Famous Birthdays In December - 21
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
1117 On December - 21 birth of thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury
1401 On December - 21 birth of tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1518 On this day in history birth of mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician
1537 On December - 21 birth of johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)
1596 Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646) was born on December - 21.
1603 Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684) was born on this day in history.
1616 On December - 21 birth of pietro Andrea Ziani, composer
1628 Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer was born on this day in history.
1639 On December - 21 birth of jean Racin, writer
1714 John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774) was born on December - 21.
1728 Hermann Friedrich Raupach, composer was born on this day in history.
1756 On this day in history birth of thomas Anton Kunz, composer
1778 Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860) was born on December - 21.
1795 On this day in history birth of leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1800 On December - 21 birth of barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876
1804 Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80) was born on December - 21.
1805 On this day in history birth of thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)
1805 On December - 21 birth of thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
1810 On this day in history birth of ludwig Schuncke, composer
1815 On this day in history birth of thomas Couture, French painter/author
1818 Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece was born on this day in history.
1818 On this day in history birth of lewis H Morgan, US, etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity)
1823 On December - 21 birth of jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)
1826 Ernst Pauer, composer was born on December - 21.
1832 John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 was born on December - 21.
1840 On December - 21 birth of mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)
1843 On December - 21 birth of thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
1848 Edward Everett Rice, composer was born on December - 21.
1849 James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal) was born on December - 21.
1850 Zdenek Fibich, composer was born on December - 21.
1851 On December - 21 birth of thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1853 On December - 21 birth of isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
1859 On this day in history birth of gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
1860 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah) was born on this day in history.