Anniversaries 6 December

Birth

Baldassarre Castiglione4

Italian Renaissance author (1478-1529) 1478–1529

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle2

English soldier and politician 1608–1670

Richard Harris Barham7

British writer and priest 1788–1845

Susanna Moodie1

Canadian writer 1803–1885

Dora Greenwell1

English poet 1821–1882

Max Müller2

German-born philologist and orientalist 1823–1900

Max Müller25

German-born philologist and orientalist 1823–1900

Matthias Barr2

British writer 1831–1911

John S. Mosby14

Confederate Army officer 1833–1916

Frédéric Bazille14

French painter 1841–1870

Evelyn Underhill28

British saint, poet, novelist 1875–1941

Joyce Kilmer42

American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886–1918

Lawrence K. Frank12

American cyberneticist 1890–1968

Dion Fortune10

British occultist and author 1890–1946

Heinrich Robert Zimmer4

German historian 1890–1943

Osbert Sitwell11

British baronet 1892–1969

Sylvia Townsend Warner2

writer, poet, activist 1893–1978

Ira Gershwin12

American lyricist 1896–1983

Gunnar Myrdal26

Swedish economist 1898–1987

Michael Roberts (writer)3

English schoolteacher and man of letters 1902–1948

Paul De Man1

literary theorist 1919–1983

George Porter1

British chemist 1920–2002

Con Houlihan2

Irish sportswriter 1925–2012

Kamal Hanna Bathish1

Israeli-Arab Roman Catholic bishop 1931

Zeki Müren3

Turkish musician 1931–1996

Murphy Pakiam2

Catholic archbishop 1938

Byron Katie73

American spiritual writer 1942

Peter Handke9

Austrian writer, playwright and film director 1942

Keith West1

English singer 1944

Jonathan King2

English singer, songwriter, impresario, record producer and… 1944

Geoffrey Hinton1

computer scientist and psychologist 1947

Yoshihide Suga2

99th Prime Minister of Japan 1948

Joe Hisaishi2

Japanese composer and musician 1950

Craig Newmark1

American entrepreneur and Craigslist founder 1952

Steven Wright178

American actor and author 1955

Arthur Golden66

American novelist 1956

Andrew Cuomo3

56th Governor of New York 1957

Satoru Iwata12

Japanese video game programmer and businessman 1959–2015

Ary Chalus1

French politician 1961

Garth Stein40

American writer 1964

Karl Ove Knausgård1

Norwegian author 1968

Kevin Brockmeier2

writer 1972

Mia Love1

American politician 1975

Stephenie LaGrossa2

American television personality 1978

Brett Velicovich4

1983

Jason Reynolds10

author of young adult novels 1983

Death

Baltasar Gracián31

Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher 1601–1658

Nicholas Rowe7

English poet, dramatist 1674–1718

Jean Pierre Flourens1

1794–1867

Jefferson Davis44

President of the Confederate States of America 1808–1889

Anthony Trollope128

English novelist (1815-1882) 1815–1882

Werner von Siemens2

German inventor and industrialist 1816–1892

Anne Ross Cousin1

Scottish musician and songwriter 1824–1906

Charles Otis Whitman1

American zoologist 1842–1910

Russell Conwell5

American academic administrator 1843–1925

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar65

Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father … 1891–1956

Tunku Abdul Rahman3

Malaysian politician 1903–1990

Harry Harlow9

American psychologist 1905–1981

Denis de Rougemont1

Swiss writer 1906–1985

James Reston5

Journalist, newspaper editor 1909–1995

Richard Stone11

British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner 1913–1991

João Goulart4

24th President of Brazil 1918–1976

Philip Berrigan5

Priest and anti-war activist 1923–2002

William H. Gass16

Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor 1924–2017

Frantz Fanon46

Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutiona… 1925–1961

Barry Long86

Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926–2003

Dmitri Volkogonov2

Russian military officer (colonel-general) and historian 1928–1995