Famous Births, Deaths and Notable Dates in December |
1st - First
Dr. George Birkbeck 1841.
Queen Alexandra 1844.
R. W. Dale 1829.
Ebenezer Elliott 1849.
| 11th - Eleventh
Sir Roger L'Estrange 1704.
Dr. William Cullen 1712.
Colley Cibber 1757.
| 21 - Twenty-first
Jean Baptiste Racine 1639.
Robert Moffat 1795.
Laura Bridgman 1829.
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2nd - Second
David Masson 1822.
John Brown hanged, Charlestown, West Virginia 1859.
Hugh Miller 1856.
| 12th - Twelfth
Chief Justice John Jay 1745.
Gustav Flaubert 1821.
Robert Browning 1889.
| 22 - Twenty-second
Franz Abt 1819.
Thomas W. Higginson 1823.
George Eliot 1880.
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3rd - Third
Samuel Crompton 1753.
Sir Frederick Leighton 1830.
Robert Louis Stevenson 1894.
| 13th - Thirteenth
William Drummond 1585.
Dr. Samuel Johnson 1784.
Joseph Noel Paton 1821.
Phillips Brooks 1835.
Hamilton Mabie 1846.
| 23 - Twenty-third
Michael Drayton 1631.
Robert Barclay 1648.
James Sargent Storer 1854.
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4th - Fourth
Cardinal Richelieu 1642.
William Drummond 1649.
Madame Recamier 1777.
Thomas Carlyle 1795.
John Kitto 1804. | 14th - Fourteenth
Daniel Neal 1678.
Rev. Charles Wolfe 1791.
George Washington 1799.
Frances Ridley Havergal 1836.
| 24 - Twenty-fourth
George Crabbe 1754.
Kit Carson 1809.
Matthew Arnold 1822.
John Morley 1838.
William Makepeace Thackeray 1863.
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5th - Fifth
Martin Van Buren, New York, eighth President United States, 1782.
Christina G. Rossetti 1830.
Alice Brown 1857.
| 15th - Fifteenth
Catherine of Aragon 1485.
George Romney 1734.
Franklin Sanborn 1831.
| 25 - Twenty-fifth
Christmas Day.
Sir Isaac Newton 1642.
William Collins 1721.
Father Taylor 1794.
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6th - Sixth
General George Monk 1608.
Warren Hastings 1732.
Dr. Richard Barham 1786.
| 16th - Sixteenth
John Selden 1584.
Franηois La Rochefoucauld 1610.
George Whitefield 1714.
Jane Austen 1775.
| 26 - Twenty-sixth
Thomas Gray 1716.
Mrs. Southworth 1818.
Stephen Girard 1831.
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7th - Seventh
Cicero assassinated b.c. 43.
John Dalton 1766.
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, 1542.
| 17th - Seventeenth
Sir Roger L'Estrange 1616.
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770.
Sir Humphry Davy 1779.
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807. | 27 - Twenty-seventh
Jacques Bernoulli 1654.
Johann Kepler 1571.
Charles Lamb 1834. |
8th - Eighth
John Pym 1643.
Richard Baxter 1691.
Thomas De Quincey 1859.
Elihu Burritt 1810.
Robert Collyer 1823. | 18th - Eighteenth
Charles Wesley 1708.
Lyman Abbott 1835.
Samuel Rogers 1855.
Sir Joseph John Thomson 1845.
| 28 - Twenty-eighth
Catherine M. Sedgwick 1789.
Woodrow Wilson, Virginia, twenty-seventh President United States, 1856.
Thomas Macaulay 1859.
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9th - Ninth
John Milton 1608.
Sir Anthony Van Dyck 1641.
Joel Chandler Harris 1848.
| 19th - Nineteenth
Gustavus Adolphus 1594.
Horatio Bonar 1808.
F. Delsarte 1811.
Mary A. Livermore 1820.
J. M. W. Turner 1851.
| 29 - Twenty-ninth
Thomas a Becket 1170.
Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, seventeenth President United States, 1808.
William E. Gladstone 1809.
Margaret Bottome 1827.
Pauline O. Louise, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva), 1843.
Christina G. Rossetti 1894.
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10th - Tenth
Thomas Holcroft 1745.
Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet 1787.
Eugene Sue 1804.
| 20th - Twentieth
Louis the Dauphin 1765.
John Wilson Croker 1780.
Cyrus Townsend Brady 1861.
| 30 - Thirtieth
Titus a.40.
William R. Alger 1822.
Rudyard Kipling 1865.
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| | 31st - Thirty-first
New Year's Eve.
John Wycliffe 1384.
Battle of Wakefield 1460.
Charles Marquis Cornwallis 1738.
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Famous Births, Deaths and Notable Dates in December |
