Anniversaries 20 December
Birth
![James Legge photo]()
missionary in China
1815–1897
![Edwin Abbott Abbott photo]()
British theologian and author
1838–1926
![Theo Marzials photo]()
Anglo-French poet and eccentric
1850–1920
![Elsie De Wolfe photo]()
American interior decorationinterior decorator
1865–1950
![John Livingston Lowes photo]()
American academic
1867–1945
![Branch Rickey photo]()
American baseball player and coach
1881–1965
![Pierre Lecomte du Noüy photo]()
French philosopher
1883–1947
![Robert Menzies photo]()
Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
1894–1978
![Susanne K. Langer photo]()
American philosopher
1895–1985
![Irene Dunne photo]()
American actress
1898–1990
![Max Lerner photo]()
American journalist and educator
1902–1992
![Sidney Hook photo]()
American philosopher
1902–1989
![Hortense Calisher photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist
1911–2009
![Morrie Schwartz photo]()
American sociologist
1916–1995
![David Bohm photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1917–1992
![Judy LaMarsh photo]()
Canadian politician, writer, broadcaster and barrister.
1924–1980
![Geoffrey Howe photo]()
British Conservative politician
1926–2015
![Kim Young-sam photo]()
South Korean politician
1927–2015
![David Markson photo]()
American writer
1927–2010
![William Julius Wilson photo]()
American sociologist
1935
![Rana Bhagwandas photo]()
Pakistani judge
1942–2015
![Sonny Perdue photo]()
31st and current United States Secretary of Agriculture and…
1946
![Alan Parsons photo]()
audio engineer, musician, and record producer from England
1948
![Aloysius Murwito photo]()
Indonesian catholic priest
1950
![Binali Yıldırım photo]()
Turkish politician; 27th Prime Minister of Turkey
1955
![Roy Spencer photo]()
American meteorologist
1955
![Billy Bragg photo]()
English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist
1957
![Mike Watt photo]()
musician, songwriter
1957
![Steve Sailer photo]()
American journalist and movie critic
1958
![Nalo Hopkinson photo]()
Jamaican Canadian writer
1960
![Vasyl Slipak photo]()
Ukrainian opera singer
1974–2016
![David Wright photo]()
American baseball player
1982
Death
![Ann Taylor (poet) photo]()
British female poet and literary critic
1782–1866
![Alfred Bunn photo]()
British businessman, librettist
1796–1860
![George Edward Ellis photo]()
American Unitarian clergyman and historian (1814-1894)
1814–1894
![Erich Ludendorff photo]()
German Army officer and later Nazi leader in Adolf Hitler's…
1865–1937
![Max Brod photo]()
author, composer, and journalist
1884–1968
![J. C. Squire photo]()
British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor
1884–1958
![Arthur Rubinstein photo]()
Polish-American classical pianist
1887–1982
![W. Edwards Deming photo]()
American professor, author, and consultant
1900–1993
![John Steinbeck photo]()
American writer
1902–1968
![Richard J. Daley photo]()
American politician
1902–1976
![Dmitriy Ustinov photo]()
Soviet military commander and politician
1908–1984
![Mignon McLaughlin photo]()
American journalist
1913–1983
![Stanley Milgram photo]()
Social psychologist
1933–1984
![Carl Sagan photo]()
American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed…
1934–1996
![Ranulph Glanville photo]()
British cyberneticist (1946-2014)
1946–2014
![Brian Hanrahan photo]()
British journalist and television presenter
1949–2010
![Lord Infamous photo]()
American rapper
1975–2013
