Anniversaries

17th December 1904 (119 Years)

Paul Cadmus, American painter and photographer, was born.

18th December 1863 (160 Years)

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, is born.

18th December 1869 (154 Years)

Edward Redfield, oil painter of landscapes and buildings was born

18th December 1879 (144 Years)

Paul Klee, Swiss-German artist whose style was influenced by movements that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism, was born.

18th December 1913 (110 Years)

Willy Brandt, German Chancellor, is born.

18th December 1916 (107 Years)

Betty Grable, American musical film actress and pin-up girl from the 1930's and 40's, is born.

19th December 1848 (175 Years)

Emily Brontë, English author and poet, died.

19th December 1915 (108 Years)

Édith Piaf, French singer and icon also known as “The Little Sparrow,” is born.

19th December 1996 (27 Years)

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross, Italian film actor, died in Paris.

20th December 1968 (55 Years)

John Steinbeck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate, died.

21st December 1118 (905 Years)

Thomas Becket, English archbishop and saint, was born.

22nd December 1867 (156 Years)

Théodore Rousseau, French painter, dies.

22nd December 1960 (63 Years)

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist and one of the most significant painters of the 20th century, was born.

23rd December 1888 (135 Years)

Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear.

23rd December 1916 (107 Years)

Beginning of the Battle of Magdhaba (known as the Affair of Magdhaba) during the Defence of Egypt section of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in WWI.

23rd December 1918 (105 Years)

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, statesman who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1982, was born.

23rd December 1929 (94 Years)

Chet Baker, American Jazz musician and vocalist, was born.

23rd December 1989 (34 Years)

Nancy Graves, conceptual sculpture based artist, was born.

24th December 1863 (160 Years)

William Makepeace Thackeray, writer, died.

24th December 1914 (109 Years)

Christmas Day Truce, where on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day during World War I, many soldiers from both sides independently ventured into "no man's land", where they mingled, exchanging food and cigarettes.

24th December 1914 (109 Years)

John Muir, the American naturalist and preservationist, dies.

24th December 1922 (101 Years)

Ava Lavinia Gardner, American actress and singer, was born.

24th December 1942 (81 Years)

General François Darlan of France is assassinated.

24th December 1942 (81 Years)

Funeral of General Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan, Admiral of the Fleet and commander in chief of the French Navy in 1939 at the beginning of WWII.

25th December 1066 (957 Years)

William the Conqueror is crowned King of England.

25th December 1642 (381 Years)

Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and scientist, was born.

25th December 1763 (260 Years)

Claude Chappe, French engineer, created the first practical telecommunications system, is born.

25th December 1889 (134 Years)

Humphrey Bogart, American film and stage actor, was born.

25th December 1918 (105 Years)

Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt, was born.

25th December 1977 (46 Years)

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film, died.

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