Anniversaries 2 December
Birth
![William Cooper (judge) photo]()
judge 1754-1809
1754–1809
![William Burges photo]()
English architect
1827–1881
![C. T. Studd photo]()
British cricketer and missionary
1860–1931
![Susan Stebbing photo]()
British philosopher
1885–1943
![Otto Dix photo]()
German painter and printmaker
1891–1969
![George Frederick James Temple photo]()
British mathematician
1901–1992
![Ida Friederike Görres photo]()
Austrian writer and noble
1901–1971
![Osvaldo Pugliese photo]()
Argentine pianist, tango composer
1905–1995
![Russell Lynes photo]()
American art historian
1910–1991
![Howard Finster photo]()
American artist
1916–2001
![Ali Meshkini photo]()
Iranian ayatollah
1922–2007
![Maria Callas photo]()
American-born Greek operatic soprano
1923–1977
![Alexander Haig photo]()
former U.S. States Secretary of State and U.S. Army general
1924–2010
![Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt photo]()
German theologian
1928–2002
![Gary S. Becker photo]()
American economist
1930–2014
![Edwin Meese III photo]()
American presidential advisor
1931
![Nigel Calder photo]()
British science writer
1931–2014
![Alfred Clifton Hughes photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop
1932
![Peter Duesberg photo]()
American cell biologist
1936
![James C. Scott photo]()
American political scientist and anthropologist
1936
![T.C. Boyle photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1948
![Paul Watson photo]()
Canadian environmental activist
1950
![Caroline Myss photo]()
author from the United States
1952
![Joel Fuhrman photo]()
Family Physician and author
1953
![Icyang Parod photo]()
Taiwanese Amis politician
1960
![Lucy Liu photo]()
American actress and model
1968
![François-Eudes Chanfrault photo]()
Composer and musician
1974–2016
![Britney Spears photo]()
American singer, dancer and actress
1981
Death
![Gerardus Mercator photo]()
cartographer, philosopher and mathematician
1512–1594
![Pasquier Quesnel photo]()
French theologian
1634–1719
![Marquis de Sade photo]()
French novelist and philosopher
1740–1814
![Lewis Gompertz photo]()
Early animal rights activist
1783–1861
![John Brown (abolitionist) photo]()
American abolitionist
1800–1859
![Jay Gould photo]()
American businessman
1836–1892
![John J. Whitacre photo]()
American politician
1860–1938
![Filippo Tommaso Marinetti photo]()
Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement
1876–1944
![L. E. J. Brouwer photo]()
Dutch mathematician and logician
1881–1966
![Kliment Voroshilov photo]()
Soviet military commander
1881–1969
![Aaron Copland photo]()
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conduct…
1900–1990
![Ruth Nanda Anshen photo]()
American philosopher, author and editor
1900–2003
![Joey Adams photo]()
American comedian, newspaper columnist
1911–1999
![Robertson Davies photo]()
Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov…
1913–1995
![Romain Gary photo]()
French writer and diplomat
1914–1980
![Elizabeth Hardwick photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, literary critic
1916–2007
![Dinu Lipatti photo]()
Pianist, Composer
1917–1950
![Achille Castiglioni photo]()
Italian designers and architect
1918–2002
![Philip Larkin photo]()
English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
1922–1985
![Christopher Logue photo]()
Poet, screenwriter, actor
1926–2011
![Valéry Giscard d'Estaing photo]()
President of France
1926–2020
![Ivan Illich photo]()
austrian philosopher and theologist
1926–2002
![Robert K. Massie photo]()
Historian, writer
1929–2019
![Marty Feldman photo]()
British actor and comedian
1934–1982
![Sandy Berger photo]()
US National Security Advisor
1945–2015
