Famous Birthdays In December - 19

1036  Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher was born on this day in history.  

1498  On this day in history birth of andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist  

1554  On this day in history birth of philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)  

1676  On this day in history birth of louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist  

1683  On this day in history birth of philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)  

1699  On this day in history birth of william Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)  

1714  On December - 19 birth of john Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)  

1723  On this day in history birth of susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother  

1744  On December - 19 birth of jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland  

1753  John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy) was born on December - 19.  

1778  On December - 19 birth of princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)  

1779  On this day in history birth of auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris France, engraver  

1783  On December - 19 birth of charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician (Brianchon's theorem)  

1784  Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864) was born on this day in history.  

1790  On this day in history birth of william Parry, England, Arctic explorer  

1792  [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal was born on December - 19.  

1796  On December - 19 birth of manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright  

1797  Josef Theodor Krov, composer was born on December - 19.  

1809  Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belg, paleont (life cycle of tapeworms) was born on December - 19.  

1813  On this day in history birth of thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist (ozone)  

1814  Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, US Secretary of War (1861-65) was born on this day in history.  

1817  On this day in history birth of james Jay Archer, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1864  

1819  James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1895 was born on this day in history.  

1821  On this day in history birth of mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader  

1824  Hercules Robinson, Ire, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97) was born on December - 19.  

1825  On December - 19 birth of george Frederick Bristow, composer  

1831  On December - 19 birth of bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)  

1832  On this day in history birth of john Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone  

1836  On December - 19 birth of maria L Sanford, pioneer educator (PTA)  

1837  On December - 19 birth of john Carpenter Carter, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864  

1849  Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke & steel operation was born on December - 19.  

1852  A[lbert] A Michelson, Strelno Prussia, US physicist (Nobel 1907) was born on December - 19.  

1853  On this day in history birth of charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)\  

1861  Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton Engld, Russian-English translator was born on this day in history.  

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0401  On this day in history anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies  

1075  Death of Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England on this day in history.  

1327  Death of Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy on this day in history.  

1370  Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies on December - 19.  

1614  Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67 on December - 19.  

1737  Death of James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667) on December - 19.  

1741  Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies on December - 19.  

1749  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 on December - 19.