Events in History
Event of Interest
Dec 3 Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Willis Carrier
Event of Interest
Dec 14 Norwegian Roald Amundsen's expedition is the 1st to each the South Pole
Roald Amundsen
Election of Interest
Dec 29 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China
Sun Yat-sen
- Dec 29 Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty
Nobel Prize
Dec 31 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
Marie Curie
Birthdays in History
- Dec 5 Alfred Manessier, French painter (leaded windows)
- Dec 6 Alfred James Broomhall, Methodist missionary
- Dec 9 Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
- Dec 11 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist (Palace Walk, Sugar Street) and first Arabic writer to win a Nobel Prize (1988), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2006)
- Dec 11 Vincent Henry Kemp, poet
Kenneth Patchen
Dec 13 Kenneth Patchen, American poet and novelist (Cloth of the Tempest), born in Niles, Ohio (d. 1972)
Kenneth Patchen
- Dec 13 Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and 1989 Nobel laureate for his contributions to econometrics, born in Skedsmo, Norway (d. 1999)
- Dec 14 Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader/founder (Federal Trust)
- Dec 14 Hans von Ohain, German-American aerospace engineer (d. 1998)
- Dec 15 Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991)
- Dec 18 Helen Vlachos, journalist
- Dec 18 Jules Dassin, Middletown CT, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday)
- Dec 20 Hortense Calisher, American novelist (Arts & Letters 1967), born in NYC, New York
- Dec 22 Grote Reber, American astronomer (1st parabolic radio telescope)
- Dec 23 Niels Jerne, immunologist
- Dec 24 Eric Briault, educationalist
- Dec 24 Malcolm MacEwen, writer
- Dec 25 Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
- Dec 26 Steve Kordek, pinball machine designer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2012)
- Dec 31 Dal Stivens, Australian novelist (d. 1997)