Anniversaries 21 December
Birth
![Roger Williams (theologian) photo]()
English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of …
1603–1684
![Benjamin Disraeli photo]()
British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri…
1804–1881
![Albert Payson Terhune photo]()
American writer
1872–1942
![Rebecca West photo]()
British feminist and author
1892–1983
![Anthony Powell photo]()
English novelist
1905–2000
![George Ball (diplomat) photo]()
American diplomat
1909–1994
![Heinrich Böll photo]()
German author, novelist, and short story writer
1917–1985
![Kurt Waldheim photo]()
4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, President of A…
1918–2007
![Paul Kurtz photo]()
American professor of philosophy
1925–2012
![Elisabeth Elliot photo]()
American missionary
1926–2015
![Douglas T. Ross photo]()
American computer scientist
1929–2007
![Phil Donahue photo]()
American talk show host, film producer and writer
1935
![Jane Fonda photo]()
American actress and activist
1937
![Frank Zappa photo]()
American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and fil…
1940–1993
![Matthew Fox (priest) photo]()
priest and theologian
1940
![Hu Jintao photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
1942
![Ricardo Galvão photo]()
Brazilian physicist and engineer
1947
![Thomas Sankara photo]()
President of Upper Volta
1949–1987
![Gustavo García-Siller photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop
1950
![Ray Romano photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1957
![Steven Mnuchin photo]()
77th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury
1962
![Kiefer Sutherland photo]()
English-Canadian actor, director, producer, voice actor
1966
![Mikheil Saakashvili photo]()
Georgian-Ukrainian politician, President of Georgia and Gov…
1967
![Patrick Morrisey photo]()
West Virginia politician
1967
![Emmanuel Macron photo]()
25th President of the French Republic
1977
![Isabel Durant photo]()
Australian actor and dancer
1991
Death
![Giovanni Boccaccio photo]()
Italian author and poet
1313–1375
![Ikkyu photo]()
Japanese Buddhist monk
1394–1481
![Marguerite de Navarre photo]()
Queen consort of Navarre
1492–1549
![John Newton photo]()
Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer
1725–1807
![Franz Boas photo]()
German-American anthropologist
1858–1942
![Frank I. Cobb photo]()
American newspaper editor
1869–1923
![Kodo Sawaki photo]()
Japanese zen Buddhist monk
1880–1965
![Eric Temple Bell photo]()
mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland w…
1883–1960
![George S. Patton photo]()
United States Army general
1885–1945
![Kurt Tucholský photo]()
German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer
1890–1935
![Marc Connelly photo]()
American playwright
1890–1980
![F. Scott Fitzgerald photo]()
American novelist and screenwriter
1896–1940
![Stella Adler photo]()
American actress and teaching coach
1901–1992
![Nélson Rodrigues photo]()
Brazilian writer and playwright
1912–1980
![Paul De Man photo]()
literary theorist
1919–1983
![Philippa Pearce photo]()
English children's writer
1920–2006
![Sidney Drell photo]()
American physicist
1926–2016
![Edgar Bronfman, Sr. photo]()
Canadian-American businessman
1929–2013
![Stephen Mitchell photo]()
American psychologist
1946–2000
