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Today's Anniversary – Tuesday, December 23


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Births

* 1979 Carson Cistulli American poet and journalist.
* 1978 Jodie Marsh English media personality, bodybuilder and glamour model.
* 1971 Corey Haim Canadian actor, best known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol.
* 1968 Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Social documentary photographer whose work follows in the tradition of "concerned photography".
* 1955 Carol Ann Duffy Scottish poet, playwright, freelance writer and current Poet Laureate, the first woman to hold that title.
* 1952 William Bill Kristol American neoconservative commentator.
* 1944 Wesley Clark American politician, a retired four-star general of the U S Army, and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
* 1921 John H. Disher American aeronautical engineer and NASA manager.
* 1899 Aldo Capitini Italian philosopher, poet, political activist, anti-Fascist and educator.
* 1896 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Italian novelist, short-story writer and critic.
* 1874 Harry Graham English writer.
* 1804 Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve French literary critic, poet and novelist.

Deaths

† 2000 Victor Borge Born B?rge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane.
† 1999 John P. (diplomat) Davies American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient.
† 1999 John Paton Davies American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient.
† 1992 Vincent Fourcade French-American interior designer and the business and life partner of Robert Denning.
† 1972 Abraham Joshua Heschel Polish-born American rabbi, considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century.
† 1959 E. F. L. Wood Known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician.
† 1953 Lavrentiy Beria Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Stalin.
† 1948 Hideki Tojo General in the Imperial Japanese Army, a nationalist thinker, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan.
† 1948 Koki Hirota Japanese diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937.
† 1948 Iwane Matsui General of the Japanese Imperial Army and the commander of the expeditionary forces sent to China in World War II He was sentenced to death by hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for being responsible for the Nanking Massacre.
† 1948 Seishiro Itagaki General in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and a War Minister.
† 1940 Eddie August Schneider Set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930.
† 1901 William Ellery (poet) Channing Transcendentalist poet and nephew of the Unitarian preacher William Ellery Channing.
† 1873 Sarah Grimke Abolitionist, attorney, judge, and feminist.
† 1834 Thomas Malthus English demographer and political economist best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth.
† 1802 Camillo Federici Italian dramatist and actor.
† 1631 Michael Drayton English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.
† 1568 Roger Ascham English humanist scholar and a writer on education and archery.
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