Historical Events Dec 9 Great Britain & Netherlands sign military treaty Famous Deaths Dec 2 Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695) Dec 11 Edmund Curll, English bookseller who quarrelled with poet Alexander Pope (b. ca. 1675) 1746 History by Year 1748 Famous Living People by Age 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 80-89 Over 90