Anniversaries 3 December

Birth

Hasan al-Askari17

Eleventh of the Twelve Imams 846–874

Robert Bloomfield3

British writer 1766–1823

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge24

British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician 1820–1894

Joseph Conrad127

Polish-British writer 1857–1924

Martin Lomasney5

American politician 1859–1933

Jack Judge1

British song-writer and music-hall entertainer 1878–1938

Anton Webern3

Austrian composer and conductor 1883–1945

Rajendra Prasad19

Indian political leader 1884–1963

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog1

Israeli rabbi 1888–1959

Sheng Shicai1

Chinese warlord 1895–1970

Anna Freud4

Austrian-British psychoanalyst & essayist 1895–1982

John V.A. Fine1

American historian 1903–1987

Saul Leiter10

American photographer 1923–2013

Trevor Bailey2

England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster 1923–2011

Edwin Ernest Salpeter1

American astronomer 1924–2008

John Backus4

American computer scientist 1924–2007

F. Sionil José1

Filipino writer 1924

Jean-Luc Godard32

French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic 1930

Abimael Guzmán16

Peruvian communist 1934–2021

Gordon Wu1

Hong Kong businessman 1935

Morgan Llywelyn3

Irish writer 1937

Sally Shlaer2

American computer scientist 1938–1998

Werner Thissen1

Catholic archbishop 1938

Jeffrey R. Holland16

Mormon leader 1940

Joseph Silk8

British-American astronomer 1942

J. Philippe Rushton2

Canadian psychology professor 1943–2012

Craig Raine5

Poet 1944

Ayo-Maria Atoyebi1

1944

Ozzy Osbourne104

English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948

Carl Kruger1

American politician 1949

Benny Hinn13

American-Canadian evangelist 1952

Wan Azizah Wan Ismail4

Malaysian politician 1952

Melinda Haynes1

American writer 1955

Ziad K Abdelnour6

Lebanese-born American investment banker, financier, activi… 1960

Daryl Hannah2

actress 1960

Francesca Lia Block60

American children's writer 1962

Alyson Nöel93

writer 1965

Brendan Fraser1

Canadian American actor 1968

Joe the Plumber6

American conservative activist and commentator 1973

Sean Parker2

American internet technology entrepreneur 1979

Joseph McManners9

British singer, actor 1992

Death

Ja'far al-Sadiq30

Muslim religious person 702–765

Francis Xavier6

Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic saint and missionary 1506–1552

Mary Baker Eddy19

religious leader 1821–1910

Pierre-Auguste Renoir44

French painter and sculptor 1841–1919

Sergey Nechayev10

Russian revolutionary 1847–1882

Robert Louis Stevenson118

Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894

Eliza Calvert Hall3

American author, women's rights advocate and suffragist 1856–1935

George Henry Powell2

songwriter 1880–1951

Alexander Rodchenko3

Russian artist and photographer 1891–1956

Oswald Mosley20

British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists 1896–1980

Philip Barry1

American playwright 1896–1949

Dhyan Chand12

Indian field hockey player 1905–1979

Shiing-Shen Chern6

mathematician (1911–2004), born in China and later acquirin… 1911–2004

Lewis Thomas31

American physician, poet and educator 1913–1993

Gwendolyn Brooks53

American writer 1917–2000

Geoffrey Elton4

historian 1921–1994

Sita Ram Goel192

Indian activist 1921–2003

John B. Anderson4

American politician 1922–2017

Nathaniel Branden10

Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer 1930–2014

Madeline Kahn8

American actress 1942–1999