Events in History
Birthdays in History
Georges Seurat
Dec 2 Georges Seurat, French post-impressionist painter (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte), born in Paris, France (d. 1891)
Georges Seurat
John Rushworth Jellicoe
Dec 5 John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British Admiral of the Fleet, born in Southampton (d. 1935)
John Rushworth Jellicoe
- Dec 12 Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
- Dec 15 Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto)
- Dec 17 Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
- Dec 20 Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher
- Dec 21 Gustave Kahn, French poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
- Dec 26 Johan F van Bemmelen, Dutch zoologist
- Dec 26 William Stephens, U.S. political figure (d. 1944)
- Dec 28 John W Fortescue, military historian
- Dec 29 Venustiano Carranza, Mexican revolutionary and President of Mexico (1915-20), born in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, Mexico (d. 1920)
Deaths in History
John Brown
Dec 2 John Brown, American abolitionist and revolutionary (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59
John Brown
- Dec 8 Thomas De Quincey, English writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater), dies at 74
Wilhelm Grimm
Dec 16 Wilhelm Grimm, writer, dies at 73
Wilhelm Grimm