Famous Personalities Born In December - 21

1117  Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury was born on this day in history.   

1401  On this day in history birth of tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)   

1518  Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician was born on December - 21.   

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  On December - 21 birth of roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)   

1616  Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer was born on December - 21.   

1628  On December - 21 birth of samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer   

1639  Jean Racin, writer was born on December - 21.   

1714  On this day in history 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  On December - 21 birth of anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)   

1795  Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886) was born on this day in history.   

1800  On this day in history birth of barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876   

1804  Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80) was born on this day in history.   

1805  On this day in history birth of thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)   

1805  Thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869) was born on this day in history.   

1810  On December - 21 birth of ludwig Schuncke, composer   

1815  Thomas Couture, French painter/author was born on this day in history.   

1818  On this day in history birth of amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece   

1818  On December - 21 birth of lewis H Morgan, US, etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity)   

1823  On December - 21 birth of jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)   

1826  On December - 21 birth of ernst Pauer, composer   

1832  John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906 was born on December - 21.   

1840  Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan) was born on this day in history.   

1843  Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898) was born on December - 21.   

1848  On this day in history birth of edward Everett Rice, composer   

1849  On December - 21 birth of james Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal)   

1850  On this day in history birth of zdenek Fibich, composer   

1851  On December - 21 birth of thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)   

1853  On this day in history birth of isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)   

1859  On December - 21 birth of gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)   

1860  On December - 21 birth of henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah)   

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0072  On this day in history death of thomas the Apostle   

0918  On December - 21 conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies   

1295  Death of Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221) on this day in history.   

1308  On December - 21 henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies   

1375  On December - 21 giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies   

1504  On this day in history death of bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)   

1549  On December - 21 death of marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)   

1579  Death of Vicente Masip, Spanish painter on this day in history.