Famous Birthdays In December - 11

1465  On this day in history birth of ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)  

1475  Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1513-21) was born on this day in history.  

1475  On this day in history birth of pope Leo X (d. 1521)  

1566  On December - 11 birth of manuel Cardoso, composer  

1676  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer was born on this day in history.  

1709  On this day in history birth of louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742)  

1712  On this day in history birth of francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)  

1725  On December - 11 birth of george Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)  

1757  On December - 11 birth of charles Wesley, composer  

1758  Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer was born on December - 11.  

1761  Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835) was born on this day in history.  

1781  David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope) was born on this day in history.  

1783  On December - 11 birth of max von Schenkendorf, German poet  

1793  Pietro Coppola, composer was born on this day in history.  

1797  On this day in history birth of hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878  

1801  Grabbe, writer was born on this day in history.  

1803  Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869) was born on December - 11.  

1810  On December - 11 birth of alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)  

1823  On December - 11 birth of yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer  

1835  On this day in history birth of adolf Stoecker, German anti semite/PM  

1836  On this day in history birth of jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner  

1838  On December - 11 birth of emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)  

1838  Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer was born on December - 11.  

1840  Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872) was born on December - 11.  

1843  On this day in history birth of robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)  

1849  Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman) was born on December - 11.  

1855  On December - 11 birth of julian Edwards, composer  

1856  On this day in history birth of georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist  

1856  On this day in history birth of plechanow, writer  

1858  On this day in history birth of vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)  

1863  Annie Jump Cannon, US, stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification) was born on December - 11.  

1868  On this day in history birth of ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer  

1873  Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967) was born on December - 11.  

1874  Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Student of Prag) was born on December - 11.  

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0384  On this day in history death of pope Damasus I  

0711  On December - 11 justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42  

1121  Death of Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066) on this day in history.  

1226  Death of Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177) on this day in history.  

1282  Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies on this day in history.  

1282  On December - 11 death of llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales.  

1524  On December - 11 death of henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake  

1532  On December - 11 death of pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)