Famous Birthdays In December - 21
Monday, 18 March 2024
1117 Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury was born on December - 21.
1401 On December - 21 birth of tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1518 On December - 21 birth of mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician
1537 Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92) was born on December - 21.
1596 Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646) was born on December - 21.
1603 On this day in history birth of roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
1616 Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer was born on December - 21.
1628 On this day in history birth of samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer
1639 Jean Racin, writer was born on this day in history.
1714 On December - 21 birth of john Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
1728 On December - 21 birth of hermann Friedrich Raupach, composer
1756 On December - 21 birth of thomas Anton Kunz, composer
1778 Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860) was born on this day in history.
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 Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869) was born on December - 21.
1805 On December - 21 birth of thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
1810 Ludwig Schuncke, composer was born on this day in history.
1815 On December - 21 birth of thomas Couture, French painter/author
1818 On December - 21 birth of amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece
1818 On this day in history birth of lewis H Morgan, US, etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity)
1823 Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders) was born on this day in history.
1826 On this day in history birth of ernst Pauer, composer
1832 On this day in history birth of john Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1840 Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan) was born on this day in history.
1843 On this day in history birth of thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
1848 Edward Everett Rice, composer was born on this day in history.
1849 James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal) was born on this day in history.
1850 On this day in history birth of zdenek Fibich, composer
1851 On this day in history birth of thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1853 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter) was born on December - 21.
1859 Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre) was born on December - 21.
1860 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah) was born on December - 21.