Anniversaries 6 December
Birth
![Baldassarre Castiglione photo]()
Italian Renaissance author (1478-1529)
1478–1529
![George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle photo]()
English soldier and politician
1608–1670
![Richard Harris Barham photo]()
British writer and priest
1788–1845
![Susanna Moodie photo]()
Canadian writer
1803–1885
![Max Müller photo]()
German-born philologist and orientalist
1823–1900
![Max Müller photo]()
German-born philologist and orientalist
1823–1900
![John S. Mosby photo]()
Confederate Army officer
1833–1916
![Evelyn Underhill photo]()
British saint, poet, novelist
1875–1941
![Joyce Kilmer photo]()
American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
1886–1918
![Lawrence K. Frank photo]()
American cyberneticist
1890–1968
![Dion Fortune photo]()
British occultist and author
1890–1946
![Heinrich Robert Zimmer photo]()
German historian
1890–1943
![Osbert Sitwell photo]()
British baronet
1892–1969
![Sylvia Townsend Warner photo]()
writer, poet, activist
1893–1978
![Ira Gershwin photo]()
American lyricist
1896–1983
![Gunnar Myrdal photo]()
Swedish economist
1898–1987
![Michael Roberts (writer) photo]()
English schoolteacher and man of letters
1902–1948
![Paul De Man photo]()
literary theorist
1919–1983
![George Porter photo]()
British chemist
1920–2002
![Con Houlihan photo]()
Irish sportswriter
1925–2012
![Kamal Hanna Bathish photo]()
Israeli-Arab Roman Catholic bishop
1931
![Zeki Müren photo]()
Turkish musician
1931–1996
![Byron Katie photo]()
American spiritual writer
1942
![Peter Handke photo]()
Austrian writer, playwright and film director
1942
![Jonathan King photo]()
English singer, songwriter, impresario, record producer and…
1944
![Geoffrey Hinton photo]()
computer scientist and psychologist
1947
![Yoshihide Suga photo]()
99th Prime Minister of Japan
1948
![Joe Hisaishi photo]()
Japanese composer and musician
1950
![Craig Newmark photo]()
American entrepreneur and Craigslist founder
1952
![Steven Wright photo]()
American actor and author
1955
![Andrew Cuomo photo]()
56th Governor of New York
1957
![Satoru Iwata photo]()
Japanese video game programmer and businessman
1959–2015
![Stephenie LaGrossa photo]()
American television personality
1978
![Jason Reynolds photo]()
author of young adult novels
1983
Death
![Baltasar Gracián photo]()
Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher
1601–1658
![Nicholas Rowe photo]()
English poet, dramatist
1674–1718
![Jefferson Davis photo]()
President of the Confederate States of America
1808–1889
![Anthony Trollope photo]()
English novelist (1815-1882)
1815–1882
![Werner von Siemens photo]()
German inventor and industrialist
1816–1892
![Anne Ross Cousin photo]()
Scottish musician and songwriter
1824–1906
![Charles Otis Whitman photo]()
American zoologist
1842–1910
![Russell Conwell photo]()
American academic administrator
1843–1925
![Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar photo]()
Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father …
1891–1956
![Tunku Abdul Rahman photo]()
Malaysian politician
1903–1990
![Harry Harlow photo]()
American psychologist
1905–1981
![James Reston photo]()
Journalist, newspaper editor
1909–1995
![Richard Stone photo]()
British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner
1913–1991
![João Goulart photo]()
24th President of Brazil
1918–1976
![Philip Berrigan photo]()
Priest and anti-war activist
1923–2002
![William H. Gass photo]()
Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
1924–2017
![Frantz Fanon photo]()
Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutiona…
1925–1961
![Barry Long photo]()
Australian spiritual teacher and writer
1926–2003
![Dmitri Volkogonov photo]()
Russian military officer (colonel-general) and historian
1928–1995
