Anniversaries 20 December

Birth

James Legge7

missionary in China 1815–1897

Edwin Abbott Abbott87

British theologian and author 1838–1926

Theo Marzials4

Anglo-French poet and eccentric 1850–1920

Elsie De Wolfe2

American interior decorationinterior decorator 1865–1950

John Livingston Lowes2

American academic 1867–1945

Branch Rickey7

American baseball player and coach 1881–1965

Pierre Lecomte du Noüy2

French philosopher 1883–1947

Robert Menzies22

Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia 1894–1978

Susanne K. Langer16

American philosopher 1895–1985

Irene Dunne50

American actress 1898–1990

Max Lerner5

American journalist and educator 1902–1992

Sidney Hook11

American philosopher 1902–1989

Hortense Calisher1

American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist 1911–2009

Morrie Schwartz10

American sociologist 1916–1995

David Bohm42

American theoretical physicist 1917–1992

Väinö Linna12

Finnish writer 1920–1992

Judy LaMarsh33

Canadian politician, writer, broadcaster and barrister. 1924–1980

Geoffrey Howe6

British Conservative politician 1926–2015

Kim Young-sam3

South Korean politician 1927–2015

David Markson4

American writer 1927–2010

William Julius Wilson5

American sociologist 1935

Rana Bhagwandas2

Pakistani judge 1942–2015

Tom Tancredo13

American politician 1945

Sonny Perdue1

31st and current United States Secretary of Agriculture and… 1946

Uri Geller7

Israeli illusionist 1946

Alan Parsons2

audio engineer, musician, and record producer from England 1948

Aloysius Murwito1

Indonesian catholic priest 1950

Binali Yıldırım2

Turkish politician; 27th Prime Minister of Turkey 1955

Roy Spencer2

American meteorologist 1955

Billy Bragg2

English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist 1957

Mike Watt5

musician, songwriter 1957

Steve Sailer22

American journalist and movie critic 1958

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz1

Polish politician 1959

Nalo Hopkinson22

Jamaican Canadian writer 1960

Vik Muniz1

Brazilian artist 1961

Paulo Bitencourt2

1966

Mitch Fatel3

American comedian 1968

Alain de Botton146

Swiss writer 1969

Vasyl Slipak19

Ukrainian opera singer 1974–2016

David Wright5

American baseball player 1982

Death

Ann Taylor (poet)3

British female poet and literary critic 1782–1866

Alfred Bunn4

British businessman, librettist 1796–1860

George Edward Ellis2

American Unitarian clergyman and historian (1814-1894) 1814–1894

Harriet Winslow Sewall2

American poet 1819–1889

Joan Maragall3

Spanish writer 1860–1911

Erich Ludendorff12

German Army officer and later Nazi leader in Adolf Hitler's… 1865–1937

Max Brod2

author, composer, and journalist 1884–1968

J. C. Squire6

British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor 1884–1958

Arthur Rubinstein15

Polish-American classical pianist 1887–1982

W. Edwards Deming33

American professor, author, and consultant 1900–1993

James Hilton5

British writer 1900–1954

John Steinbeck366

American writer 1902–1968

Джон Эрнст Стейнбек1

1902–1968

Richard J. Daley8

American politician 1902–1976

Dmitriy Ustinov4

Soviet military commander and politician 1908–1984

Mignon McLaughlin278

American journalist 1913–1983

Миньон МакЛафлин10

1913–1983

Дениз Левертов1

1923–1997

Denise Levertov49

Poet 1923–1997

Adrian Mitchell9

British writer 1932–2008

Stanley Milgram11

Social psychologist 1933–1984

Carl Sagan365

American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed… 1934–1996

Ranulph Glanville1

British cyberneticist (1946-2014) 1946–2014

Brian Hanrahan2

British journalist and television presenter 1949–2010

Lord Infamous3

American rapper 1975–2013