Events in History
- Dec 5 Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag
Event of Interest
Dec 5 John Thompson becomes the 4th Prime Minister of Canada.
Birthdays in History
Francisco Franco (1892-1975)
Dec 4 Spanish general and dictator (1936-75), born in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain
- Dec 6 Osbert Sitwell, English poet, writer (Out of the Flame), born in London, England (d. 1969)
- Dec 7 Stuart Davis, American modernist painter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)
- Dec 8 Herbert "Bert" Hinkler, Australian aviator who made first solo flight from England to Australia (1928), born in Bundaberg, Queensland (d. 1933)
- Dec 12 Herman Potočnik, Slovenian rocket engineer, born in Pula, Austria-Hungary (d. 1929)
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
Dec 15 American oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Dec 19 Gerald Nye, American politician and Republican US Senator from North Dakota (1925-1945), born in Hortonville, Wisconsin (d. 1971)
- Dec 21 Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet & writer, born in England, United Kingdom (d. 1980)
- Dec 25 Rebecca West [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author (Meaning of Treason), born in London (d. 1983)
- Dec 27 Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian Royal Flying Corps WWI flying ace, born in Brussels, Ontario (d. 1917)
Deaths in History
- Dec 1 Joseph Lippens, Belgian official in Congo, murdered at 37 during the Congo Arab war
- Dec 1 Lucius E. Polk, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 59
- Dec 2 Jay Gould, American railroad developer and speculator, dies at 56
- Dec 3 Afanasy Fet, Russian poet, dies at 71
- Dec 3 William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien, dies
Werner von Siemens (1816-1892)
Dec 6 German inventor (siemens electrical conductance unit) and industrialist (Siemens corporation), dies at 75
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