeshi independent author and artist 1993

Death

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali37

Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic 1058–1111

Matteo Maria Boiardo8

Italian writer 1441–1494

J.M.W. Turner22

British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and pr… 1775–1851

Emily Brontë151

English novelist and poet 1818–1848

Bayard Taylor13

United States poet, novelist and travel writer 1825–1878

Hugo Munsterberg8

German-American psychologist, philosopher and agitator 1863–1916

Robert Andrews Millikan2

American physicist 1868–1953

Albert Schinz3

American writer 1870–1943

Norman Thomas15

American Presbyterian minister and socialist 1884–1968

Jacques Deval1

French film director and writer 1890–1972

Ram Prasad Bismil2

revolutionary, poet & writer 1897–1927

Berenice Abbott9

American photographer 1898–1991

Frederick Terman3

American electronic engineer 1900–1982

Michael Oakeshott12

British philosopher 1901–1990

Stella Gibbons12

British writer 1902–1989

Dwight Macdonald5

journalist 1906–1982

H. L. A. Hart1

1907–1992; British legal philosopher 1907–1992

Masaru Ibuka8

Japanese businessman 1908–1997

Marcello Mastroianni2

Italian actor 1924–1996

Hugh Iltis3

Czech-American botanist and environmentalist 1925–2016

Robert Bork4

American legal scholar 1927–2012

Bernard Crick25

British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929–2008

Robert D. San Souci1

Children's writer 1946–2014

Kim Peek3

American savant, model for the protagonist of the film "Rai… 1951–2009

Ned Vizzini81

American writer 1981–2013