Anniversaries 24 December
Birth
![Benjamin Rush photo]()
American physician, educator, author
1745–1813
![George Crabbe photo]()
English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
1754–1832
![Charles Boarman photo]()
US Navy Rear Admiral
1795–1879
![Adam Mickiewicz photo]()
Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, trans…
1798–1855
![Kit Carson photo]()
American frontiersman and Union Army general
1809–1868
![James Prescott Joule photo]()
English physicist and brewer
1818–1889
![Matthew Arnold photo]()
English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector…
1822–1888
![John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn photo]()
British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor
1838–1923
![Emanuel Lasker photo]()
German World Chess Champion and grandmaster, contract bridg…
1868–1941
![Georges Guynemer photo]()
French flying ace
1894–1917
![James Hadley Chase photo]()
writer from England
1906–1985
![I. F. Stone photo]()
American investigative journalist and author
1907–1989
![Fritz Leiber photo]()
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
1910–1992
![Ivan Kostov Nikolov photo]()
Bulgarian mineralogist
1913–2004
![Ad Reinhardt photo]()
American painter
1913–1967
![Pierre Soulages photo]()
French painter and engraver
1919
![Ava Gardner photo]()
American actress
1922–1990
![George S. Patton IV photo]()
U.S. Army general
1923–2004
![Atal Bihari Vajpayee photo]()
10th Prime Minister of India
1924–2018
![Marc Ferro photo]()
French historian
1924–2021
![Mary Higgins Clark photo]()
Novelist, writer
1927–2020
![Walter Abish photo]()
Austrian-American author
1931
![Stjepan Mesić photo]()
Former Croatian and Yugoslav president
1934
![Anthony Fauci photo]()
American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institu…
1940
![Tarja Halonen photo]()
11th President of Finland
1943
![Karl Marlantes photo]()
Businessman, novelist
1944
![Lemmy Kilmister photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1945–2015
![Jeff Sessions photo]()
Former United States Attorney General
1946
![David Cay Johnston photo]()
Investigative journalist and author
1948
![Menghesteab Tesfamariam photo]()
Eritrean Catholic archbishop
1948
![Andrew Hsia photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1950
![Gregory Scott Paul photo]()
U.S. researcher, author, paleontologist, and illustrator
1954
![Sharon G. Flake photo]()
American children's writer
1955
![Hamid Karzai photo]()
President of Afghanistan
1957
![Michael T. Flynn photo]()
25th United States National Security Advisor
1958
![Ilham Aliyev photo]()
4th President of Azerbaijan from 2003
1961
![Kate Spade photo]()
American fashion designer
1962–2018
![Ibukun Awosika photo]()
Nigerian business magnate
1962
![Paul Bloom photo]()
Canadian/American psychologist
1963
![Mark Millar photo]()
Scottish comic book writer
1969
![Ricky Martin photo]()
singer from Puerto Rico
1971
![Gaur Gopal Das photo]()
Indian spiritual leader, lifestyle coach and motivational …
1973
![Maria Zakharova photo]()
Russian diplomat and journalist
1975
Death
![Andreas Karlstadt photo]()
German theologian
1486–1541
![Albert Barnes photo]()
American theologian
1798–1870
![Frédéric Bastiat photo]()
French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and…
1801–1850
![Leonard Bacon photo]()
American Congregational preacher and writer.
1802–1881
![Edwin M. Stanton photo]()
American lawyer, judge and politician
1814–1869
![Charbel Makhlouf photo]()
Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
1828–1898
![John Muir photo]()
Scottish-born American naturalist and author
1838–1914
![Charles Hamilton (writer) photo]()
English writer of school stories
1876–1961
![Periyar E. V. Ramasamy photo]()
Tamil politician and social reformer
1879–1973
![Alban Berg photo]()
Austrian composer
1885–1935
![Karl Dönitz photo]()
President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarin…
1891–1980
![Louis Aragon photo]()
French poet, novelist and editor
1897–1982
![Norman Vincent Peale photo]()
American writer
1898–1993
![Barry Perowne photo]()
British crime writer
1908–1985
![Sadik Kaceli photo]()
Albanian artist
1914–2000
![Samael Aun Weor photo]()
Colombian writer
1917–1977
![George Gerbner photo]()
American writer, freelancer and sociologist
1919–2005
![Richard Adams photo]()
English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down
1920–2016
![Samuel P. Huntington photo]()
American political scientist
1927–2008
![John Osborne photo]()
English playwright
1929–1994
![Harold Pinter photo]()
playwright from England
1930–2008
![Richard Rodney Bennett photo]()
English composer and pianist
1936–2012
![Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi photo]()
Iranian politician and cleric
1948–2018
![Dennis O'Driscoll photo]()
Irish poet, critic
1954–2012
