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1903 - Birth of John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957) 1919 - Death of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) 1944 - Birth of Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate; 1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia; 2001 - Death of Samuel A. Goldblith, American food ...
December 17: Pan American Aviation Day and Wright Brothers Day in the United States; International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Memorial to victims killed during the 1970 Polish protests 942 – William Longsword of Normandy was ambushed and assassinated by supporters of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders , while the two were at a peace ...
December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) ... 1983 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (b. 1919)
December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) ... 1860 – Joseph Cook, English-born Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2014 – Luise Rainer, German-born American-British actress (b. 1910)
December 27 is the 361st day of the year ... English-born American novelist and essayist (d. 2011) 1931 – Scotty Moore, American guitarist and songwriter ...
December 29 is the 363rd day of the year ... Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor (d. 2024) [84] 1923 – Morton Estrin, American pianist and educator (d. 2017) [85]
December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) ... two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States. ...