What Happened in December 1869

Historical Events

Dec 1 Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
Dec 2 Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects)
Dec 5 Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs), born in Muscatine, Iowa (d. 1937)
Dec 16 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)
Dec 16 Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
Dec 17 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer
Dec 19 Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer)
Dec 20 Charley Grapewin, American actor (The Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady), born in Xenia, Ohio (d. 1956)
Dec 22 Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (Richard Corey), born in Head Tide, Maine (d. 1935)
Dec 22 Dmitri Egorov, Russian-Soviet mathematician, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1931)
Dec 24 Henriette Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Women in Forest), born in Noordwijk, Netherlands (d. 1952)
Dec 26 Harry Redman, American composer, writer, and artist, born in Illinois (d. 1958)
Dec 29 Bill Howell, Australian cricketer (Australian bowler at turn of century), born in Penrith, New South Wales (d. 1940)
Dec 30 Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep (Lib)
Dec 30 Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist/humorist/professor

Dec 31 Henri Matisse, French impressionist painter (Odalisque), born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France (d. 1954)

Dec 6 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54
Dec 18 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer, dies at 40
Dec 24 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55
Dec 26 Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (blood pressure), dies at 72