Anniversaries 31 December
Birth
![Andreas Vesalius photo]()
early anatomist
1514–1564
![Horace Smith photo]()
English poet and novelist
1779–1849
![Richard Henry Horne photo]()
English poet and critic
1802–1884
![George Meade photo]()
Union Army general
1815–1872
![James Thomas Fields photo]()
American writer and publisher
1817–1881
![Alexander Smith photo]()
Scottish poet and essayist
1829–1867
![Holbrook Jackson photo]()
British journalist
1874–1948
![Horacio Quiroga photo]()
Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer
1878–1937
![George Marshall photo]()
US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
1880–1959
![Carl Ludwig Siegel photo]()
German mathematician
1896–1981
![Jule Styne photo]()
British-born American songwriter
1905–1994
![Simon Wiesenthal photo]()
Austrian Holocaust survivor noted for his work as a Nazi hu…
1908–2005
![Dal Stivens photo]()
Australian writer
1911–1997
![Lynn Compton photo]()
Easy Company soldier turned noted jurist
1921–2012
![Theodoros Stamos photo]()
American artist
1922–1997
![Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan photo]()
Pakistani Sufi leader
1934–2017
![Anthony Hopkins photo]()
Welsh stage and television actor
1937
![Alex Ferguson photo]()
Scottish footballer and manager
1941
![John Denver photo]()
American singer, songwriter, activist, and humanitarian
1943–1997
![Connie Willis photo]()
American science fiction writer
1945
![Roy Porter photo]()
British historian
1946–2002
![Донна Саммер photo]()
American singer and songwriter
1948–2012
![Trevor Phillips photo]()
British television producer
1953
![Alex Salmond photo]()
Scottish National Party politician and former First Ministe…
1954
![Mohamed Ould Ghazouani photo]()
Mauritanian former general and politician
1956
![Nicholas Sparks photo]()
American writer and novelist
1965
![Junot Díaz photo]()
Dominican-American writer
1968
![Edite Tenjua photo]()
São Tomé and Príncipe lawyer and businesswoman
1972
![Donald Trump Jr. photo]()
American businessman and son of U.S. President Donald Trump
1977
![Josh Hawley photo]()
United States Senator from Missouri
1979
![Edvin Kanka Cudic photo]()
Human rights defender
1988
Death
![Robert Boyle photo]()
English natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and invent…
1627–1691
![William Gifford photo]()
English critic, editor and poet
1756–1826
![Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin photo]()
French politician
1807–1874
![Samson Raphael Hirsch photo]()
Jewish theologian, germany 19th century
1808–1888
![James David Forbes photo]()
Scottish physicist and glaciologist
1809–1868
![Miguel de Unamuno photo]()
19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
1864–1936
![Theodor Reik photo]()
austrian-american psychoanalytist
1888–1969
![Marshall McLuhan photo]()
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor …
1911–1980
![Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi photo]()
Indian islamic scholar
1913–1999
![Thomas Watson, Jr. photo]()
American businessman and diplomat
1914–1993
![Sebastian de Grazia photo]()
American writer
1917–2000
![Gérard Debreu photo]()
French economist and mathematician
1921–2004
![Roy Amara photo]()
American researcher, scientist
1925–2007
![George Michael Sinclair Kennedy photo]()
British historian
1926–2014
![Donald E. Westlake photo]()
American novelist
1933–2008
![Roberto Clemente photo]()
Puerto Rican baseball player
1934–1972
![Joan Micklin Silver photo]()
American film director
1935–2020
![Ricky Nelson photo]()
American musician (1940-1985)
1940–1985
![Rudy Giuliani photo]()
American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New…
1944–2001
![Penny Jordan photo]()
British women's author
1946–2011
![D.M. Turner photo]()
American drug researcher
1962–1996
![John Wycliffe photo]()
English theologian and early dissident in the Roman Catholi…
