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Today's Anniversary – Friday, December 26


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Births

* 1963 Lars Ulrich Drummer of American heavy metal band Metallica.
* 1956 David Sedaris American essayist and radio contributor.
* 1926 Earle Brown American composer.
* 1921 Steve Allen American humorist, writer, composer, and general entertainer.
* 1894 Jean Toomer American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
* 1893 Mao Zedong Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1943 until his death.
* 1891 Henry Miller American writer.
* 1872 Norman Angell British economist, lecturer, writer, Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933; born Ralph Norman Angell Lane.
* 1867 Julien Benda French philosopher and novelist.
* 1838 William Winwood Reade Scottish philosopher, historian, anthropologist and explorer born in Perthshire, Scotland.
* 1820 Dion Boucicault Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.
* 1762 Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis Swiss poet.
* 1716 Thomas Gray English poet, classical scholar, and professor of history at Cambridge University.

Deaths

† 2006 Jerry Ford Also known as Jerry Ford, was the 38th President of the United States.
† 2006 Gerald Ford Also known as Jerry Ford, was the 38th President of the United States.
† 2006 Martin David Kruskal American mathematician and physicist.
† 2005 Kerry Packer Australian billionaire media magnate.
† 1999 Curtis Mayfield American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.
† 1974 Jack Benny Born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor.
† 1972 Harry S. Truman Thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as vice president, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D Roosevelt.
† 1950 James (author) Stephens Irish novelist, broadcaster and poet, now best known for his fantasy novel The Crock of Gold.
† 1930 Kin (Frank McKinney Hubbard) Hubbard American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist.
† 1880 Edwin Hubbell Chapin Universalist minister who became famed as an orator in the 1840s.
† 1812 Joel Barlow American poet and diplomat.
† 1803 Giancarlo Passeroni Italian poet.
† 1771 Claude Adrien Helvetius French philosopher and littιrateur.
† 1530 Babur Descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur; Babur was a military adventurer, a soldier of distinction, a poet, diarist and statesman.
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