Anniversaries 4 December
Birth
![Thomas Carlyle photo]()
Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian…
1795–1881
![Frances Power Cobbe photo]()
Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist an…
1822–1904
![Errico Malatesta photo]()
Italian anarchist
1853–1932
![Wassily Kandinsky photo]()
Russian painter
1866–1944
![Rainer Maria Rilke photo]()
Austrian poet and writer
1875–1926
![R. C. Majumdar photo]()
Indian historian
1888–1980
![Francisco Franco photo]()
Spanish general and dictator
1892–1975
![Herbert Read photo]()
English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
1893–1968
![Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan photo]()
Indian physicist
1898–1961
![Aaron Siskind photo]()
American photographer
1903–1991
![Cornell Woolrich photo]()
American author and screenwriter
1903–1968
![R. Venkataraman photo]()
seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of In…
1910–2009
![Nino Rota photo]()
Italian composer
1911–1979
![Pierre Stephen Robert Payne photo]()
British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
1911–1983
![I. K. Gujral photo]()
Indian politician
1919–2012
![Albert Bandura photo]()
Canadian psychologist
1925
![Harold J. Morowitz photo]()
American biophysicist
1927–2016
![Gae Aulenti photo]()
Italian architect, lighting and interior designer, and indu…
1927–2012
![Hebe de Bonafini photo]()
President of the Association of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
1928
![Jerry Bridges photo]()
American writer
1929–2016
![Roh Tae-woo photo]()
Army general and President of South Korea
1932–2021
![Gary Gilmore photo]()
American murderer; the first person executed in the United …
1940–1977
![Geert Mak photo]()
Dutch journalist and a non-fiction writer
1946
![Ivars Peterson photo]()
Canadian mathematician
1948
![Surendra Pratap Singh photo]()
Indian journalist
1948–1997
![Jeff Bridges photo]()
American actor, singer-songwriter and producer
1949
![Philip Hammond photo]()
British Conservative politician
1955
![Eric S. Raymond photo]()
American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the …
1957
![Pasuya Yao photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1965
![Jay-Z photo]()
American rapper, businessman, entrepreneur, record executiv…
1969
![Plum Sykes photo]()
British fashion writer
1969
![Tyra Banks photo]()
American model, author and television personality
1973
![Jaclyn Victor photo]()
Malaysian singer; Malaysian Idol winner
1978
![Nick Vujicic photo]()
Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker
1982
![Yamilet Peña photo]()
female gymnast from the Dominican Republic
1992
Death
![John of Damascus photo]()
hymnodist at Mar Saba, Greek Church father, Eastern Orthodo…
676–749
![Omar Khayyám photo]()
Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
1048–1131
![Cardinal Richelieu photo]()
French clergyman, noble and statesman
1585–1642
![Thomas Hobbes photo]()
English philosopher, born 1588
1588–1679
![Nicholas Ferrar photo]()
English scholar and courtier
1592–1637
![John Gay photo]()
English poet and playwright
1685–1732
![Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool photo]()
British politician
1770–1828
![William Sturgeon photo]()
British inventor
1783–1850
![Robert Gilfillan photo]()
British poet and songwriter
1798–1850
![John Tyndall photo]()
British scientist
1820–1893
![Maurice Barrès photo]()
French novelist
1862–1923
![Arthur Frederick Bettinson photo]()
Manager and promoter of the National Sporting Club
1862–1926
![Arthur Chapman (poet) photo]()
American poet and newspaper columnist
1873–1935
![Wu Peifu photo]()
Chinese general
1878–1939
![Karen Horney photo]()
American-German psychoanalyst
1885–1952
![Samuel Abraham Goudsmit photo]()
Dutch physicist
1902–1978
![Margaret Landon photo]()
writer, missionary
1903–1993
![Shunryu Suzuki photo]()
Japanese Buddhist missionary
1904–1971
![Hannah Arendt photo]()
Jewish-American political theorist
1906–1975
![Benjamin Britten photo]()
English composer, conductor, and pianist
1913–1976
![Arnold Lobel photo]()
American children's illustrator and writer
1933–1987
![Frank Zappa photo]()
American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and fil…
1940–1993
![Ali Abdullah Saleh photo]()
President of North Yemen from 1978 to 1990; President of Ye…
1947–2017
![Fred Hampton photo]()
African-American activist
1948–1969
![Jusuf Prazina photo]()
Bosnian mobster
1962–1993
![Pimp C photo]()
Deceased American rapper, 1/2 of UGK
1973–2007
