Anniversaries 4 December

Birth

Persius12

ancient latin poet 34–62

Thomas Carlyle481

Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

Frances Power Cobbe12

Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist an… 1822–1904

Robinson Duckworth2

British priest 1834–1911

Samuel Butler232

novelist 1835–1902

Сэмюэль Батлер1

1835–1902

Errico Malatesta24

Italian anarchist 1853–1932

Edith Cavell5

British nurse 1865–1915

Wassily Kandinsky68

Russian painter 1866–1944

Rainer Maria Rilke176

Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

R. C. Majumdar6

Indian historian 1888–1980

Francisco Franco14

Spanish general and dictator 1892–1975

Herbert Read42

English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art 1893–1968

Fritiof Nilsson Piraten2

Swedish writer 1895–1972

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan1

Indian physicist 1898–1961

Aaron Siskind2

American photographer 1903–1991

Cornell Woolrich9

American author and screenwriter 1903–1968

R. Venkataraman24

seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of In… 1910–2009

Nino Rota2

Italian composer 1911–1979

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne28

British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer 1911–1983

I. K. Gujral11

Indian politician 1919–2012

Albert Bandura3

Canadian psychologist 1925

Harold J. Morowitz1

American biophysicist 1927–2016

Gae Aulenti1

Italian architect, lighting and interior designer, and indu… 1927–2012

Hebe de Bonafini3

President of the Association of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo 1928

Jerry Bridges6

American writer 1929–2016

Roh Tae-woo1

Army general and President of South Korea 1932–2021

Gary Gilmore2

American murderer; the first person executed in the United … 1940–1977

Fumio Kyūma1

Japanese politician 1940

Geert Mak1

Dutch journalist and a non-fiction writer 1946

Ivars Peterson9

Canadian mathematician 1948

Surendra Pratap Singh4

Indian journalist 1948–1997

Jeff Bridges2

American actor, singer-songwriter and producer 1949

Maryam Rajavi3

Iranian politician 1953

Wayne Stetina1

American cyclist 1953

Philip Hammond16

British Conservative politician 1955

Eric S. Raymond22

American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the … 1957

Pasuya Yao1

Taiwanese politician 1965

Шон Картер (Jay-Z)2

1969

Jay-Z20

American rapper, businessman, entrepreneur, record executiv… 1969

Plum Sykes1

British fashion writer 1969

Aymeric Caron1

French journalist 1971

Tyra Banks6

American model, author and television personality 1973

Josh Waitzkin5

Chess player 1976

Jaclyn Victor3

Malaysian singer; Malaysian Idol winner 1978

Ysabella Brave64

American singer 1979

Nick Vujicic3

Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker 1982

Joseph Herscher1

YouTube personality 1985

Yamilet Peña2

female gymnast from the Dominican Republic 1992

Death

John of Damascus3

hymnodist at Mar Saba, Greek Church father, Eastern Orthodo… 676–749

Omar Khayyám94

Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

Cardinal Richelieu7

French clergyman, noble and statesman 1585–1642

William Drummond of Hawthornden13

British writer 1585–1649

Thomas Hobbes97

English philosopher, born 1588 1588–1679

Nicholas Ferrar1

English scholar and courtier 1592–1637

John Gay56

English poet and playwright 1685–1732

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool2

British politician 1770–1828

William Sturgeon2

British inventor 1783–1850

Robert Gilfillan1

British poet and songwriter 1798–1850

John Tyndall40

British scientist 1820–1893

Maurice Barrès7

French novelist 1862–1923

Arthur Frederick Bettinson4

Manager and promoter of the National Sporting Club 1862–1926

Arthur Chapman (poet)10

American poet and newspaper columnist 1873–1935

Wu Peifu3

Chinese general 1878–1939

Karen Horney9

American-German psychoanalyst 1885–1952

Samuel Abraham Goudsmit1

Dutch physicist 1902–1978

Margaret Landon5

writer, missionary 1903–1993

Shunryu Suzuki39

Japanese Buddhist missionary 1904–1971

Hannah Arendt85

Jewish-American political theorist 1906–1975

Benjamin Britten1

English composer, conductor, and pianist 1913–1976

Arnold Lobel3

American children's illustrator and writer 1933–1987

Frank Zappa129

American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and fil… 1940–1993

Ali Abdullah Saleh3

President of North Yemen from 1978 to 1990; President of Ye… 1947–2017

Fred Hampton8

African-American activist 1948–1969

Jusuf Prazina6

Bosnian mobster 1962–1993

Pimp C2

Deceased American rapper, 1/2 of UGK 1973–2007