december

• 1 Princess Anna Comnena, historian and writer, b. Constantinople 1083
• 2 Georges Seurat, painter, b. Paris. 1859
• 3 Joseph Conrad, novelist, b. Poland 1857
• 4 Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and writer, b. Prague 1875
• 5 Christina Rossetti, poet, b. London 1830
• 6 Ira Gershwin, composer. b. New York, NY 1896
• 7 Willa Cather, novelist, b. Virginia 1873
• 8 Aristide Maillol, sculptor, b. France 1866
• 9 John Osborne, dramatist, b. London 1929
• 10 Emily Dickinson, poet, b. Massachusetts 1830
• 11 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, b. Roskov, Russia 1918
• 12 Frank Sinatra, singer and actor, b. Hoboken, New Jersey 1917
• 13 Heinrich Heine, poet, b. Dusseldorf, Germany 1797
• 14 Nostradamus, astrologer and prophet, b. Saint-Remy, France 1503
• 15 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer, b. Dijon, France 1832
• 16 Jane Austen, novelist, b. Hampshire 1775
• 17 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, b. Bonn, Germany 1770
• 18 Paul Klee, artist, b. Berne, Switzerland 1879
• 19 Jean Genet, novelist and dramatist, b. 1910
• 20 Harvey S. Firestone, industrialist, b. 1868
• 21 Anthony Powell, novelist, b. London 1805
• 22 Giacomo Puccini, conposer, b. Lucca, Italy 1858
• 23 J. Arthur Rank, film producer, b. Hull, Yorkshire 1888
• 24 Matthew Arnold, poet and critic, b. Middlesex 1822
• 25Humphrey Bogart, actor, b. New York 1899
• 26 Thomas Gray, poet, b. London 1716
• 27 Marlene Dietrich, actor and singer, b. Berlin, 1904
• 28 Pio Baroja, novelist, b. Spain 1872
• 29Charles Macintosh, chemist, b. Glasgow 1766
• 30 Rudyard Kipling, novelist, b. Bombay 1865
• 31 Henri Matisse, artist, b. Picardy, France, 1869