Anniversaries 23 December
Birth
![John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) photo]()
English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
1642–1710
![Robert Barclay photo]()
Scottish Quaker apologist
1648–1690
![Richard Arkwright photo]()
textile entrepreneur; developer of the cotton mill
1732–1792
![Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve photo]()
French literary critic
1804–1869
![Joseph Smith, Jr. photo]()
American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day…
1805–1844
![Samuel Smiles photo]()
Scottish author
1812–1904
![Charles Frederick Webber photo]()
American soldier killed in action
1825–1863
![Harriet Monroe photo]()
American poet and editor
1860–1936
![Nikolaj Velimirović photo]()
Serbian bishop and saint
1880–1956
![Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa photo]()
Sicilian writer and prince
1896–1957
![Aldo Capitini photo]()
Italian philosopher and political activist
1899–1968
![Charan Singh photo]()
prime minister of India
1902–1987
![Norman Maclean photo]()
American author and scholar
1902–1990
![Helmut Schmidt photo]()
Chancellor of West Germany 1974-1982
1918–2015
![John H. Disher photo]()
American aeronautical engineer and NASA manager
1921–1988
![Monique Duval photo]()
Canadian journalist
1924–2014
![Albert Jacquard photo]()
French biologist
1925–2013
![Stanley Wolpert photo]()
American indologist
1927–2019
![Wesley Clark photo]()
American general and former Democratic Party presidential c…
1944
![Peter W. Schramm photo]()
American academic
1946–2015
![John Michael Kudrick photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop
1947
![David Davis photo]()
British Conservative Party politician and former businessman
1948
![Ilchi Lee photo]()
South Korean businessman
1950
![Carol Ann Duffy photo]()
British writer and professor of contemporary poetry
1955
![Jesús Huerta de Soto photo]()
professor of political economy and author
1956
![Gerald Midgley photo]()
New Zealand acaedmic
1960
![Miyuki Miyabe photo]()
a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number o…
1960
![Eddie Vedder photo]()
musician, songwriter, member of Pearl Jam
1964
![Manuel Rivera-Ortiz photo]()
American photographer
1968
![Jeff Landry photo]()
American politician, attorney and businessman
1970
![Jodie Marsh photo]()
English glamour model and television personality
1978
![Carson Cistulli photo]()
American poet and writer
1979
![Holly Madison photo]()
American author, model, showgirl, and television personality
1979
Death
![Nicholas Udall photo]()
English playwright
1505–1556
![Camillo Federici photo]()
Italian actor and playwright (1749-1802)
1749–1802
![Robert Woodhouse photo]()
English mathematician
1773–1827
![Sarah Grimké photo]()
American abolitionist
1792–1873
![John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly photo]()
English Whig politician and judge
1802–1874
![William Henry Channing photo]()
American Unitarian clergyman, writer and philosopher
1810–1884
![William Ellery Channing (poet) photo]()
American writer
1818–1901
![Ellen Clementine Howarth photo]()
American writer
1827–1899
![Swami Shraddhanand photo]()
Indian monk and philosopher
1856–1926
![Kōki Hirota photo]()
Japanese politician executed
1878–1948
![Iwane Matsui photo]()
Japanese general
1878–1948
![Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax photo]()
British politician
1881–1959
![Hideki Tōjō photo]()
former Prime Minister of Japan and Minister of War executed…
1884–1948
![Seishirō Itagaki photo]()
Japanese general
1885–1948
![Lavrentiy Beria photo]()
Georgian Soviet NKVD police chief under fellow Georgian and…
1899–1953
![David Manners photo]()
Canadian-born American actor
1900–1998
![Abraham Joshua Heschel photo]()
Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
1907–1972
![John Paton Davies, Jr. photo]()
American diplomat
1908–1999
![Victor Borge photo]()
Danish and US-American comedian and musician
1909–2000
![Eddie August Schneider photo]()
American aviator
1911–1940
![Edward Schillebeeckx photo]()
Belgian theologian
1914–2009
![Mikhail Kalashnikov photo]()
Soviet and Russian small arms designer
1919–2013
![P. V. Narasimha Rao photo]()
Indian politician
1921–2004
![Alan Harrington photo]()
Welsh footballer
1933–2019
