Anniversaries

5th December 2013 (13 Years)

Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate, died.

6th December 1768 (258 Years)

The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

6th December 1917 (109 Years)

Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire.

6th December 1941 (85 Years)

WWII: Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbour.

6th December 1988 (38 Years)

Roy Orbison, singer of Pretty Woman, dies of heart attack at 52.

7th December 1817 (209 Years)

Vice admiral William Bligh, officer of the British Royal Navy and Capitan of the Bounty, died.

8th December 1793 (233 Years)

Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France, died.

8th December 1815 (211 Years)

Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel, German artist, is born.

8th December 1864 (162 Years)

Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist, sister of poet and diplomat Paul Claudel, was born. 160 years.

8th December 1864 (162 Years)

Camille Claudel, the French sculptor, was born.

8th December 1922 (104 Years)

Lucian Freud, German-born English artist, was born.

8th December 1978 (48 Years)

Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel, died.

8th December 1980 (46 Years)

John Lennon shot dead outside his New York apartment.

9th December 1717 (309 Years)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian and archaeologist, was born.

9th December 1899 (127 Years)

Jean de Brunhoff, writer and illustrator of the BarBar series, was born.

9th December 1916 (110 Years)

Kirk Douglas, American actor, producer, director, and author, was born.

10th December 1475 (551 Years)

Paolo Uccello, the Italian painter and mathematician, dies.

10th December 1915 (111 Years)

The one millionth Ford car is produced.

10th December 1928 (98 Years)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect, died.

10th December 1936 (90 Years)

Luigi Pirandello, Italian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate, died.

10th December 1936 (90 Years)

Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication.

10th December 1967 (59 Years)

Otis Ray Redding, American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout, died.

11th December 1890 (136 Years)

Mark Tobey, American abstract painter, was born.

11th December 1917 (109 Years)

WWI: General Edmund Allenby enters the Old City after British victory in the Battle of Jerusalem.

11th December 1918 (108 Years)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and Nobel Prize winner, critic of the communism, the Soviet Union and the Gulag camp system, was born.

12th December 1791 (235 Years)

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, second wife of Napoleon I and mother of his only heir, was born.

12th December 1863 (163 Years)

Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker, was born.

12th December 1915 (111 Years)

Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, is born.

12th December 1928 (98 Years)

Helen Frankenthaler, American painter and academic, was born.

13th December 1466 (560 Years)

Donatello, Italian painter and sculptor, died.

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