Anniversaries 22 December
Birth
![Jean Racine photo]()
French dramatist
1639–1699
![Guru Govind Singh photo]()
The tenth and last human Guru of Sikhism
1666–1708
![Hermann Samuel Reimarus photo]()
German philosopher
1694–1768
![Thomas Wentworth Higginson photo]()
Union United States Army officer
1823–1911
![Jean Henri Fabre photo]()
French entomologist and author
1823–1915
![Sarada Devi photo]()
Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
1853–1920
![Giacomo Puccini photo]()
Italian composer
1858–1924
![Filippo Tommaso Marinetti photo]()
Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement
1876–1944
![Edgard Varèse photo]()
French composer
1883–1965
![Srinivasa Ramanujan photo]()
Indian mathematician
1887–1920
![John C. Slater photo]()
American physicist
1900–1976
![Kenneth Rexroth photo]()
American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou…
1905–1982
![Leah Bodine Drake photo]()
American writer
1914–1964
![Brownie Mary photo]()
American medical cannabis activist
1922–1999
![Tomás Rivera photo]()
American academic
1935–1984
![James Burke (science historian) photo]()
British broadcaster, science historian, author, and televis…
1936
![Paul Wolfowitz photo]()
American politician, diplomat, and technocrat
1943
![Gareth Morgan photo]()
Organizational theorist
1943
![Arthur G. Bedeian photo]()
American business theorist
1946
![Kazuo Hirai photo]()
Japanese businessman
1960
![Jean-Michel Basquiat photo]()
American artist
1960–1988
![Mariko Tamaki photo]()
Canadian writer and artist
1975
![Chris Carmack photo]()
American actor and model
1980
![Basshunter photo]()
Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
1984
![Jordin Sparks photo]()
American singer, winner of 2007 American Idol
1989
![Meghan Trainor photo]()
American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1993
Death
![István Küzmics photo]()
Hungarian translator
1723–1779
![William Cooper (judge) photo]()
judge 1754-1809
1754–1809
![Martin Joseph Routh photo]()
Classical scholar and college head
1755–1854
![James Francis Stephens photo]()
British ornithologist and entomologist
1792–1852
![Théodore Rousseau photo]()
French painter (1812-1867)
1812–1867
![George Eliot photo]()
English novelist, journalist and translator
1819–1880
![Paul de Lagarde photo]()
German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist
1827–1891
![Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt photo]()
American writer
1836–1919
![Dwight L. Moody photo]()
American evangelist and publisher
1837–1899
![Henry Burchard Fine photo]()
American academic
1858–1928
![Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis) photo]()
Journalist, author, critic
1863–1930
![Beatrix Potter photo]()
English children's writer and illustrator
1866–1943
![Otto Neurath photo]()
austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist
1882–1945
![Randolph Bourne photo]()
American writer
1886–1918
![Vittore Pisani photo]()
Italian linguist
1899–1990
![Ernesto Grassi photo]()
Italian philosopher
1902–1991
![Nathanael West photo]()
American writer
1903–1940
![Samuel Beckett photo]()
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
1906–1989
![James Meade photo]()
British economist
1907–1995
![Henry Summers photo]()
British civil servant
1911–2005
![Jane Langton photo]()
Novelist, children's writer
1922–2018
![Ram Dass photo]()
American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of t…
1931–2019
![Talal bin Abdul Aziz photo]()
Member of House of Saud
1931–2018
![Lim Keng Yaik photo]()
Minister of Energy, Water and Member of ParliamentCommunica…
1939–2012
![Paddy Ashdown photo]()
British politician and diplomat
1941–2018
![Joe Strummer photo]()
British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
1952–2002
