Anniversaries 3 December
Birth
![Hasan al-Askari photo]()
Eleventh of the Twelve Imams
846–874
![John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge photo]()
British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
1820–1894
![Joseph Conrad photo]()
Polish-British writer
1857–1924
![Martin Lomasney photo]()
American politician
1859–1933
![Jack Judge photo]()
British song-writer and music-hall entertainer
1878–1938
![Anton Webern photo]()
Austrian composer and conductor
1883–1945
![Rajendra Prasad photo]()
Indian political leader
1884–1963
![Sheng Shicai photo]()
Chinese warlord
1895–1970
![Anna Freud photo]()
Austrian-British psychoanalyst & essayist
1895–1982
![John V.A. Fine photo]()
American historian
1903–1987
![Saul Leiter photo]()
American photographer
1923–2013
![Trevor Bailey photo]()
England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster
1923–2011
![Edwin Ernest Salpeter photo]()
American astronomer
1924–2008
![John Backus photo]()
American computer scientist
1924–2007
![Jean-Luc Godard photo]()
French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic
1930
![Abimael Guzmán photo]()
Peruvian communist
1934–2021
![Gordon Wu photo]()
Hong Kong businessman
1935
![Sally Shlaer photo]()
American computer scientist
1938–1998
![Joseph Silk photo]()
British-American astronomer
1942
![J. Philippe Rushton photo]()
Canadian psychology professor
1943–2012
![Ozzy Osbourne photo]()
English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
1948
![Benny Hinn photo]()
American-Canadian evangelist
1952
![Wan Azizah Wan Ismail photo]()
Malaysian politician
1952
![Ziad K Abdelnour photo]()
Lebanese-born American investment banker, financier, activi…
1960
![Francesca Lia Block photo]()
American children's writer
1962
![Brendan Fraser photo]()
Canadian American actor
1968
![Joe the Plumber photo]()
American conservative activist and commentator
1973
![Sean Parker photo]()
American internet technology entrepreneur
1979
![Joseph McManners photo]()
British singer, actor
1992
Death
![Ja'far al-Sadiq photo]()
Muslim religious person
702–765
![Francis Xavier photo]()
Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic saint and missionary
1506–1552
![Mary Baker Eddy photo]()
religious leader
1821–1910
![Pierre-Auguste Renoir photo]()
French painter and sculptor
1841–1919
![Sergey Nechayev photo]()
Russian revolutionary
1847–1882
![Robert Louis Stevenson photo]()
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
1850–1894
![Eliza Calvert Hall photo]()
American author, women's rights advocate and suffragist
1856–1935
![Alexander Rodchenko photo]()
Russian artist and photographer
1891–1956
![Oswald Mosley photo]()
British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists
1896–1980
![Philip Barry photo]()
American playwright
1896–1949
![Dhyan Chand photo]()
Indian field hockey player
1905–1979
![Shiing-Shen Chern photo]()
mathematician (1911–2004), born in China and later acquirin…
1911–2004
![Lewis Thomas photo]()
American physician, poet and educator
1913–1993
![Gwendolyn Brooks photo]()
American writer
1917–2000
![Sita Ram Goel photo]()
Indian activist
1921–2003
![John B. Anderson photo]()
American politician
1922–2017
![Nathaniel Branden photo]()
Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer
1930–2014
![Madeline Kahn photo]()
American actress
1942–1999
